Pfizer expects to hike U.S. COVID vaccine price to $110-130 per dose
NEW YORK — Pfizer expects to roughly quadruple the price of its COVID-19 vaccine to about $110 to $130 per dose after the United States government’s current purchase program expires, Pfizer executive Angela Lukin said on Thursday. Lukin said she expects the vaccine – currently provided for free to all by the government – will […]
CDC: Tampa Bay area and most of Florida under ‘high risk’ for COVID-19
Experts say cases are plateauing about 10,000 per day but may be higher due to unreported at-home positive tests. TAMPA, Fla. — The majority of Florida is still at high risk for COVID-19 transmission, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and all of Tampa Bay is under that same […]
Bay Area doctor stresses need for new COVID vaccine as experts set expectations for efficacy rate
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Breakthrough infections are becoming more commonplace in the community, mostly due to COVID’s ability to mutate and change. As a result, experts across the country are setting a lower expectation of vaccine efficacy. As the Bay Area celebrated Independence Day, it’s safe to say we all wish we were a nation independent from […]
CDC: Listeria outbreak linked to Florida – CBS Miami
MIAMI – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said a specific food item has not yet been identified as the source of a listeria outbreak. They said that most of the sick people in this outbreak live in or traveled to Florida about a month before they got sick. The CDC said one person had […]
Another 6,529 COVID Cases Reported in LA County
Another 6,529 COVID-19 infections were reported in Los Angeles County in the lastest data, along with nine more deaths. Meanwhile, the number of COVID-positive patients in Los Angeles County hospitals increased by 32 people to 779, according to the latest state figures. Of those patients, 77 were being treated in intensive care, up from 68 […]
New Omicron subvariant swamping the U.S. escapes immunity from vaccination and previous infections, new studies say
Scientists have found that the newly dominant Omicron subvariants, BA.4 and BA.5, are evading vaccine and infection-acquired immunity. The subvariants recently caused a fresh wave of infections in South Africa and are pushing the U.K. to the brink of another wave of the disease. CDC data showed that BA.5 recently became the dominant subvariant […]
COVID vaccine: Families camp out at Bloomingdale pharmacy to get kids under 5 vaccinated
BLOOMINGDALE, Ill. (WLS) — As the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations for the last group to get approval, infants, toddlers and preschoolers, began in the Chicago area, locations in the suburbs and the city are helping get shots into little arms. Tears from a little one were hard to watch. But in this case, tears […]
Omicron Hit Rural America Harder Than Cities
The omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in late 2021 and early 2022 spread like a grass fire in America’s densely populated cities but led to higher rates of death in rural counties where vaccinations are lagging. The latest study by the University of Cincinnati, published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine, revealed striking disparities in health care […]
Lives Cut Short: COVID-19’s Heavy Burden on Older Latinos
The coronavirus pandemic has eaten away at the Latino edge in life expectancy in staggering fashion, and taken a disproportionate toll on older members of the community compared with whites. LOS ANGELES – In December 2020, about 10 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, Javier Perez-Torres boarded a bus from Los Angeles to Tijuana, Mexico, to […]
LA County reports 1st presumptive case of monkeypox
LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles County on Thursday confirmed its first presumptive case of monkeypox infection. At this time the county is awaiting final confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. According to health officials, the patient is an adult resident who recently traveled and had a known close contact to a case. […]
