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FDA Authorizes Updated COVID-19 Boosters

  On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized two freshly revised COVID-19 boosters: one created by Moderna and one by Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech. The original SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variant, which was the target of the first...

US FDA Authorizes Use of Merck Anti-Covid Pill

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the Merck anti-covid coronavirus pill on Thursday, just one day after it OK'd the use of Pfizer's pill for the treatment of the virus. Called molnupiravir, the pill had already been authorized for...

Study Shows Omicron Variant Partially Evades Vaccine’s Protection

Researchers studying the effects of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine on the Omicron variant announced on Tuesday that the variant is partially capable of evading the vaccine's protection. The team, which has been working in South Africa since the discovery of the...

CDC Approves Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine for Children, Rollout Begins

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved Pfizer/BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in children 5 to 11 on Tuesday, the final step needed to begin the vaccine rollout for eligible kids. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced that the...

FDA Rejects Pfizer’s Booster Shot Request

A Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory panel voted against giving Pfizer/BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine booster shot to the majority of the population. The FDA decided that booster shots would only be necessary for those over the age of 65 as...

Biden Announces Vaccine Mandate for 100 Million Workers

President Joe Biden has announced his most dramatic vaccine mandate yet on Thursday, introducing a new federal vaccine requirement that will force up to 100 million workers across the United States to be inoculated against COVID-19. In a speech given...

Hospitalizations of Children with Delta Variant Soar in US

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that there are much higher Covid-19-related hospitalization rates for children now that the Delta variant of the virus is dominant throughout the world. In a disturbing trend, coronavirus–associated hospitalization rates among...

Pfizer Covid-19 Vaccine Gets Full Approval by the FDA

The Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine finally got full approval by the FDA today after months of study. The vaccine was the first on the world market. The vaccine had been given priority review treatment by the FDA as of July 20,...

Germany Will Have Vaccine Booster Shots by September

Germany will have vaccine booster shots ready as early as September, the country's health authorities said on Monday. Health Minister Jens Spahn and his team of regional health ministry officials agreed that those with a pre-existing medical condition that...

Pfizer Data Indicates Third Shot May Work Well Against Delta Variant

New data presented by Pfizer indicates that a third booster shot of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine may significantly increase protection against the Delta variant of COVID. The data shows that antibodies in those ages ages 18 to 55 increase...