Almost 1 million kids age 5-11 jabbed in first days of vaccine rollout
Greater than 900,000 children ages 5-11 could have been jabbed by day’s finish with their first COVID-19 vaccination shot in lower than per week because the pictures turned out there to the age group, the White Home stated Wednesday.
Jeff Zients, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 response coordinator, stated one other 700,000 pictures have been scheduled in pharmacies alone for the elementary school-aged children.
“Mother and father and households throughout the nation are respiratory big sighs of reduction, and we’re simply getting began,” Zients stated at a White Home briefing on the rollout.
Packaging and transport of the vaccines, that are given in smaller doses than these for adults, couldn’t start till the Meals and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization on Oct. 29. A lot work must be performed – the U.S. has about 28 million kids ages 5-11. Over 20,000 vaccinations websites, from colleges to pediatric docs’ places of work, are up and operating and extra are coming quickly, Zients stated.
It is not clear what impression vaccine hesitancy could have on the rollout. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, strongly endorsed vaccination for the age group.
“COVID-19 poses a big danger to our youngsters,” she stated on the briefing. “Whereas kids stay extra resilient than adults to this virus, they nonetheless stay in danger, and with the assistance of vaccines we will forestall COVID-19 and plenty of different illnesses that have been as soon as deadly.”
Additionally within the information:
►Training Secretary Miguel Cardona advised CBS’s “Face the Nation” that given the widespread availability of vaccines and improved therapies towards COVID-19, there “ought to be no need for remote or hybrid learning.”
►The NFL fined Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers for violating COVID-19 protocols. The league performed a evaluation of Rodgers’ and the Packers’ actions associated to protocol after the quarterback examined constructive for COVID final week.
📈At the moment’s numbers: The U.S. has recorded greater than 46.6 million confirmed COVID-19 instances and greater than 757,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. World totals: Greater than 251 million instances and 5 million deaths. Greater than 194.1 million People – 58.5% of the inhabitants – are totally vaccinated, according to the CDC.
📘 What we’re studying: Are you vaxxed? Some families face fraught divide over jabs.
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Vaccines are secure, largely efficient on most cancers sufferers, examine finds
Most cancers sufferers do not generate fairly as robust an immune response from COVID-19 vaccines, however they’re higher off getting them, particularly the mRNA ones. And booster pictures assist.
These are among the fundamental conclusions of a brand new examine into the safety supplied by the vaccines to people being handled for most cancers, who’re particularly susceptible to the coronavirus as a result of their immune techniques are compromised.
The vaccines are secure, and their effectiveness on most cancers sufferers is simply modestly lowered in comparison with wholesome people, in line with a examine of 1,001 sufferers with totally different types of most cancers on the Massachusetts Common Hospital Most cancers Heart. The report was printed Wednesday within the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
“Chemotherapy modestly lowered immune responses, however not as a lot as sufferers and clinicians initially feared,” stated co-lead investigator Dr. Vivek Naranbhai, a medical fellow on the hospital and the Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute.
Most cancers sufferers had a stronger immune response to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines – each of which use mMRA know-how – than to the Johnson and Johnson shot. Nevertheless, all three figured to guard from extreme illness, and all have been enhanced by boosters.
Sleep issues linked to increased fee of COVID hospitalization, demise, examine finds
Individuals with sure sleep issues have extra extreme outcomes from COVID-19, together with a 31% increased fee of hospitalization and demise, in line with a examine printed Wednesday in JAMA Community Open. Cleveland Clinic researchers analyzed knowledge from practically 360,000 sufferers who examined for COVID-19, of which 5,400 had an out there sleep examine file. They discovered these with sleep-disordered respiratory and sleep-related hypoxia had a worse medical prognosis from COVID-19. The examine managed for different underlying circumstances corresponding to weight problems, coronary heart and lung illness, most cancers and smoking.
“If certainly sleep-related hypoxia interprets to worse COVID-19 outcomes, danger stratification methods ought to be applied to prioritize early allocation of COVID-19 remedy to this subgroup of sufferers,” stated Dr. Cinthya Peña Orbea, examine writer and sleep specialist on the Cleveland Clinic’s Sleep Problems Heart.
Whereas these sufferers had worse outcomes from COVID-19, researchers discovered they didn’t have an elevated danger of growing the illness.
– Adrianna Rodriguez
Florida county mourns 9 virus deaths in a single sheriff’s division
A bell solemnly tolled 9 instances in Broward County, Florida, at a memorial service Tuesday for sheriff’s division workers who died from the coronavirus. Sheriff Gregory Tony was flanked by an honor guard as American flags have been positioned within the palms of the victims’ kin.
“We didn’t lose one, two, three – we misplaced 9,” the sheriff stated.
Tony stated greater than half the the division’s 5,600 workers have been uncovered, and 32% – 1,800 workers – have contracted the illness, which has killed greater than 60,000 Floridians and greater than 750,000 People. The county doesn’t require workers to be vaccinated, however gives a $500 bonus for individuals who present proof of vaccination. Unvaccinated workers face a biweekly surcharge of $20 towards the extra price of medical health insurance in addition to weekly COVID testing.
Pfizer CEO labels those that unfold vaccine misinformation as ‘criminals’
“Professionals” who purposely unfold misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines are criminals, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says. In an interview with the Atlantic Council suppose tank, Bourla stated the world has turn out to be divided into two teams: those that are vaccinated and those that should not. Each teams, he stated, are pushed by concern – vaccinated persons are afraid of contracting COVID-19 and unvaccinated persons are “skeptical” of the vaccine and “mad that persons are urgent them to get it. These I perceive. They’re superb folks, first rate folks.”
However Bourla has much less empathy or understanding for what he stated are the “small” quantity of people that have knowingly circulated misinformation. These folks can’t be certified simply as dangerous folks, he stated, including: “They’re criminals. They’ve actually price tens of millions of lives.”
The interview was live-streamed on-line and the replay is available to watch here.
3,158 folks claimed damages from COVID remedy. None bought paid.
Greater than 3,100 claims alleging injuries from COVID-19 vaccines and treatments have been filed with the federal Countermeasures Damage Compensation Program throughout the pandemic. Of the three,158 claims, 1,357 allege accidents or deaths from the COVID-19 vaccine. Thus far, not one of the claims have been paid, and solely two vaccine instances have been rejected. Only one COVID-19 declare has been deemed eligible for compensation, however program staffers are reviewing allowable bills. That leaves greater than 3,000 instances nonetheless underneath evaluation. Read more here.
“We work to course of claims as expeditiously as attainable,” stated Christy Choi, a spokeswoman for the Well being Sources and Companies Administration, which runs the compensation program. “About 90% of claims are awaiting medical information for evaluation.”
– Ken Alltucker
Fox Information viewers extra more likely to consider misinformation, examine says
Individuals who belief Fox Information Channel and different media shops that attraction to conservatives usually tend to consider misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines than those that primarily go elsewhere for information, a study has found. Viewers who belief info from CNN, MSNBC, NPR, community information and native TV information have been much less more likely to be misled, in line with the Kaiser Household Basis examine launched this week. However the examine took no stand on whether or not the protection was chargeable for viewer beliefs.
“It could be as a result of the people who find themselves self-selecting these organizations consider (the misinformation) entering into,” stated Liz Hamel, vp and director of public opinion and survey analysis at Kaiser.
San Francisco police officer dies whereas on depart after failing to get vaccinated
A police officer who was positioned on depart for lacking San Francisco’s deadline to be inoculated has died after being laid low with COVID-19, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Officer Jack Nyce, 46, examined constructive on Nov. 2 and died Saturday at a hospital in Manteca, his spouse, Melissa Nyce, advised the newspaper. The Chronicle stated Melissa Nyce declined to say whether or not her husband was vaccinated. Nevertheless, the vp of the Police Officers Affiliation, Lt. Tracy McCray, stated Jack Nyce was on a 30-day stint of paid administrative depart as a result of he had not obtained the vaccination required by the town.
The Police Division stated final week that as many as 70 sworn and civilian staff had been positioned on depart for not assembly a Nov. 1 vaccination deadline. As of Nov. 2, 97.5% of division workers have been totally vaccinated.
Honesty is finest: Ideas for speaking to your kids about getting vaccinated
For those who’re taking your youngster to get vaccinated towards COVID-19, consultants say there are approaches that may make it simpler for each you and your youngster. It begins with perhaps the oldest rule within the e-book: Honesty is one of the best coverage. Adam Keating, a common pediatrician with Cleveland Clinic Kids’s, advised USA TODAY that oldsters can kind a “technique” to speak concerning the COVID-19 vaccine – and vaccines generally – with their kids.
“Anytime you are doing a vaccine with a child, it is value having a dialog beforehand and a method earlier than they get the vaccine,” Keating stated.
“Usually, my choice is that this can be a dialog that the child has time to arrange for beforehand, and so they do not study it 30 seconds earlier than it occurs,” he stated. “That does not give the child management over the vaccine. And a lot of the concern and the ache that occurs with vaccines is concerning the lack of management and the dearth of time to arrange.” Read more here.
– Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY
GOP needs Kansas to maneuver towards vaccine mandates this month
Republican lawmakers in Kansas are pushing to enact new state legal guidelines earlier than Thanksgiving to guard staff financially in the event that they refuse to adjust to federal mandates to get vaccinated towards COVID-19. High GOP legislative leaders referred to as Tuesday for lawmakers to have a particular session to contemplate proposals making it simpler for staff to assert spiritual exemptions from vaccine mandates and offering unemployment advantages to staff who’re fired for refusing to get inoculated. Each proposals emerged from a legislative committee assembly Tuesday and are available in response to vaccine mandates introduced in September by President Joe Biden.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly final week went public together with her opposition to the Democratic president’s mandates, but additionally stated she did not suppose a particular session is warranted. Lawmakers can power one if two-thirds of them signal a petition, and Republicans have sufficiently big majorities. Lawmakers adjourned for the 12 months in Could and are not scheduled to reconvene till January.
NFL clarifies COVID protocols after Aaron Rodgers ordeal
The NFL and its gamers union agreed to modifications to the COVID-19 protocols and knowledgeable groups in a memo, however there have been no adjustments to the necessities about masks use for unvaccinated gamers, however somewhat a reminder of once they apply.
“Golf equipment are reminded that any particular person who isn’t totally vaccinated is required to put on a masks always when contained in the membership facility. This consists of whereas giving media interviews or taking part in media briefings performed indoors both on the membership facility or on the stadium on recreation day,” the memo learn.
Inexperienced Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ lack of masks use at information conferences made this a renewed subject of scrutiny final week after he examined constructive for COVID-19.
– Mike Jones, USA TODAY
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