FDA Approves Vaccine for Younger Children; 'Vax' Named Word of the Year
Channel: HealthManagement.org
Date: 2021-11-02

FDA authorises vaccine for younger children; Vax is word of the year - Weekly News 2 November

FDA has authorised Pfizer's COVID vaccine for children 5 to 11. This is the first vaccine for COVID authorised in the U.S. for younger children. The vaccine is formulated at one-third the dose of the vaccine used for people 12 and older. Pfizer says a clinical trial showed 90% protection of the vaccine against symptomatic disease among younger children. 

NovaSignal Inc, a Los Angeles-based company, has launched an artificial intelligence guided robotic platform for assessing cerebral blood flow to guide real-time diagnosis. The platform uses ultrasound to capture blood flow data that gets sent to a cloud system. This is the second version of the company's AI-guided platform as it continues to work towards changing brain health management, starting with stroke. 

Bergamo in Italy is dedicating a memorial to honour the five million people who died from COVID. A grove of trees will be planted in a park opposite the hospital where so many died in the Italian city. Called the Woods of Memory, this will be a living monument for the dead. Only 100 trees have been planted so far, but 600 more are planned by next year's Remembrance Day

The word 'Vax' has been chosen as the word of the year by Oxford English Dictionary. The use of the short form of vaccine increased by 72 times from last year and has injected itself into the bloodstream of the English language because of the COVID pandemic. Vax has also been used in words to describe those against the vaccine, such as anti-vax or anti-vaxxers. 


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