Tag Archives: Vaccination

California vaccination site closing temporarily for ‘anime’ event: reports

Sorry, your coronavirus vaccination will just have to wait a couple of days. Officials at a vaccination site near Sacramento, California, say they’ll be shutting down the site temporarily this week so they can host a pre-planned event. Operators of “The Grounds” in Roseville (formerly the Placer County Fairgrounds) said the space had been previously… Read More »

Vaccination nation

On New Year’s Eve, journalist Nadav Eyal tweeted out a scene from a neighborhood in Tel Aviv: Health clinic workers giving COVID-19 vaccinations found themselves left with a few extra doses when a pizza delivery guy went by. “Guy with the pizza, come here,” one of the workers yelled out. He got a vaccine. “That,”… Read More »

Big unknown about vaccination

The admission came from Pfizer chairman Albert Bourla who told US media the pharmaceutical company was “not certain” if the vaccine prevented the coronavirus from being transmitted. “This is something that needs to be examined,” he told Dateline.  “We are not certain about that right now with what we know.” This week, the UK became… Read More »

FDA Approves Expanded Use of Adacel (Tdap) Vaccine for Repeat Vaccination

Print this page BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Jan. 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the expanded use of Adacel® (Tetanus Toxoid, Reduced Diphtheria Toxoid and Acellular Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccine Adsorbed) to include repeat vaccination to help protect against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis. It is now the first and only Tdap vaccine… Read More »