An Infectious Disease Doctor’s Personal Experience With Covid: It Wasn’t ‘Just’ A Bad Cold
Dr. Mark Kortepeter has studied how to identify and contain infectious diseases for decades. Two and a half years into...
Month: June 2022
The FDA advises updates to COVID vaccines
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said it had advised COVID-19 vaccine companies to produce an updated vaccine for...
Covid-19 Live Updates: Vaccines, Variants and Omicron News
BEIJING — June, for Shanghai, was supposed to be a time of triumph. After two months of strict lockdown, the...
GOP’s Ted Cruz feuds with Elmo over kids getting COVID-19 vaccines
Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas took aim at Sesame Street's "Elmo" after the popular children's show puppet promoted COVID-19...
Real-world study of Pfizer vaccine in kids finds moderate Omicron protection
A real-world study in Israeli children ages 5 to 11 found that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine provided moderate protection against infection...
News Scan for Jun 30, 2022
FDA recommends booster update targets BA.4 and BA.5Following a vaccine advisory group input earlier this week, the Food and Drug...
NYC to provide Paxlovid at Covid-19 testing sites
New York City will begin offering free antiviral medications at mobile testing sites for vulnerable residents who test positive for...
19 more Utahns died of COVID-19, and the number of cases is on the rise
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Danish PM criticised by inquiry over Covid mink-culling scandal
Danish officials have been sharply criticised by a parliamentary inquiry into the botched culling of 17mn farmed mink at the...
N.Y.C. to Offer Paxlovid at Mobile Virus Test Sites, First in U.S.
New York City is creating the first mobile testing units in the United States that will allow people who test...