Sources and updates, October 30
Sources and updates for the week of October 30 include booster shot demographics, mortality data by occupation, Paxlovid prescriptions, and more.
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Sources and updates, October 23
Sources and updates for the week of October 23 include flu vaccination disparities, genomic surveillance from travelers, hospital finances, and more.
Read MoreCOVID source shout-out: Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker
Last week, the team behind Bloomberg’s COVID-19 vaccine tracker announced that the dashboard will stop updating on October 5. Thank you to this team for your work tracking the vaccine rollout!
Read MoreThe U.S. needs to step up its booster shot campaign
New, Omicron-specific booster shots are publicly available for all American adults who’ve been previously vaccinated. But awareness of the shots and uptake so far are both incredibly low.
Read MoreSources and updates, September 11
Sources and updates for the week of September 11 include annual boosters, K-12 school safety, children orphaned during the pandemic, and more.
Read MoreCOVID-19 risk factors that should lead to Omicron booster priority
Unlike previous vaccination campaigns, the new Omicron boosters are available to all adults across the country who have been previously inoculated. But all previously-vaccinated Americans are not facing similar levels of COVID-19 risk.
Read MoreSources and updates, July 31
Sources and updates for the week of July 31 include slow vaccine uptake for young kids, next-generation vaccines, COVID-19’s origins, and more.
Read MoreWe need more data for fall booster decisions
This week, the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee met to discuss fall booster shots, in anticipation of another COVID-19 surge next winter. The discussion demonstrated the U.S.’s continued failure to provide the data that are really needed to make these decisions.
Read MoreSources and updates, June 26
Sources and updates for the week of June 26 include Paxlovid distribution, booster shot uptake, and a guide to government COVID-19 documents.
Read MoreCOVID source callout: Still no state-by-state data on vaccinations by race/ethnicity
It is now over a year into the U.S.’s vaccine rollout, and the CDC is still failing to publicly share data on vaccinations by state and race/ethnicity. I actually wrote a callout post about this in March 2021, and nothing has changed since then!
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