TGA releases vaccine-related myocarditis severity details Fewer than 1% of all likely myocarditis or pericarditis cases linked to mRNA vaccines in Australia have been treated in intensive care.
How do we raise child COVID-19 vaccination rates? With the dial barely moving on the proportion of younger children taking vaccines, experts are looking at what else can be done.
Booster protection wanes after four months – what does this mean for winter in Australia? The US CDC’s latest report on the durability of booster protection has found a more than 20% decline in effectiveness against emergency department encounters.
Will vaccine supply issues delay the return to school and impact kids’ mental health? As they did in the early stages of Australia’s rollout, GPs are again warning there are not enough doses to meet demand ahead of 5–11s getting vaccinated.
Vaccine myocarditis risk reaches 1 in 10,000 for adolescent boys But while the rate of Pfizer-related myocarditis continues to increase in males aged 12–17, research cited by the TGA indicates the risk is still dwarfed by the threat COVID-19 poses to this cohort.
How close is a home-grown mRNA COVID-19 vaccine? The first mRNA vaccine candidate developed in Australia should go to clinical trials next year. newsGP looks into whether GPs will one day administer doses.
How vaccine companies are responding to Omicron Scientists are scrambling to test and potentially update their vaccine candidates against the latest COVID variant of concern.
‘Alert but not alarmed’: What GPs need to know about Omicron Cases involving the newly named variant of concern have now been found in many countries, including Australia. What are the implications for general practice?
New COVID variant emerges in southern Africa B.1.1.529 has double the mutations of Delta and fuelled a rapid rise in cases in South Africa. What could it mean for vaccine-induced immunity?
COVID-19 vaccination gap ‘a national shame’ The RACGP has raised concerns over the gap in vaccine coverage between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians.