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Medicare may provide coverage for Covid-19 — Does Medicare Cover Covid-19? Medicare has released the new Medicare & You 2022 handbook. Looking through it, you’ll notice some new coverages and listed updates, including a section that details coverage for Covid-19 through the ongoing crisis. New coverages include vaccinations, testing, antibody testing, and monoclonal antibody treatment. Coverage for […]

Covid-19 Coverage Through Medicare

October 28, 2021 in Health / Medicare tagged COVID-19 / health benefits / medicare benefits / vaccinations by Cali Naughton

Where will the United States donate its vaccines? The Biden administration has announced that the first 25 million doses the U.S. will donate is going to low- and middle- income countries to help combat the dangers that the COVID-19 pandemic presents. About 75 percent of the first 25 million doses […]

Where will the United States donate its vaccines?

June 13, 2021 in Health / life tagged health / health & safety / vaccinations by Jeffrey Cooperstein

The FDA may soon have to reexamine Moderna’s emergency use authorization, as the company's COVID-19 vaccine is also effective in teens. — Following the recent announcement that Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in 12- to 16-year-olds, Moderna has announced that its COVID-19 vaccine is 100 percent effective in the same age group. Americans may see an extension of Moderna’s emergency use […]

Moderna’s Emergency Use Authorization May Extend to Teens

June 6, 2021 in Health tagged current events / health & safety / vaccinations by Macee Hall

After a fairly nonexistent flu season due to masks, social distancing, reduced travel and other various factors, the flu could make a return in 2021. As people wear masks less, in-person school learning reopens and people begin to travel more often, the ability for the flu to spread could increase […]

Flu Could Make a Return

June 3, 2021 in Health / life tagged current events / health & safety / vaccinations by Jeffrey Cooperstein

Students hoping to return to college campuses across the country may be required to get vaccinated against COVID-19. — With over 1.5 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered worldwide and the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) promoting loosened mask restrictions for those who have been fully vaccinated, the world is rapidly attempting to return to some sense of normalcy. Recent changes have left many college-age students […]

Students’ Return to College Campuses May Require Vaccination

May 30, 2021 in Health tagged health / health & safety / higher education / vaccinations by Macee Hall

America faces potential future outbreaks as the vaccination rate declines. Photo by Uriel Mont on Pexels. — The Crawl Back to Normal With the one-month anniversary of the day the vaccine became available for all American adults swiftly approaching, there has been a significant downward trend in the vaccination rate. While experts say that the slowing vaccination rate was hardly unexpected, the numbers have declined enough to […]

Moving Forward: Tackling the Slowing Vaccination Rate

May 16, 2021 in Health tagged COVID-19 / government acts & responses / vaccinations by Cristin Dickey

In the coming weeks, the EU COVID passports are expected to be introduced, which will allow immune individuals to move throughout the EU without restrictions. The “passports” will be certificates in either paper or digital form. The certificate will enable anyone vaccinated, who tested negative, or who recently recovered from […]

EU COVID Passports

May 12, 2021 in Health / life tagged COVID-19 / health & safety / vaccinations by Jeffrey Cooperstein

The vaccination process has obviously come a long way, so let’s take a moment to stroll back in time and learn about vaccinations through history. — Over the last couple years, there have been many discussions regarding vaccinations, especially during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With many vaccine recipients boasting selfies with their filled-out vaccination cards and proudly bearing side-effects, and new medications being developed in record time, it is not hard to forget that immunization has […]

Vaccinations Through History

May 7, 2021 in Health tagged health & safety / influenza / vaccinations by Macee Hall

herd immunity — As we have been in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, our primary goal has been trying to find a way to come out of this protected. A term that has been thrown around a lot by experts and news reporters is herd immunity, but what exactly does that mean? […]

Can We Reach Herd Immunity?

April 26, 2021 in Health / life / Medicare tagged COVID-19 / health & safety / vaccinations by Kayla Gonzalez

***UPDATE: As of April 23, 2021, the CDC cleared the United Stated to resume use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. The vaccine will now come with a warning of the potential, but rare, risk of life-threatening blood clots. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine has been put on pause due […]

Vaccine is Put On Pause

April 24, 2021 in Health / life tagged COVID-19 / health & safety / vaccinations by Jeffrey Cooperstein