Hereâs what you need to know about the side effects from the coronavirus vaccine
By Martin Finucane Globe Staff,Updated December 18, 2020, 5:26 p.m.
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Physician Alister Martin received one of the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine from RN Jennifer Lisciotti at Massachusetts General Hospital on Wednesday.Craig F. Walker/Globe Staff
A coronavirus vaccine from Cambridge-based Moderna was expected to be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration on Friday, a week after the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was approved.
The initial rollout of vaccines has been a spark of hope for a nation wracked by the pandemic. But lately some stories have emerged of a handful of possible adverse reactions.
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Should You Bank Your Babyâs Cord Blood?
The stem cells in this vital fluid could save someoneâs life, but it probably wonât be your childâs.
Credit.Jun Cen
Dec. 18, 2020
To bank or not to bank â that is the question I found myself reckoning with around six months into my pregnancy, when advertisements for private cord blood banks seemed to be popping up everywhere.
âProtect
what matters most,â a poster in my obstetricianâs office said. âBuild your family a healthy future,â an ad on my Instagram feed prompted.
At the time, I had no idea what cord blood was, or why Iâd want to pay some company hundreds of dollars per year to hold onto it. But didnât I want to protect my family? I was forced to pay attention.
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Accounting for recent population aging is critical for estimating non-COVID-19 excess deaths in the U.S.
Estimates of excess mortality during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic provide an important metric for quantifying deaths due to COVID-19 as well as those indirectly caused by COVID-
19. To evaluate the excess deaths in 2020 without consideration of changes to the underlying population structure can result in overestimated excess deaths. The growth of the U.S. population, particularly in older age groups, means a higher expected number of deaths in 2020 from all causes, even in the absence of COVID-19.
Researchers from the National Cancer Institute used data from the CDC National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau to estimate excess mortality in the period March through August 2020. By accounting for the recent aging of the population, they found the number of excess non-COVID-19 deaths was 44,600, which is 65 percent fewer than estimated