February 23, 2021 at 12:40pm
FIU’s Global Health Consortium, the Office of the President and the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work will hold a gathering of world health leaders on Friday, Feb. 26, to address critical issues around COVID-19 vaccines. More than 3,300 people have already registered for the online program.
The meeting brings together authorities from the Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization, the National School of Tropical Medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, Israel, Africa, Brazil and Switzerland as well as FIU. The goal: to share across borders and organizations the most impactful information about stemming the coronavirus.
Thuc Nhi Nguyen, and it’s
Wednesday, Feb. 17. Thank you to those who wrote emails and welcomed me to the newsletter after my debut yesterday. I appreciate your kind words as we continue this journey together. As a note for those wondering, my first name is actually Thuc Nhi, pronounced “Too-k Knee.”
With the extended introduction done, here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond.
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U.S. tops 26 million COVID cases as blizzard conditions hamper vaccinations in Northeast MarketWatch 2/1/2021
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE
The global tally of confirmed cases of the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 climbed above 103 million on Monday with the U.S. accounting for a quarter of that number, as a snowstorm created blizzard conditions across the Northeast and shuttered vaccination sites.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday that he did not want seniors, who are first in line for jabs, to drive to vaccine appointments during the heavy snowfall. At least six other states Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia were also halting vaccinations, USA Today reported.
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For years, concerns have been raised that previous flu vaccination seems to increase patients risk of contracting more severe pandemic illness. This occurred during the 2008 to 2009 flu season, when prior vaccination with the seasonal flu vaccine was associated with an increased risk of H1N1 swine flu during spring/summer 2009 in Canada.
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A January 2020 study published in the journal
Vaccine also found people were more likely to get some form of coronavirus infection if they had been vaccinated against influenza during the 2017 to 2018 flu season.
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Compared to unvaccinated individuals, those who had received a seasonal flu shot were 36% more likely to contract unspecified coronavirus infection (it did not specifically mention SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19) and 51% more likely to contract human metapneumovirus (hMPV) infection, which has symptoms similar to COVID-19.