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News Articles: vaccination

U.S. infectious disease experts fear that a winter surge of respiratory illness — like the one that overloaded emergency rooms with COVID-19 patients in January 2021 — could yet materialize this winter, with several circulating viruses wreaking havoc. So far, though, it looks like early peaks of RSV and the flu are receding.

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RSV recedes and flu peaks as a new COVID variant shoots 'up like a rocket'

RSV and the flu appear to be receding in the U.S., but COVID is on the rise, new data suggests, driven by holiday gatherings and an even more transmissible omicron subvariant that has become dominant.

January 06, 2023
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By:
  • Rob Stein
People in line at airport

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Quarantine didn't weaken our immunity. But here's why experts encourage annual shots against viruses

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say 56% of Georgians are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. But only a quarter got the updated variant-targeting shots this flu season.  

December 22, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
A pharmacist gives a girl a bandaid after a vaccine shot

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  • Children's Health

High rates of respiratory illness in Georgia are filling ERs with sick children

Masking over the last two years slowed the spread of respiratory illnesses like influenza and RSV. But now, emergency rooms are filling with pediatric patients. 

October 18, 2022
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Minda Dentler handcycling at mile 32 of The Kona Ironman in Hawaii, 2013. She's the first female wheelchair athlete to complete the Ironman World Championship. When she was an infant, her legs were paralyzed by polio. "I wish all people who may be on the fence about vaccination could really meet me," she says. "I'm a reminder to families that they should vaccinate their children."

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  • Global Health

Striving to outrace polio: What's it like living with the disease

As polio makes a comeback, Minda Dentler reflects on her life with the disease. Paralyzed as an infant in India, she's gone on to become a champion wheelchair triathlete and an immunization advocate.

August 29, 2022
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
Patricia Neves (left) and Ana Paula Ano Bom take a break at the institute in Rio de Janeiro where they work. The two scientists say they've been inseparable since they met in college. Now their friendship has made it possible to launch a remarkable partnership to make mRNA vaccines accessible to the world.

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  • Global Health

These Brazilian besties are inventing an mRNA vaccine as a gift to the world

Pfizer and Moderna have refused to divulge details of how to make their cutting-edge COVID shots. Here's what two scientists — and longtime best friends — are doing about it.

July 13, 2022
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By:
  • Nurith Aizenman
Bibb County middle school student Sade Veal gets her first dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine at a back to school event sponsored by Bibb County Schools in 2021.

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  • Health Care

A Georgia bill to head off COVID vaccine 'passports' lands very wide of the mark

Although sponsors say it's aimed at preventing government overreach on COVID-19 vaccinations, a bill filed this week in the Georgia Senate would end the longstanding schedule of mandatory vaccinations for school-children.

January 26, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Man receiving vaccine

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  • Health Care

No break from COVID: Metro Atlanta medical officials urge vaccinations

Georgia recently has set records in numbers of infections reported daily. The current surge, ignited by the Omicron variant, has generated an extraordinary spread of the disease, Dr. Kathleen Toomey, Georgia’s Public Health commissioner, told state lawmakers earlier Thursday. 

January 21, 2022
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  • Andy Miller
A resident receives a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a health center in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Jan. 13. This week, Indonesia started a program to give booster shots to the elderly and people at risk of severe disease.

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  • Global Health

Booster longevity: Data reveals how long a third shot protects

Researchers in the U.K. have the first estimates for how long a third shot of the Pfizer vaccine will last. The findings are mixed.

January 20, 2022
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  • Michaeleen Doucleff
Licensed practical nurse Yokasta Castro, of Warwick, R.I., draws a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine into a syringe. The vaccines have now been linked to minor changes in menstruation, but are still considered safe.

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  • Health

COVID vaccines may briefly change your menstrual cycle, but you should still get one

The new research affirms what many individuals had reported. But it also shows the changes to the menstrual cycle are mostly minor and brief, more akin to a sore arm than a dangerous reaction.

January 07, 2022
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  • Geoff Brumfiel
Amariel Yehudah walks his dog Draco in downtown Sparta, the Hancock County seat, in May 2020.

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  • Health Care

Hancock County reaches a grim COVID milestone. ‘I feel the pain,’ says county coroner

One out of every 100 people in Hancock County, Georgia, has been killed by COVID-19.

January 05, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Cali Bell pretends to give her brother Calvin Bell a giant COVID-19 shot at a vaccine clinic in New Orleans, with some help from Louisiana Region One medical director Shantel Hébert-Magee.

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  • Children's Health

As kids return to school across the South, one major city is making them get vaccinated first

As kids return to school across the South, one major city is making them get vaccinated first.

January 04, 2022
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By:
  • Shalina Chatlani
A Walgreens pharmacist prepares a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.

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  • Health

Omicron is surging in Georgia. A booster trial participant says the vaccine's saving her from worse

As people begin to travel and gather for the holidays, experts are warning of a fifth wave of COVID-19 cases. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the omicron variant now accounts for most of the new coronavirus cases in Georgia.

December 21, 2021
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  • Ellen Eldridge
A woman receives a Pfizer vaccination booster shot from a nurse in Los Angeles. California Department of Public Health officials say that no fully vaccinated adult should be denied a COVID-19 booster shot in the state.

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  • Health

All adults can get a COVID vaccine booster in California, not just those CDC listed

Nearly 14% of all fully vaccinated adults 18 and older across the state have received a booster shot, according to CDC.

November 11, 2021
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
UGA campus with vaccine sign

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  • Health

Georgia's top federal contracting universities opt for some vaccine mandates after all

In a statement to students, faculty and staff, UGA President Jere Morehead and other members of the university’s leadership warned “please be aware that the federal government has defined covered employees and covered contractor workplaces broadly.”

October 27, 2021
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  • Ross Williams
A man holds his vaccination reminder card after having received his first shot at a pop-up vaccination site next to Maximo Gomez Park, also known as Domino Park, Monday, May 3, 2021, in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami.

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  • Health

Georgia Today: The Campaign to Vaccinate Georgia’s Latino Communities

With 44% of its population fully vaccinated, Georgia is running far behind the rest of the nation. For the state's Latino community, a population that has been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, vaccination rates are even lower. The Rev. Irma Guerra, a Mexican immigrant and minister at Christ Church Episcopal in Norcross, has used her platform to be a vaccine evangelizer and to dispel some of the misinformation about the vaccine through social media, her pulpit and going door to door. 

 

 

September 24, 2021
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  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jahi Whitehead
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