Articles Tagged: COVID vaccine

The beginning of fall means back to school, cooling temps and the start of respiratory illness season. This season is also bringing new vaccination rules.

The health secretary criticized mRNA vaccines in a video on his social media accounts, explaining the decision to cancel projects being led by the nation's leading pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, that offer protection against viruses like the flu, COVID-19 and H5N1.

COVID has become similar to influenza — an endemic disease — in terms of the risk of severe illness, hospitalization and death, experts said. The coronavirus, which causes COVID, is now less deadly, though it is more transmissible and is expected to continue experiencing waves, some of which could be severe.

The Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau recaps the first funnel deadline of the 2025 legislative session.

Federal legal protections added in the 1980s to shield vaccine manufacturers from most lawsuits would be waived any time a vaccine is administered in Iowa under legislation that was advanced Wednesday by Republican state lawmakers.

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After suffering from side effects allegedly caused by the vaccine – including fatigue, facial drooping, loss of balance, and weakness or numbness throughout his body — Larry Driscoll filed a workers’ compensation claim, arguing his issues stemmed from his work for the city.

Iowa Department of Health and Human Services documents high COVID-19 activity and moderate influenza activity.

The number of Iowans who have up-to-date COVID-19 vaccinations has plummeted in recent months, just as the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services reports spread of the disease is “very high”.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the latest vaccine last month. But many nursing homes aren’t expecting to be able to begin inoculations until this month or even November, though infections among this vulnerable population have been on the rise in recent months.

This year, new vaccines for COVID-19 and RSV bring hope to reduce the number of cases of severe illness. But as of Aug. 31, only 1 in 5 Iowans are up to date on their COVID-19 vaccinations, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

As the federal public health emergency ends, the Eastern Iowa Health Center is shifting gears by launching a multilingual ad campaign to reach underserved populations in need of COVID-19 vaccinations and updated booster shots.

The bill would prohibit the state’s labor commissioner from enforcing a federal occupational health and safety regulation.

Although just 39 percent of Americans 65 and older have had both the initial COVID vaccine series plus an updated bivalent booster against the omicron strain, new University of Iowa-involved research shows “significant protection” from that bivalent shot among those older adults.

“The world has changed a lot in the last two and a half years, and the ways that we're trying to protect health care workers, and society as a whole, are different, too,” said study co-principal investigator Nicholas Mohr, UI professor of emergency medicine, anesthesia and epidemiology.