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Should you get a COVID jab if you’re fit and 40? – POLITICO

As a general guideline, the World Health Organization (WHO) is no longer recommending booster shots for people in low and medium priority groups — which includes healthy adults up to the age of 59 in most countries — provided they have been vaccinated and have received at least one booster.The reason is that the benefit of additional boosters is “marginal” and so is the impact on public health, the organization says. Source: Should you getContinue…

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Keeping COVID-19 and influenza at bay this autumn/winter. Prepare, prevent, protect

WHO/Europe is launching the campaign “Keeping COVID-19 and influenza at bay this autumn/winter. Prepare, prevent, protect” to raise awareness about the pressing need for vulnerable populations to protect themselves from serious illness or death by getting vaccinated against both influenza and COVID-19.  The campaign calls on countries in the WHO European Region to relaunch mitigation efforts and be ready to respond to an increased burden on their health-care systems amid concerns over an autumn andContinue…

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Homophobic misinformation is making it harder to contain the spread of monkeypox | MIT Technology Review

There have been 2,093 confirmed cases of the virus reported worldwide as of June 17. So far cases have mainly been identified among men who have sex with men, according to the World Health Organization. Its director in Europe, which is the epicenter of the current outbreak, sounded the alarm this week, warning that the authorities need to do more to contain the disease.That job is being made harder by false, often homophobic theories thatContinue…

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