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Guidance says strong population-level immunity due to infection and vaccination means boosters have less impact

The Food and Drug Administration appears poised to make available the COVID-19 vaccines that target omicron as a second booster for people with weak immune systems and those ages 65 and older.

The World Health Organization has tailored its COVID-19 vaccination recommendations for a new phase of the pandemic, suggesting that healthy children and adolescents may not necessarily need a shot but older, high-risk groups should get a booster between 6 to 12 months after their last vaccine. The UN agency said…

The contact tracing app has allowed people to enter a positive Covid test result and keep track of how many days they have left to self-isolate

It was based on 860,000 patients across the world. The post Being vaccinated halves risk of long COVID: study appeared first on Talker.

The Department of Medical Sciences is looking for the “bad” gene that makes some people prone to serious and repeated Covid-19 infections and the good gene that seems to leave others immune.

LOS ANGELES — The government is ready to declare COVID-19 over: The nationwide state of emergency is set to end on May 11. In California, the state of emergency concluded in February. Johns Hopkins University shut down its nationwide COVID-19 data tracking this month.

"We are making these changes now based on best available evidence in relation to managing Covid-19"

Exclusive: Wind-down of NHS contact-tracing app part of drive to ‘learn to live’ with coronavirus