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By Dr. Stanley Plotkin The press has reported that people in Texas are threatening to secede from the union. I think this is a great idea. We could do fine without the noise, exaggeration and bloviation.   In fact, it might even be better if Texas took with it some of the Southern states still dedicated to Trump. We might lose Florida, but money brought by tourists would probably convince that former state to welcome Americans.  Dr. Stanley Plotkin  Doylestown  Do Not Sell My Info / Cookie Policy

Should kids be part of COVID-19 vaccine trials? Some pediatricians say yes Much of the debate centers on two issues: the degree of harm COVID-19 causes children, and the extent to which children are spreading the virus to their friends, teachers, parents and grandparents. Written By: Arthur Allen / Kaiser Health News | 7:00 am, Dec. 18, 2020 × Colleen Teevan of Hartford Hospital prepares one of Connecticut's first COVID-19 vaccinations before administering it at Hartford Hospital Monday morning, Dec. 14, 2020. Mark Mirko / Tribune News Service If clinical trials for CO...

By Arthur Allen Tuesday, December 15, 2020 (Kaiser News) -- If clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines aren’t expanded soon to include children, it’s unlikely that even kids in their teens will be vaccinated in time for the next school year. The hurdle is that COVID vaccine makers are only in the early stages of testing their products on children. The Pfizer vaccine authorized for use by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday was greenlighted only for people ages 16 and up. Moderna just started trials for 12- to 17-year-olds for its vaccine, likely to be authorized later this month. It ...

Pediatricians want kids to be part of COVID-19 vaccine trials Kaiser Health News © Provided by Roll Call A syringe is filled with the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 at Backus Hospital in Norwich, Connecticut, on Dec. 15, 2020. By Arthur Allen, Kaiser Health News If clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines aren’t expanded soon to include children, it’s unlikely that even kids in their teens will be vaccinated in time for the next school year. The hurdle is that vaccine makers are only in the early stages of testing their products on children. The Pfizer vaccine authorized for use...

December 15, 2020 Creating vaccines, experts were careful to remind us at the beginning of the pandemic, takes time. It took two decades for researchers to develop a vaccine for polio, in 1953, and even longer to get a chickenpox vaccine, in 1995. The vaccine for hepatitis B took 12 years, while HPV took 15. In more recent years the vaccine development timeline has been shortened and in some cases is now less than five years—the vaccine for SARS, for instance, was in development for two years. That was the timeline experts were expecting for Covid-19, too—but surpassing even the most opti...