Immunocompromised Patients Worry Vaccine Exemptions Put Them in Peril

Charlie O’Neill received part of her husband’s liver in a 2013 living donor transplant and has been taking drugs that suppress her immune system ever since to prevent her body from attacking the organ. “I frequently get infections,” she said. “Just being an immune-compromised person, you are faced with just every little cold and flu.” … Read more

Pfizer CEO Pushes Yearly Shots for Covid. Not So Fast, Experts Say.

When Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said March 13 that all Americans would need a second booster shot, it struck many covid experts as a self-serving remark without scientific merit. It also set off spasms of doubt over the country’s objectives in its fight against the coronavirus. The decision on how often and widely to vaccinate … Read more

Médicos voluntarios comparten información sobre las vacunas de covid con detenidos de ICE

http://radiobilingue.org/features/doctores-ofrecen-salvavidas-telefonico-a-migrantes-internos-en-riesgo-de-covid/ “¿Es obligatorio tener el refuerzo?”, preguntó Figueroa en español. “¿Y por qué lo necesito?”. Turner-Lloveras, especialista en medicina interna, responde a este tipo de preguntas una vez por semana como médico voluntario para el programa Covid-19 Vaccine Education & Empowerment in Detention (VEED), una alianza entre California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice y Latino Coalition … Read more

Sharing Covid Vax Facts Inside ICE Detention, One Detainee at a Time

The sounds of wailing ambulances, car horns, and bustling traffic filtered into the high-rise home office of Dr. Daniel Turner-Lloveras in downtown Los Angeles as he settled into a brown leather couch to take a call. On the other end of the line, staring at a mint-green wall inside a plexiglass phone booth with little … Read more