Helen Branswell
Senior Writer, Infectious Diseases and Global Health at STAT
I cover infectious diseases @statnews. 2020 Polk winner. Nieman '11. She/her. #H5N1 #birdflu #Covid #polio #flu, #RSV. Me on Signal: HBranswell.01
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3 days ago |
statnews.com | Helen Branswell
Delivering Covid vaccinations has never been an easy job. But health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s rewriting of government recommendations will make the effort to get vaccine doses into arms exponentially more difficult, experts say. The changes will complicate discussions between pediatricians and parents, obstetricians and pregnant patients, and both groups and their insurers, these experts say.
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1 week ago |
statnews.com | Helen Branswell
The Food and Drug Administration approved Moderna’s new Covid-19 vaccine late Friday, though it placed restrictions on its use that the company’s existing Covid shot, Spikevax, does not currently face. The new vaccine, which will be marketed under the name mNexspike, will not immediately replace Spikevax. A statement from the company said both vaccines will be available on the market for the time being.
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1 week ago |
bostonglobe.com | Helen Branswell
This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. The Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.
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1 week ago |
statnews.com | Helen Branswell
This story will be updatedThe Department of Health and Human Services has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract with the company to develop, test, and license vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics, including the dangerous H5N1 bird flu virus.
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1 week ago |
statnews.com | Helen Branswell
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday that he has unilaterally struck the recommendation that healthy children and healthy pregnant people get Covid-19 booster shots — a move that experts say is unprecedented. Kennedy made the announcement on the social media site X, flanked by Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, and Marty Makary, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
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Big changes in #WHO leadership as the global health agency grapples with the loss of U.S. funding. Mike Ryan, who has led the health emergencies program, is leaving. https://t.co/FqXHJjjwz7
Some parents who never had #measles, never worried about #polio, who don't remember what life was like when kids caught these diseases, fear the vaccines that prevent them instead. @statnews 's @thekibosch spoke to people who remember these foes. https://t.co/wjh4GcEGdM
Milwaukee needs help tracing kids who were exposed to lead in schools. A member of the #CDC lead poisoning team — a team laid off in the the DOGE cuts last month — volunteered to go help. But in these strange times, even an offer of help poses challenges. https://t.co/3TYarHQVe0