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Fact check: Are viral videos showing COVID-19 vaccine side effects accurate?

Videos appearing to show people experiencing severe side effects after allegedly receiving COVID-19 vaccines are making the rounds on social media as part of a renewed push from anti-vaccine movements to cast doubt on safety.

Tribune News Service

Bivalent COVID-19 shot should become standard, FDA advisers say

Bivalent COVID-19 shots should become the standard form of the vaccine, U.S. advisers said, part of a plan to offer a single booster to the public each year that gives protection against the most recent, dominant strains.

Tribune News Service

S. Dakota Senate suspends lawmaker after vaccine exchange

The South Dakota Senate has suspended a Republican state senator in a rare move that stripped her of legislative power while keeping the allegations against her a secret

The Independent UK

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FDA committee plots future of COVID vaccines, with Omicron formula and potentially annual booster shots

The aim of Thursday’s meeting was to “determine if we’ve reached a point in the pandemic where we can simplify and take a more routine approach,” said Dr. David Kaslow, director of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review at the FDA.

Fortune

Gov. Greg Abbott says he won’t give up COVID-era power until Texas lawmakers ban vaccine mandates, strengthen border

Abbott doubles down on his long-standing call to lawmakers to prohibit local governments from enacting mask and vaccine mandates.

The Texas Tribune

U.S. CDC still looking at potential stroke risk from Pfizer bivalent COVID shot

New data from one U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) database shows a possible stroke risk link for older adults who received an updated Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 booster shot, but the signal is weaker than what the agency had flagged earlier in January, health officials said on Thursday.

Reuters

FDA advisers back the same COVID vaccine for initial shots, boosters

Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday unanimously voted in favor of targeting the same coronavirus strain for initial COVID-19 vaccine doses and boosters going forward, but some expressed skepticism about whether all Americans need to receive the shots annually.

Reuters

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How third Covid vaccine dose could help 'level up' their immunity

First booster increased antibody levels across the board, bringing most vulnerable groups in line with the rest of population

Wales Online

Sajid Javid describes ‘anger’ at Andrew Bridgen’s Holocaust tweet

Mr Bridgen lost the Conservative whip earlier this month for tweeting an article questioning the safety of the Covid vaccines.

The Independent UK

COVID booster vaccines: how a third dose may help vulnerable people 'level up' their immunity

COVID vaccines call our immune systems to action, generating antibodies which fight against any contact we have with the virus. Antibodies help to reduce the effects of an infection or even prevent it altogether. Scientists have estimated that vaccination has averted millions of COVID deaths worldwide.

The Conversation

Latino teens provide education on covid

California high schoolers are playing an important role in encouraging those in their community to get vaccinated

Salon

Why inventing a vaccine for AIDS is tougher than for COVID

The 4-decades long effort to create an AIDS vaccine suffered a blow with news that a vaccine in a late stage trial was discontinued because results showed it to be ineffective. What are the obstacles?

WEKU

COVID-19: India Gets Its Own Nasal Vaccine, Union Ministers Mansukh Mandaviya, Jitendra Singh Launch iNCOVACC

The vaccine has been developed by India's Bharat Biotech. It will be available to the government for ₹ 325 per dose, but it will cost ₹ 800 to private hospitals. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News

Smear tests Northern Ireland: Important advice issued on cervical screening

Between 2016 and 2020 in NI there was an average of 81 people diagnosed with cervical cancer each year

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Vaccine hesitancy in South Africa: COVID experience highlights conspiracies, mistrust and the role of the media

In recent weeks, China has reported a spike in new cases of COVID and related deaths. Some countries have imposed travel restrictions as a result. But most – including South Africa – have not.

Manchester Evening News

People urged to get Covid booster after government announces universal vaccine programme will END

Vaccinations will become less widely available for healthy groups as campaigns move towards targeting vulnerable groups

Evening Standard

Covid: Spring and autumn booster jabs planned for people most at risk

‘Emergency’ surge vaccines could also be required if a new variant arises that is different to Omicron

Reuters

Updated COVID vaccines prevented illness from latest variants -CDC

The updated COVID-19 boosters from Pfizer Inc/BioNTech SE and Moderna helped prevent symptomatic infections against the new XBB-related subvariants, offering new evidence of how the vaccines perform against these fast-spreading strains, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.

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Manchester Evening News

Autumn Covid booster could be offered this year as experts make new recommendation

The JCVI has issued a series of recommendations for using vaccines to tackle Covid in 2023

The Independent UK

Warning of big change to Covid vaccines in UK

Vaccination experts said the nation is moving away from the ’emergency response’ to the Covid-19 pandemic

Daily Mirror

Universal Covid jabs to be wound down as under-50s given just weeks to get boosters

JCVI bosses issued the fresh guidance as they revealed that the universal Covid vaccine programme would end this year - and urged healthy Brits who haven't had their booster to get jabbed while they have a chance

The Independent UK

People urged to take up Covid vaccine offer before universal programme closes

Vaccination experts said the nation is moving away from the ’emergency response’ to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Conversation

Even bivalent updated COVID-19 boosters struggle to prevent omicron subvariant transmission – an immunologist discusses why new approaches are necessary

By almost any measure, the vaccination campaign against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, has been a global success.

Birmingham Post

Bath University start-up lands £1.2m after developing tech that allows vaccines to be stored without fridges

EnsiliTech has developed a way to keep vaccines such as Covid-19 safe out of the fridge or deep freeze

The Guardian - AU

Atagi expected to update advice on fifth dose of Covid vaccine within weeks

Experts urge governments to reprioritise public health messaging amid fears the anti-vaccine lobby ‘has the floor’ on immunisation

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