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  • WHO Approves First Malaria Vaccine, a Lifesaver for Children Worldwide | Health News

    WHO Approves First Malaria Vaccine, a Lifesaver for Children Worldwide | Health News

    By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter

    (HealthDay)

    WEDNESDAY, Oct. 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The very first vaccine to shield versus malaria has been endorsed by the Planet Wellness Firm (WHO) and could prevent the deaths of tens of countless numbers of small children a yr.

    Malaria kills about 50 {fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} a million people today all over the world every year. Just about all of those people fatalities take place in sub-Saharan Africa and include 260,000 little ones under the age of 5, The New York Periods described.

    The Mosquirix vaccine is given in a few doses among the ages of 5 months and 17 months, with a fourth dose about 18 months later.

    In medical trials, the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine was about 50{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c} productive towards critical malaria in the very first calendar year, but that fell to close to zero by the fourth 12 months, the Instances noted.

    After the medical trials, the vaccine was integrated into routine immunization plans in Kenya, Malawi and Ghana. So much, far more than 2.3 million doses have been supplied to extra than 800,000 young children in those people international locations.

    That boosted the percentage of young children shielded in opposition to malaria in some way to far more than 90{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}, from fewer than 70{fe463f59fb70c5c01486843be1d66c13e664ed3ae921464fa884afebcc0ffe6c}, Dr. Mary Hamel, head of the WHO’s malaria vaccine implementation system, informed the Occasions.

    Previous calendar year, a modeling review approximated that use of the vaccine in nations around the world with the greatest incidence of malaria could protect against 5.4 million circumstances and 23,000 deaths in kids youthful than 5 every year, according to the Instances.

    One more current trial assessed how nicely a mix of the vaccine and preventive medicine safeguarded kids all through substantial malaria transmission seasons. This dual strategy was found to be much a lot more efficient at protecting against extreme disease, hospitalization and loss of life than either technique alone, the Instances claimed.

    The vaccine — the 1st for any parasitic disorder — triggers the immune procedure to focus on Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest of 5 malaria pathogens and the most typical a single in Africa.

    “Development versus malaria has seriously stalled around the last 5 or 6 years, significantly in some of the most difficult-strike international locations in the world,” Ashley Birkett, who qualified prospects malaria applications at Route, a nonprofit focused on worldwide overall health, told the Occasions.

    With the new vaccine, “you will find probable for pretty, very important impact there,” Birkett additional.

    Dr. Nanthalile Mugala is PATH’s main of the Africa Region. “It is gratifying to know that a malaria vaccine created particularly for African children could soon be additional extensively readily available,” Mugala said in a statement from the nonprofit.

    “This is specifically true now when progress in combating malaria has stalled in pieces of the Africa region and kids remain at amplified hazard of dying from the sickness. As caregivers noticed the gains of the malaria vaccine for their kids, we noticed their belief in the vaccine, and the wellness devices, develop,” Mugala additional. “Mother and father will do all the things in their energy to defend their young children versus this horrible condition that nevertheless kills just one boy or girl each and every two minutes.”

    Later on this calendar year, the board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance is envisioned to think about financing a broader rollout of the vaccine across Africa.

    The WHO’s endorsement of the vaccine arrived after experts achieved to assessment facts and built a official advice to WHO Director-Standard Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

    If Gavi also approves the vaccine, it will buy the vaccine for countries that ask for it. That method is very likely to choose at minimum a 12 months, the Situations claimed.

    Source: The New York Occasions

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  • COVID-19 live updates: Alberta reports 21 more deaths, 4,03 new cases over last three days; EPSB implementing vaccine mandate

    COVID-19 live updates: Alberta reports 21 more deaths, 4,03 new cases over last three days; EPSB implementing vaccine mandate

    Watch this page throughout the day for updates on COVID-19 in Edmonton

    Author of the article:

    Postmedia News

    Publishing date:

    Oct 04, 2021  •  4 hours ago  •  7 minute read  •  11 Comments

    An e-scooter rider wears a COVID-19 masks while traveling in downtown Edmonton, on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Photo by Ian Kucerak
    An e-scooter rider wears a COVID-19 masks while traveling in downtown Edmonton, on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Photo by Ian Kucerak Photo by Ian Kucerak /Postmedia

    COVID-19 news happens rapidly, we have created this file to keep you up-to-date on all the latest stories and information on the outbreak in and around Edmonton.

    What’s happening now

    Share your COVID-19 stories

    As Alberta grapples with a fourth wave of COVID-19 at the start of another school year, we’re looking to hear your stories on this evolving situation.

    • Have you or a loved one had a surgery rescheduled or cancelled in recent weeks?
    • Are you someone who has decided to get vaccinated after previously being skeptical of the vaccines?
    • Have you changed your mind about sending your children back to school in person?
    • Have you enrolled your children in a private school due to COVID-19?
    • Are you a frontline health-care worker seeing new strains on the health system?
      Send us your stories via email at [email protected]

    5:42 p.m.

    Government reports 4,037 new cases, 21 more deaths over last three days

    • Alberta is reporting 21 more deaths over the past three days. The province’s death toll is now at 2,752.
    • There are 4,037 new cases. On Friday, Alberta Health reported 1,629 new cases. On Saturday, there were 1,282 new cases. On Sunday, there were 1,126 new cases.

    2:38 p.m.

    Edmonton Public Schools implementing COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all employees

    Anna Junker

    Empty classroom at an Edmonton school. File photo.
    Empty classroom at an Edmonton school. File photo. Postmedia, file

    Edmonton Public Schools is requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

    Supt. Darrel Robertson said Monday the division is implementing the vaccine mandate in order to provide a safe learning and working environment, especially because children under 12 cannot yet be immunized.

    “Our custodial staff, maintenance, support, teachers, exempt staff, our volunteers that come into the school, essentially all adults that are coming in school to spend time and work with kids, or around kids, will be captured in this mandatory vaccination regulation,” Robertson said.

    All employees will have to declare their vaccination status by mid-October. Those who are not fully vaccinated and have not received an exemption from the division will be required to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test every 72 hours.

    From late October to Dec. 17, the division will coordinate and pay for testing through a third-party provider. Following Dec. 17, any employee who remains unvaccinated will have to cover the cost of the test at their own expense.

    The mandate will be in place for all 215 schools along with any other buildings that the division operates.

    More to come. 

    11:21 a.m.

    Unvaccinated, Edmonton Oilers Forward, Josh Archibald is out indefinitely due to inflamed heart muscle following Contracting COVID-19 this summer

    Jim Matheson

    The Edmonton Oilers Josh Archibald (15) battles the Vancouver Canucks’ Nate Schmidt (88) during third period NHL action at Rogers Place, in Edmonton Saturday May 8, 2021. The Oilers won 4-3.
    The Edmonton Oilers Josh Archibald (15) battles the Vancouver Canucks’ Nate Schmidt (88) during third period NHL action at Rogers Place, in Edmonton Saturday May 8, 2021. The Oilers won 4-3. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia

    After doctors in Edmonton discovered Josh Archibald had contracted Covid this summer, they did more tests and have found damage to his heart muscle.

    The unvaccinated Edmonton Oilers forward was in his 14-day quarantine after travelling from the U.S., when he started to not feel well. He skated briefly but not with the any of the groups after they hit the ice Sept. 23 for practices/scrimmages.

    Archibald, 28, went for a battery of medical tests and they discovered he had Covid antibodies and myocarditis. Myocarditis is the same ailment that Oilers third goalie from last season Alex Stalock was felled with last fall in Minnesota. He, too, had come down with Covid, which affected his heart.

    Myocarditis, which can lead to cardiac arrest and possible death with the heart rate increasing through exertion, has been found to be an after-effect of Covid in athletes pushing their training before camps.

    Read more.

    7:52 a.m.

    Study suggests Pfizer/BioNTech antibodies disappear in many by seven months

    National Post

    A vial and syringe are seen in front of a displayed Pfizer logo in this illustration taken Jan. 11, 2021.
    A vial and syringe are seen in front of a displayed Pfizer logo in this illustration taken Jan. 11, 2021. Photo by Dado Ruvic /REUTERS

    Six months after receiving the second dose of the two-shot vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, many recipients no longer have vaccine-induced antibodies that can immediately neutralize worrisome variants of the coronavirus, a new study suggests.

    Researchers analyzed blood samples from 46 healthy, mostly young or middle-aged adults after receipt of the two doses and again six months after the second dose.

    “Our study shows vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine induces high levels of neutralizing antibodies against the original vaccine strain, but these levels drop by nearly 10-fold by seven months” after the initial dose, Bali Pulendran of Stanford University and Mehul Suthar of Emory University said by email.

    In roughly half of all subjects, neutralizing antibodies that can block infection against coronavirus variants such as Delta, Beta, and Mu were undetectable at six months after the second dose, their team reported on Thursday on bioRxiv ahead of peer review.

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    Sunday

    Military nurses expected to help fight Alberta’s COVID-19 by Monday: federal minister

    Lisa Johnson

    File photo.
    File photo. PNimg

    Up to eight critical care nurses from the Canadian Armed Forces are expected to be in Alberta hospitals by Monday to help deal with the fourth wave of COVID-19.

    “We are always ready to help Canadians across the country during difficult times, and this pandemic has been no different. The Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Red Cross, and health professionals have stepped up time and again over the past 19 months to answer the call to protect people, and I want to thank all those on the front lines who continue to keep Canadians safe,” Blair said in the release.

    The Canadian Red Cross is planning to provide up to 20 medical professionals, some with ICU experience, to help or relieve staff working in hospitals in the province, and is finalizing its plan with Alberta Health Services to send its personnel where they are needed.

    Read more

    Saturday

    Why would some Albertans take Johnson & Johnson, but not another COVID-19 vaccine?

    Jason Herring, Calgary

    A Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.
    A Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images
    Could the Johnson & Johnson vaccine help boost COVID-19 immunization rates in Alberta’s remote regions?

    That’s what Premier Jason Kenney is betting on now, as his government requests an inventory of the single-shot vaccines from the federal government in a bid to bolster vaccine uptake in rural areas of the province.

    Friday

    MLAs would have to vote to require vaccinations inside the legislature’s chamber: Speaker

    Speaker of the Legislative Nathan Cooper.
    Speaker of the Legislative Nathan Cooper. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia, file

    Alberta’s Speaker of the legislature says he does not have the power to unilaterally impose a vaccine mandate on MLAs in the legislature but that the elected officials could vote to create one he would be responsible for enforcing.Questions around the vaccination status of those in the legislature come as the NDP pushes for vaccine rules in the building and calls for Premier Jason Kenney to boot out unvaccinated MLAs from his caucus.

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    Letter of the day

    NDP and UCP battle over Alberta’s K-6 Draft Curriculum. (Cartoon by Malcolm Mayes)
    NDP and UCP battle over Alberta’s K-6 Draft Curriculum. (Cartoon by Malcolm Mayes) Malcolm Mayes

    Make sure to include the entire UCP caucus when it comes to blame for the fourth wave burning through Alberta. Rather than working together on solutions, several UCP MLAs including the speaker and deputy speaker attend the Free Alberta Strategy meeting. Their whole existence is to blame the federal government for all our ills, as 600-plus million dollars of federal aid targeted for Alberta goes unspent.

    They are more concerned about cancelling the RCMP and getting their hands on my CPP and EI to “invest” in their questionable schemes than manage the pandemic making us a laughingstock.They are more concerned about cancelling the RCMP and getting their hands on my CPP and EI to “invest” in their questionable schemes than manage the pandemic making us a laughingstock.

    Perry Assaly, Edmonton

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  • COVID-19 live updates: Alberta reports 21 more deaths, 4,03 new cases over last three days; EPSB implementing vaccine mandate

    COVID-19 live updates: Alberta reports 21 more deaths, 4,03 new cases over last three days; EPSB implementing vaccine mandate

    Watch this page throughout the day for updates on COVID-19 in Edmonton

    Author of the article:

    Postmedia News

    Publishing date:

    Oct 04, 2021  •  4 hours ago  •  7 minute read  •  11 Comments

    An e-scooter rider wears a COVID-19 masks while traveling in downtown Edmonton, on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Photo by Ian Kucerak
    An e-scooter rider wears a COVID-19 masks while traveling in downtown Edmonton, on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021. Photo by Ian Kucerak Photo by Ian Kucerak /Postmedia

    COVID-19 news happens rapidly, we have created this file to keep you up-to-date on all the latest stories and information on the outbreak in and around Edmonton.

    What’s happening now

    Share your COVID-19 stories

    As Alberta grapples with a fourth wave of COVID-19 at the start of another school year, we’re looking to hear your stories on this evolving situation.

    • Have you or a loved one had a surgery rescheduled or cancelled in recent weeks?
    • Are you someone who has decided to get vaccinated after previously being skeptical of the vaccines?
    • Have you changed your mind about sending your children back to school in person?
    • Have you enrolled your children in a private school due to COVID-19?
    • Are you a frontline health-care worker seeing new strains on the health system?
      Send us your stories via email at [email protected]

    5:42 p.m.

    Government reports 4,037 new cases, 21 more deaths over last three days

    • Alberta is reporting 21 more deaths over the past three days. The province’s death toll is now at 2,752.
    • There are 4,037 new cases. On Friday, Alberta Health reported 1,629 new cases. On Saturday, there were 1,282 new cases. On Sunday, there were 1,126 new cases.

    2:38 p.m.

    Edmonton Public Schools implementing COVID-19 vaccine mandate for all employees

    Anna Junker

    Empty classroom at an Edmonton school. File photo.
    Empty classroom at an Edmonton school. File photo. Postmedia, file

    Edmonton Public Schools is requiring all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

    Supt. Darrel Robertson said Monday the division is implementing the vaccine mandate in order to provide a safe learning and working environment, especially because children under 12 cannot yet be immunized.

    “Our custodial staff, maintenance, support, teachers, exempt staff, our volunteers that come into the school, essentially all adults that are coming in school to spend time and work with kids, or around kids, will be captured in this mandatory vaccination regulation,” Robertson said.

    All employees will have to declare their vaccination status by mid-October. Those who are not fully vaccinated and have not received an exemption from the division will be required to provide proof of a negative COVID-19 test every 72 hours.

    From late October to Dec. 17, the division will coordinate and pay for testing through a third-party provider. Following Dec. 17, any employee who remains unvaccinated will have to cover the cost of the test at their own expense.

    The mandate will be in place for all 215 schools along with any other buildings that the division operates.

    More to come. 

    11:21 a.m.

    Unvaccinated, Edmonton Oilers Forward, Josh Archibald is out indefinitely due to inflamed heart muscle following Contracting COVID-19 this summer

    Jim Matheson

    The Edmonton Oilers Josh Archibald (15) battles the Vancouver Canucks’ Nate Schmidt (88) during third period NHL action at Rogers Place, in Edmonton Saturday May 8, 2021. The Oilers won 4-3.
    The Edmonton Oilers Josh Archibald (15) battles the Vancouver Canucks’ Nate Schmidt (88) during third period NHL action at Rogers Place, in Edmonton Saturday May 8, 2021. The Oilers won 4-3. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia

    After doctors in Edmonton discovered Josh Archibald had contracted Covid this summer, they did more tests and have found damage to his heart muscle.

    The unvaccinated Edmonton Oilers forward was in his 14-day quarantine after travelling from the U.S., when he started to not feel well. He skated briefly but not with the any of the groups after they hit the ice Sept. 23 for practices/scrimmages.

    Archibald, 28, went for a battery of medical tests and they discovered he had Covid antibodies and myocarditis. Myocarditis is the same ailment that Oilers third goalie from last season Alex Stalock was felled with last fall in Minnesota. He, too, had come down with Covid, which affected his heart.

    Myocarditis, which can lead to cardiac arrest and possible death with the heart rate increasing through exertion, has been found to be an after-effect of Covid in athletes pushing their training before camps.

    Read more.

    7:52 a.m.

    Study suggests Pfizer/BioNTech antibodies disappear in many by seven months

    National Post

    A vial and syringe are seen in front of a displayed Pfizer logo in this illustration taken Jan. 11, 2021.
    A vial and syringe are seen in front of a displayed Pfizer logo in this illustration taken Jan. 11, 2021. Photo by Dado Ruvic /REUTERS

    Six months after receiving the second dose of the two-shot vaccine from Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE, many recipients no longer have vaccine-induced antibodies that can immediately neutralize worrisome variants of the coronavirus, a new study suggests.

    Researchers analyzed blood samples from 46 healthy, mostly young or middle-aged adults after receipt of the two doses and again six months after the second dose.

    “Our study shows vaccination with the Pfizer-BioNtech vaccine induces high levels of neutralizing antibodies against the original vaccine strain, but these levels drop by nearly 10-fold by seven months” after the initial dose, Bali Pulendran of Stanford University and Mehul Suthar of Emory University said by email.

    In roughly half of all subjects, neutralizing antibodies that can block infection against coronavirus variants such as Delta, Beta, and Mu were undetectable at six months after the second dose, their team reported on Thursday on bioRxiv ahead of peer review.

    Read more

    Sunday

    Military nurses expected to help fight Alberta’s COVID-19 by Monday: federal minister

    Lisa Johnson

    File photo.
    File photo. PNimg

    Up to eight critical care nurses from the Canadian Armed Forces are expected to be in Alberta hospitals by Monday to help deal with the fourth wave of COVID-19.

    “We are always ready to help Canadians across the country during difficult times, and this pandemic has been no different. The Canadian Armed Forces, Canadian Red Cross, and health professionals have stepped up time and again over the past 19 months to answer the call to protect people, and I want to thank all those on the front lines who continue to keep Canadians safe,” Blair said in the release.

    The Canadian Red Cross is planning to provide up to 20 medical professionals, some with ICU experience, to help or relieve staff working in hospitals in the province, and is finalizing its plan with Alberta Health Services to send its personnel where they are needed.

    Read more

    Saturday

    Why would some Albertans take Johnson & Johnson, but not another COVID-19 vaccine?

    Jason Herring, Calgary

    A Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine.
    A Johnson & Johnson Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. Photo by KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images
    Could the Johnson & Johnson vaccine help boost COVID-19 immunization rates in Alberta’s remote regions?

    That’s what Premier Jason Kenney is betting on now, as his government requests an inventory of the single-shot vaccines from the federal government in a bid to bolster vaccine uptake in rural areas of the province.

    Friday

    MLAs would have to vote to require vaccinations inside the legislature’s chamber: Speaker

    Speaker of the Legislative Nathan Cooper.
    Speaker of the Legislative Nathan Cooper. Photo by David Bloom /Postmedia, file

    Alberta’s Speaker of the legislature says he does not have the power to unilaterally impose a vaccine mandate on MLAs in the legislature but that the elected officials could vote to create one he would be responsible for enforcing.Questions around the vaccination status of those in the legislature come as the NDP pushes for vaccine rules in the building and calls for Premier Jason Kenney to boot out unvaccinated MLAs from his caucus.

    Sign up for our COVID newsletter:

    https://edmontonjournal.com/newsletters/

    Letter of the day

    NDP and UCP battle over Alberta’s K-6 Draft Curriculum. (Cartoon by Malcolm Mayes)
    NDP and UCP battle over Alberta’s K-6 Draft Curriculum. (Cartoon by Malcolm Mayes) Malcolm Mayes

    Make sure to include the entire UCP caucus when it comes to blame for the fourth wave burning through Alberta. Rather than working together on solutions, several UCP MLAs including the speaker and deputy speaker attend the Free Alberta Strategy meeting. Their whole existence is to blame the federal government for all our ills, as 600-plus million dollars of federal aid targeted for Alberta goes unspent.

    They are more concerned about cancelling the RCMP and getting their hands on my CPP and EI to “invest” in their questionable schemes than manage the pandemic making us a laughingstock.They are more concerned about cancelling the RCMP and getting their hands on my CPP and EI to “invest” in their questionable schemes than manage the pandemic making us a laughingstock.

    Perry Assaly, Edmonton

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  • US Unveils Guidance for Federal Vaccine Mandate, Exemptions | Health News

    US Unveils Guidance for Federal Vaccine Mandate, Exemptions | Health News

    By ZEKE MILLER, Connected Press

    WASHINGTON (AP) — With just weeks remaining just before federal employees will have to be vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19, the federal government on Monday outlined procedures for staff to ask for healthcare or spiritual exemptions from President Joe Biden’s mandate.

    The Workplace of Administration and Finances introduced the new guidance Monday afternoon ahead of the Nov. 22 deadline for staff to be entirely vaccinated, outlining distinct professional medical conditions that would warrant an exemption. Below the recommendations, agencies are to immediate workers to get their to start with shot inside two weeks of an exemption ask for becoming denied, or the resolution of a healthcare issue. They also make very clear that federal organizations may deny health-related or religious exemptions if they establish that no other protection protocol is suitable.

    The Biden administration is drawing on Centers for Ailment Manage and Prevention steerage to establish approved healthcare exemptions, which include a background of allergic response to the vaccines. Other circumstances, which includes getting taken care of with monoclonal antibodies or obtaining a history of multisystem inflammatory syndrome, warrant a 90-day hold off in vaccination, in accordance with CDC tips.

    While the CDC endorses that women of all ages who are expecting or are scheduling to turn into pregnant get vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19, the federal authorities will take into consideration requests to delay vaccination while expecting based on the worker’s particular health care situation.

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    Senior administration officials provided The Involved Press with a preview of the new steerage Monday in advance of it was posted by OMB.

    Federal workers looking for exemptions will interact in what officers known as an “interactive process” with their organizations, which will incorporate being requested to offer documentation to assistance the exemption and opportunity lodging. In the event an exemption ask for is turned down, personnel will have two months to get a very first shot, or be subject matter to disciplinary proceedings in accordance with Biden’s get.

    Unvaccinated employees are demanded to put on masks and manage social distancing and will have their means to travel for work curtailed. New tests guidance for all those who are granted exemptions is anticipated to be unveiled in the coming weeks.

    In some conditions, agencies may possibly deny even legitimate exemption requests if they ascertain “that no protection protocol other than vaccination is adequate” presented the character of the employee’s career.

    Underneath CDC guidelines, individuals are only viewed as entirely vaccinated two weeks following their 2nd dose of two-shot mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna or the a person-dose Johnson & Johnson shot — this means most federal personnel have until eventually Nov. 8, at the hottest, to roll up their sleeves to comply with Biden’s purchase.

    In accordance to the new federal advice, neither earlier COVID-19 infection nor an antibody exam can be substituted for vaccination.

    Meanwhile, personal providers with more than 100 workforce will be subject matter to a forthcoming rule from the Occupational Basic safety and Wellness Administration demanding all staff to be vaccinated or get examined weekly. Biden introduced the regulation weeks back, but the company is nonetheless drafting the particulars.

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