(Reuters) – With COVID-19 vaccination coverage incomplete among residents and staff at long-term care facilities, researchers have come up with a way to limit transmission in those settings: keep unvaccinated staff away from unvaccinated patients. In a report posted on medRxiv ahead of peer review, they advise based on their computer models that unvaccinated healthcare […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – German pharmacies have stopped issuing digital COVID-19 vaccination certificates after hackers created passes from fake outlets, the industry association said on Thursday, the latest blow to the inoculation drive. Germans who have been fully vaccinated are entitled to a certificate which allows them more freedoms, especially to travel. Pharmacies and vaccination centres […]

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. About half of unvaccinated or partially vaccinated Americans aren’t concerned about the contagious Delta variant, according to a new CBS/YouGov poll. Among unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people, 48% said they were “personally concerned” about the Delta variant, as compared with 72% […]

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Israeli officials are reporting a 30% decrease in the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and mild to moderate cases of COVID-19. At the same time, protection against hospitalization and severe illness remains robust. The country’s Ministry of […]

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study highlights the importance of timely administration of the second dose of SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) on disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD) therapy. Researchers in Switzerland report that the kinetics of the vaccine-induced humoral immune response differs between patients with RA who are taking […]

(Reuters Health) – The consent forms used for the Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trials were written at a higher reading level than that of the typical American, as well as being crammed with scientific jargon and being overly detailed and long, a new study suggests. An analysis of the documents, using Microsoft Word tools, found […]

BENGALURU, India (Reuters) – Many more men in India have received COVID-19 vaccines than women, government data showed on Tuesday, highlighting gender disparity in the country’s immunisation drive that has also disadvantaged the rural population. India has partly or fully vaccinated about 101 million men, nearly 17% more than women. Men account for 54% of […]

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African athletes due to participate in this year’s Tokyo Olympics will receive COVID-19 shots during a vaccination rollout that has so far prioritised the elderly and frontline workers, the country’s medicine authority said on Tuesday. Tokyo is due to host the Games from July 23 to Aug. 8 after they were […]

MONTIGNY-LE-BRETONNEUX, France (Reuters) – Clement Bosko, a 31-year-old Frenchman who works in train maintenance, this week scored a lucky ticket: an appointment to get a COVID-19 vaccination. “I want to go on holiday this summer, so I said to myself: ‘I’ll get myself vaccinated as soon as possible,’” he said on Friday after receiving his […]

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Dr. Michelle Rockwell lost a pregnancy in December and shared her heartache with her 30,000 Instagram followers. Weeks later, she received the COVID-19 vaccine and posted about that, too. By February, Rockwell was getting past the grief and finally starting to […]