F.D.A. Debates Vaccines for Children: Covid-19 Live Updates
A vaccination site in March in Los Angeles. The Food and Drug Administration is debating a Covid vaccine for very...
Vaccines
FDA committee approves Moderna COVID vaccine for kids 6 to 17
In a move poised to bring a second COVID-19 vaccine to the market for US kids, the Food and Drug...
News Scan for Jun 14, 2022
Texting as effective as calling for encouraging COVID vaccine uptakeAutomated text messages were as effective as direct phone calls in...
California coronavirus cases remain elevated as wave continues
The number of newly reported coronavirus cases remains elevated across California as health officials continue to wrestle with the pandemic’s...
Will the US Overcome Its Covid Complacency Even as the Threat Returns?
A few months ago, it seemed as though the country was poised to finally tame the pandemic, after two years...
F.D.A. Panel Debates Covid Vaccines for Youngest Kids
Outside advisers to the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday will consider applications from Moderna and Pfizer to vaccinate the...
Workers’ Summit of the Americas opposes imperialism
The Workers’ Summit of the Americas, a coalition of more than 50 trade unions and social organizations from North and...
Data show low level of COVID rebound with Paxlovid
A study of nearly 500 high-risk patients treated with Paxlovid for their COVID-19 infections found that only a few had...
Study spotlights Omicron’s impact on unvaccinated, rural Americans
Though it causes less severe disease than the Delta variant, the highly transmissible Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant has been twice as...
Coronavirus Today: Will COVID-19 take a summer vacation?
Good evening. I’m Karen Kaplan, and it’s Tuesday, June 14. Here’s the latest on what’s happening with the coronavirus in...