COVID-19 vaccine

The COVID-19 public health emergency may be officially over, but COVID has not completely disappeared from concern. In fact, Lexington hospitals are seeing an increase in COVID patients this summer. With a new COVID vaccine coming this fall, the UK Pharmacist Care Clinic's Jim Hallahan, Pharm.D., and Ryan Babb, Pharm.D., answer some questions you may have. Dr. Greg talks one on one with Hallahan.

Just because the COVID pandemic has been downgraded to an endemic our go-to guy on the virus has some advice for summer travelers. University of Kentucky clinical microbiologist Dr. Vaneet Arora is the guest this week on Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine.

University of Kentucky College of Public Health (CPH) researchers, in collaboration with investigators from the UK College of Medicine, the UK College of Communication and Information and the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH), are leading a five-year, $3.7 million project to study COVID-19 vaccination hesitancy in Eastern Kentucky. Dr. Greg talks with co-principal investigator Marc T. Kiviniemi, Ph.D.

As the COVID-19 pandemic approaches the three year mark, University of Kentucky clinical microbiologist Dr. Vaneet Arora says both the virus - and the efforts to combat it - continue to evolve. Dr. Arora joins Greg for an update.

This week Dr. Greg talks with friend and colleague Vaneet Arora, Associate Professor and Associate Director - Clinical Microbiology in the UK College of Medicine, about how best to avoid the potential triple whammy of COVID 19, influenza, and RSV.

As of Monday September 12th new bivalent Covid vaccines are available for people who meet certain criteria. This week on Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine, we get the scoop from Vince Venditto, assistant professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the UK College of Pharmacy.

The University of Kentucky will begin offering the bivalent COVID-19 booster vaccines by appointment only at the Blue Box Theater beginning today for all faculty, staff and students. Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the newly authorized bivalent booster targets new variants of the virus, offering more protection heading into the fall and winter seasons.

The BA.5 omicron subvariant, which is now the most prevalent coronavirus strain in the United States, is four times more resistant to COVID-19 vaccines, according to a new study by the Mayo clinic, but health officials say those shots remain your best defense against the virus. This week Dr. Greg talks again with Vaneet Arora, Associate Director - Clinical Microbiology in the UK College of Medicine, about the latest developments in the seemingly never ending battle against SARS-CoV-2.

The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is now available for the youngest among us, children ages six months to five years, at the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department. Karyn Czar reports.

A bill seeking to prohibit "discrimination based on immunization status" is on the move in the Kentucky General Assembly.