Monthly Archives: November 2022

Bivalent COVID-19 boosters offer the best protection against current strains.The original COVID-19 boosters did a great job of preventing severe illness and hospitalization, even during the delta surge. Then came omicron and its subvariants, which not only were more transmissible than previous variants but evaded infection- and vaccine-provoked immunity. The boosters needed an update.In this […]

Twenty patients may have died due to a blunder with PCR tests at a scandal-hit Covid lab, health chiefs ruled today. Errors at Immensa’s Wolverhampton site meant around 39,000 positive PCR swabs were wrongly logged as negative. As a result, thousands did not self-isolate as they were under the false impression they could carry on […]

Northwestern Medicine investigators continue to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on health and society, from maternal vaccinations and antibody response to reducing burnout amongst healthcare workers and identifying novel therapeutic targets.  Sensitivity of nasal swab rapid antigen tests was similar when detecting the Omicron and Delta variants in persons infected with the SARS-CoV-2, according […]

Share CopiedPassengers on the platform before boarding their train at Union Station on November 22, 2022 in Washington DC, U.S. /CFPCOVID-19 cases in the U.S. are approaching 100 million as the country faces the looming “tripledemic” with other viruses of concern also spreading.According to the latest data from U.S. Johns Hopkins, the U.S. has reported […]

A dominatrix ordered a ‘submissive’ she met on a fetish website just six weeks earlier to ‘please your Queen’ before he allegedly bashed a man to death. Hairdresser Heide Victoria Bos, 37, of Melbourne‘s CBD, will serve as little as three-and-a-half years behind bars after her murder charge was downgraded to manslaughter under a plea […]

If you feel sick after your booster shot, that could be a good thing. Veuer’s Elizabeth Keatinge has more. Reports of new Covid-19 cases hit their lowest weekly level since March during Thanksgiving week, the Erie County Health Department reported Tuesday.Health officials recorded 524 new cases for the week ending Nov. 26, an 18% decrease […]

A New York City mother-of-three who plowed her BMW into a group of BLM protesters in 2020 has yet again refused a plea deal in favor of a jury trial. Kathleen Casillo, 54, appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court on Tuesday nearly two years after she was accused of driving into pedestrians during the protest at […]

Washington state’s COVID-19 response website to be decommissioned Dec. 1  Orcasoniansource

Queen Elizabeth II reigns supreme as Brits’ most Googled person this year, beating Johnny Depp and Amber Heard despite their explosive defamation trial Her Majesty was searched on average 516,290 times every month this year Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp received 437,490 monthly searches  Research by CelebTattler analysed Google data of celeb searches since […]

Home / COVID-19 / COVID Vaccines / Bivalent COVID-19 Boosters FAQLast updated: October 28, 2022En EspañolUp to now, COVID-19 vaccines have targeted the original COVID-19 strain. As we know, COVID-19 variants have made the vaccines a little less effective over time. The new bivalent vaccine provides protection against both the original strain and the new […]