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@memeorandum@universeodon.com
2026-06-16 02:35:37

Covid vaccination cut risk of adverse heart events, large study finds (Lauren Chan/STAT)
statnews.com/2026/06/15/covid-
memeorandum.com/260615/p125#a2

As Bozkurt, Kamat, and Hotez reported in Circulation,
the myocarditis risk from COVID-19 vaccination is both rare and less severe than the myocarditis one risks from COVID-19 itself:
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, myocarditis/pericarditis rates are
≈12.6 cases per million doses of second-dose mRNA vaccine among individuals 12 to 39 years of age.
…

Despite rare cases of myocarditis,
the benefit-risk assessment for COVID-19 vaccinati…

Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24
- the first time that had happened over a five-year period.
Without vaccination, around 23 deaths would have been expected.
"It's incredible to think that a single jab can almost eliminate a particular type of cancer,"
said Prof Peter Sasieni, the lead researcher at Queen Mary University of London.

@servelan@newsie.social
2026-04-28 04:23:19

The measles outbreak is in South Carolina over but more are starting elsewhere : NPR
npr.org/2026/04/27/nx-s1-58016

@primonatura@mstdn.social
2026-06-14 12:00:19

"Cattle in England to get tuberculosis vaccine from 2030 as badger cull to end"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #England #Animals

@DiverDoc@mstdn.ca
2026-04-28 22:03:25

End of universal birth-dose hep B vaccination will drive up infections, deaths, costs, researchers say:
cidrap.umn.edu/hepatitis/end-u