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(MedPage Today) — TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso…

AstraZeneca revealed that its coronavirus vaccine candidate delivers the same immune response in older and younger people and that older people are less likely to experience adverse effects. The elderly might benefit the most from the first round of vaccinations, as they’re an at-risk category of people for COVID-19 complications. The company did not release…

Trump health spokesperson planned to vaccinate Santas in $250 million campaign.

In a news release issued Thursday, Massachusetts-based Moderna said it had enrolled all 30,000 volunteers and had administered the second dose of the vaccine to 26,650 of them. WebMD Health News

The novel coronavirus can spread via droplets, aerosols, and fomites. Face masks can help reduce transmission in all of those instances. A popular YouTube channel created a simple experiment that proves how many particles a person ejects when talking, and Dr. Anthony Fauci has now reacted to the findings. Droplets and aerosol transmission are what…

Completion rates vary from 11.3% in Idaho to 56.4% in Rhode Island. Provider visits at age 16 or 17 and mandates for meningococcal ACWY are keys to uptake, researcher says. Medscape Medical News