News & Announcements – UCI Infectious Disease Science

🥼”Only one in 10 people with HCV and an indication offered PrEP, study finds” GoHealio While hepatitis C and HIV share many of the same risk factors, people with HCV are not often discussed as a priority population for HIV prevention

September 27, 2022

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🥼IDSI Affiliate Faculty Theodore Gideonse on MHExecutive “HIV Care and the Trans Community | A Brief Conversation With Theodore Gideonse, Ph.D.” When it comes to HIV care the biggest challenges for trans people are access & discrimination, which are entwined.

September 27, 2022

🥼IDSI Associate Directors Dr.Shruti Gohil ft on Goodhousemag “8 Potential Bivalent Omicron Booster Side Effects to Anticipate, Experts Say”Americans learn more about the new set of bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccines made by teams at Pfizer & Moderna

September 19, 2022

🥼IDSI Affiliated Dr. AndrewNoymer on NY1 “Expert: It’s time to consider a new COVID-19 booster”. COVID-19 remains an important public health concern, with LA County weighing whether to impose another indoor mask mandate.

September 14, 2022

💊”Pelosi blasts ‘extreme MAGA judge’ + Rally to make prison phone calls free” sacbee_news Judge ruled that employers can deny coverage for PrEP: A drug proven to save lives from HIV/AIDS & key strategy for ending the epidemic.

September 12, 2022

🥼”New Malaria Vaccine With 75% Efficacy is a Potential Game-Changer” HealthPolicyW A new R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine shows 75% efficacy in a Phase2b trial – a potentially game-changing result compared to the WHO-approved RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) vaccine.

September 12, 2022

🥼”C. difficile infections fell during the pandemic, but patients had higher mortality, costs” GoHealio Study found high treatment costs & increased mortality in Clostridioides difficile infection within the U.S.

September 12, 2022

🥼Updated COVID-19 booster shots are now available. Here’s what you need to know. CDC and Prevention endorsed use of updated COVID-19 booster shots that are specifically tailored to combat the two most prevalent omicron subvariants, BA.4 & BA.5.

September 6, 2022

CDC and Prevention endorsed use of updated COVID-19 booster shots that are specifically tailored to combat the two most prevalent omicron subvariants, BA.4 & BA.5.

🥼IDSI Affiliated Dr. Andrew Noymer on Educationweek “Student Absences May Spike Due to Low Vaccination Rates, Weaker Immunity”. Food & Drug Administration and CDC & Prevention are expected to greenlight COVID-19 boosters for children to vaccinate.

September 6, 2022

💊CDC Recommends Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine for Adolescents. Director Rochelle P. Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., signed a decision memo that Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine be used as another primary series option for adolescents ages 12 through 17.

August 23, 2022

Pfizer-BioNTech eye authorization of omicron booster for all ages.After requesting emergency use authorization for omicron-adapted vaccine in people aged 12 years+ , Pfizer & BioNTech said to be working w/ FDA on bringing a booster to younger children.

August 23, 2022

🥼#UCI Dr. Davic Souleles ft on EdSource “California colleges open for fall term with relaxed Covid rules”. California public colleges & university students begin returning this month, many welcomed to a full in-person & few Covid-19 testing requirements.

August 23, 2022

💊Slowing the Cross-Border Spread of Infectious Disease. DGMQ’s quarantine stations located at 20 U.S. international airports and other ports of entry work to reduce the spread of infectious diseases as travelers pass into and out of the country.

August 22, 2022

⚕️Dr. Anthony Fauci, America’s top infectious disease expert, set to retire in December. One of the nation’s top infectious disease expert during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced departure from the federal government after more than 5 decades of service.

August 22, 2022

🥼IDSI Affiliated Dr.AndrewNoymer on Washington Examiner “Four things I want to know about the origin of COVID”.Recent article attracts attention for its detailed modeling of the initial post-emergence of the virus SARS-CoV-2 & the disease it causes, COVID-19.

August 22, 2022

📰Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a sweeping rebuke of her agency’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. @CDCgov It had failed to respond quickly enough & needed to be overhauled.

August 18, 2022

💊”U.S. to boost monkeypox vaccine supply with 1.8 million extra doses”. Reuters USA on releasing additional 1.8 million doses of monkeypox vaccines starting Monday & will make up to 50,000 doses available upon request for large LGBTQ events.

August 18, 2022

🥼IDSI Affiliated Dr. Andrew Noymer on Medical_xpress “Does decades-old smallpox vaccination protect against monkeypox?”

August 18, 2022

🖇️Trial finds 100-year-old tuberculosis vaccine offers protection against COVID to high-risk patients and may help with other infectious diseases. BCG group displays fewer infectious-disease symptoms & lesser severity including COVID-19.

August 17, 2022

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🥼Dr. Ilhem Messaoudi ft TheScientistLLC on “How COVID-19 Affects Pregnancy”. #UCI Evidence thus far shows that pregnant people infected with #SARSCoV2 are at higher risk for severe disease and death, as well as complications in their pregnancies.

August 17, 2022