Immunization - Adult Immunization Features

• 'Game the System' to Boost Vaccination Rates -- Why Not?   This could be a way of getting through to the vaccine hesitant, suggests Dr F. Perry Wilson.
  Medscape, October 20, 2021
• Pfizer COVID Vaccine Boosters: Who Needs Them? Who Can Get Them?   Decision, reversals, and premature announcements have characterized the COVID vaccine booster story in the United States. Where do we stand now?
  Medscape Internal Medicine, October 15, 2021
• Family Herd Immunity: Study Shows Dramatic Protection   Dr F. Perry Wilson introduces the concept of "family herd immunity" to explain COVID-19 transmission rates among members of a household.
  Medscape, October 12, 2021
• Battle for Boosters: A Third Dose for the Immunocompromised   Patients who are immunocompromised don't need a booster; they need a third primary series dose.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, October 01, 2021
• Why We Are Developing a Patent-Free COVID Antiviral Therapy During global health crises such as pandemics, drug discovery should be publicly funded and open, with no research secrets locked away.
  Knowable Magazine, September 29, 2021
• Sickle Cell Disease and COVID-19   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, speaks with Wanda Whitten-Shurney, MD, CEO and Medical Director of the Michigan Chapter of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA), and Clifton R. Kirkman II, a sickle cell warrior, about the impact of COVID-19 on sickle cell disease patients and the importance of vaccination.
  WebMD, September 27, 2021
• Wellcome Trust's Jeremy Farrar: 'Seeing the End of the Pandemic Is Premature'   Jeremy Farrar explains why we must expect new variants, and why he’d like to give away his booster shot.
  Medscape, September 22, 2021
• A Leading Virologist Reveals His Two 'Nightmare' Viruses   Virologist Florian Krammer talks about how much we should worry about the Delta virus and the truth about antibody tests.
  Medscape, September 14, 2021
• My Experience of a COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infection Although vaccinated fully, this hospitalist experienced a breakthrough COVID-19 infection, and urges others to be cautious.
  Medscape Hospital Medicine, September 13, 2021
• 'Coma' Author Robin Cook on Medical Thrillers and Healthcare   With his latest book, 'Viral,' Robin Cook says he's trying to entertain people and get them to think about the parts of healthcare that aren't working.
  Medscape, August 30, 2021
• Leading Pfizer Scientist Answers Key Vaccine Questions   WebMD's Chief Medical Officer, John Whyte, MD, asks William C. Gruber, MD, Senior Vice President, Vaccine Clinical R&D, Pfizer, pressing questions about their mRNA vaccine.
  WebMD, August 05, 2021
• Post-COVID Conditions Interim Guidance for Healthcare Professionals The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has provided interim guidance on the diagnosis and management of post-COVID conditions, which are often referred to as 'Long COVID.'
  CDC Expert Commentary, July 02, 2021
• COVID-19: Guiding Vaccinated Patients Through to the 'New Normal' Encourage vaccinated patients to get back to their prepandemic lives ― to the extent that they feel comfortable doing so, Eva Ritvo, MD, notes.
  Medscape Psychiatry, July 02, 2021
• Walter Isaacson on CRISPR and the People Behind the Revolution   Talking with Eric Topol and Abraham Verghese, Walter Isaacson describes the stories behind his latest book, 'The Codebreaker,' including how he contrived a Zoom meeting between key players who'd drifted apart.
  Medscape, June 18, 2021
• Biden's Real Moonshot to Prevent Cancer Dr George Lundberg argues that we can cut cancer mortality rates by 40% with better prevention, but we shouldn't exclude the elderly.
  Medscape Internal Medicine, June 11, 2021
• Michael Lewis on the Mirage That Is America's Public Health System   Gaps in public health preparation and priorities appeared years before SARS-CoV-2 arrived in the US. 'What happened before told you so much about what would happen during the pandemic,' Lewis says.
  Medscape, June 04, 2021
• New Guidance for Those Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19 When truly following these guidelines, many social situations in both the public and private setting should still include both masking and social distancing.
  Medscape Family Medicine, May 19, 2021
• A Framework for Comprehensive HIV Primary Care Once viral suppression is achieved, the focus of primary care for people with HIV is in many ways the same as for those without HIV, which increasingly includes the problems associated with aging.
  Medscape HIV/AIDS, May 19, 2021
• Imagine the Worst, or We're at Our Own Peril: Osterholm   At home with politicians and news anchors, CIDRAP's Michael Osterholm shares three rules of science and the media, and explains why policy and science belong together like chocolate and peanut butter.
  Medscape, May 14, 2021
• After Hundreds of Interviews, Here's John Whyte's View of COVID   Our problem with vaccines is that we talk about people instead of talking with people and listening to their perspectives.
  Medscape, May 05, 2021