Moderna’s Omicron-targeted booster shot shows promise
Ahead of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) meeting later this month to discuss updated COVID-19 vaccine strategies, Moderna today...
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S.F.’s COVID positive test rate hits second-highest level ever
The coronavirus test positivity rate in San Francisco, which tracks the percentage of tests coming back positive for COVID-19, topped...
Monkeypox Airborne: Can Masks Prevent the Spread?
Face masks played a key role in preventing the spread of coronavirus. In many countries, wearing them was mandatory and...
COVID in California: More people getting reinfected as new variants emerge, data shows
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee on Tuesday recommended the agency grant emergency use authorization for the...
Coronavirus daily news updates, June 8: What to know today about COVID-19 in the Seattle area, Washington state and the world
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that one in four people over 65 developed a new health...
N.J. reports 19 COVID deaths, 2,828 cases. Novavax vaccine closer to approval.
New Jersey on Wednesday reported 19 new COVID-19 deaths and 2,828 confirmed positive tests as advisers to the Food and...
New omicron subvariants are rising in U.S., and FDA panel gives its backing to Novavax vaccine
The BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants of the highly transmissible omicron variant of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 are spreading rapidly,...
With aid stalled, the White House says it has to shift funds from testing to buy more vaccines and treatments.
WASHINGTON — White House officials said on Wednesday that they would have to repurpose federal Covid-19 funds meant for coronavirus...
Gov. Tim Walz announces three new COVID test-to-treat sites
Minnesotans can get tested and receive a prescription for medication at three new COVID test-to-treat locations that will open later...
New Omicron subvariants raise COVID concerns in California
The upward track of California’s coronavirus case rate may be easing, but contradictory data are muddying the state’s outlook as...