Month: July 2021

Dr. Kavita Patel warned that the longer people wait to get vaccinated, "the more it poses a risk down the line for even those of us who are vaccinated." "It's not just that vaccinations work, it's that we have to vaccinate the whole world, and the more people that are unvaccinated or remain unvaccinated, the virus replicates. As it replicates, it mutates, and the more efficient it gets with mutations, that's where you get variants like delta," said Patel, a former Obama administration policy aide. The delta variant is the dominant Covid-19 strain in the United States and accounts for more than half of all new cases nationwide, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The World Health Organization described the delta variant as the "fastest and ...

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A female in her 40s from Guadalupe County. The individual was hospitalized and had underlying conditions. The number of deaths of New Mexico residents related to COVID-19 is now 4,347.  In addition to the deaths, the state reported 83 additional COVID-19 cases. As of Wednesday, New Mexico has reported a total of 205,996 cases. The latest cases include: 27 new cases in Bernalillo County 1 new case in Chaves County 2 new cases in Curry County 5 new cases in Doña Ana County 1 new case in Los Alamos County 3 new cases in Luna County 1 new case in McKinley County 1 new case in Otero County...

Moderna has given out the first doses of an mRNA-based influenza vaccine to participants in an early-phase clinical trial, the company announced Wednesday. Moderna ultimately plans to test the vaccine on about 180 people in the Phase 1/2 randomized, stratified, observer-blind trial. The trial will look at safety, different doses, and immune responses. The vaccine, called mRNA-1010, is designed to target four lineages of influenza viruses that circulate seasonally each year, just like the current quadrivalent flu vaccines on the market. The four virus lineages are those identified by the World Health Organization as the ones to target for disease prevention each year—seasonal influenza type A lineages H1N1 and H3N2 as well as influenza type B l...

Nearly 30 people in Louisiana who received full doses of COVID-19 vaccinations have died with the coronavirus, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. It said the deaths were caused by the virus, not a reaction to the vaccine, which provides 94 to 95% protection against coronavirus.Dr. Joseph Kanter, who is Louisiana Department of Health's state health officer and medical director, said 27 people in the state died with coronavirus more than two weeks after they were fully vaccinated. Kanter said the deaths were among people ages 28 to 93 years old. "These are people who died from COVID, from complications of COVID, despite being vaccinated because the vaccine is not 100 percent and people with weakened immune systems, people who are a little bit older and some people for rea...