Drug company Moderna says its combined flu and Covid vaccine, which targets the two diseases in a single shot, has passed a vital part of final-stage scientific checks.The phase-three trial shows the vaccine arms the body with protective antibodies.And it does so as effectively as separate flu and Covid shots, results suggest.Fewer injections would be […]
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Fauci admits risk of Myocarditis with new vaccine
Comments made by Dr. Anthony Fauci about the updated COVID-19 vaccine have sparked a backlash on social media, with critics falsely claiming that he had admitted for the first time that it is linked to myocarditis. Fauci appeared on ABC‘s This Week on Sunday, a day before the Food and Drug Administration approved the newest shots from Moderna and Pfizer for most Americans. The […]
Will you pay $130 a shot for Covid vaccine?
The U.S. government paid around $10 billion in the early years of the pandemic to develop and purchase Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine as part of Operation Warp Speed. So far, any American who wants the shot has paid nothing out-of-pocket for it — the federal government has footed the bill. But once it’s time to switch […]
Fingerprints of unvaccinated NYC teachers sent to FBI
The fingerprints of unvaccinated New York City teachers were reportedly sent to the FBI with “problem code” flags, prompting outrage from former educators who lost their jobs over the mandate. Earlier this month, John Bursch, who is representing teachers who are suing the city over the mandate, said teachers who refused the shot now have […]
FDA to roll out a new COVID vaccination strategy
A committee of advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on a proposal to simplify the nation’s strategy for vaccinating people against COVID-19. The recommendation is that future COVID-19 vaccines should be interchangeable: no matter whether you’re getting your first dose or a booster, the vaccines would all have the same formulation targeting […]
Will Covid Boosters Prevent Another Wave?
As winter looms and Americans increasingly gather indoors without masks or social distancing, a medley of new coronavirus variants is seeding a rise in cases and hospitalizations in counties across the nation. The Biden administration’s plan for preventing a national surge depends heavily on persuading Americans to get updated booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and […]
Last week, “Pandemic over” This week, “Global Health emergency”
During an appearance at the White House on Tuesday, President Joe Biden said that COVID-19 is still a “global health emergency” despite his previous insistence that the “pandemic is over.” Biden appeared alongside doctors who are leading his administration’s efforts to stop the spread of the virus, the AP reported. The President is urging Americans […]
Vaccine for Cancer could be ready by 2030
The world could be only a few years away from a cancer vaccine, according to the couple behind the Pfizer/BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine. “We feel that a cure for cancer or to changing cancer patients’ lives is in our grasp,” professor Ozlem Tureci told BBC News in an interview over the weekend. Her husband, professor Ugur […]
New Omicron Booster tested only on mice
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is using a controversial strategy to evaluate the next generation of COVID-19 boosters. The approach is stirring debate as the agency works to make new, hopefully improved, boosters available in September to help prevent severe disease and save lives in the fall and winter. For the first time, the […]
US now has the world’s biggest monkeypox outbreak
The story of monkeypox feels to experts frustratingly like a replay of the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Testing took too long to get launched. Data hasn’t revealed the full extent of the outbreak. The spread wasn’t stopped quickly enough. Monkeypox was supposed to be different, because it is much harder to […]
If you have had Covid, chances are you’ll get it again
A few months ago, we believed recovering from COVID-19 meant the chances of getting the virus again so soon were low. Scientists thought we were protected for at least six months after the initial infection. But now, as the hyper-transmissible BA.5 variant whips around the country, more and more reinfections are being detected in people […]
This season’s flu vaccine not effective
The flu vaccine has not been a great a match for the predominant viruses this season, preliminary data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows — but the season isn’t over, and the estimate could change. The vaccine was only about 16 percent effective at reducing a person’s chance of getting a […]