WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its guidance on COVID-19 mRNA vaccines, expanding the recommended time between the initial two vaccine doses to eight weeks for certain people. The prior recommended interval between initial...
The interval between the first and second doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines can be 8 weeks for certain people, the CDC said in updated interim guidance.Caitlyn StulpinInfectious Disease News
New research has shown that a longer interval between primary COVID-19 vaccine doses can boost antibody production up to nine-fold. The study will be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal, (April 23-26, 2022)....
Nigeria. Nigerian government on Wednesday destroyed over 1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine withdrawn from across the country after being identified for having a short shelf life. The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA), which coordinates vaccination in the country, ...
411,253,925 doses, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. Those figures are up from the 353,205,544 vaccine doses the CDC said were given by Aug. 11 out of 409,566,315 doses delivered. The country's national public health agency said 196,505,...
U.S. Reaches 323 Million Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine Administered -CDC More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A large vaccination site is shown as people with preexisting health conditions are granted access to a vaccination during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Inglewood, Calif...
The first batch of one million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine developed by China's Beijing-based pharmaceutical company Sinopharm arrived in Belgrade, Serbia at 9:50 a.m. local time on Saturday. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, local officials, and Chinese Ambassador to Serbia ...
The first two cases of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) in Italy were recorded between the end of January and the beginning of February 2020. Since then, the number of cases in Italy increased steadily, reaching over 26.9 million as of January 8, 2025. The region mostly hit by the virus...
Yes, the vaccine is free for children between 3 to 11 years old. 6. How many doses of COVID-19 vaccine shots should children get? Children between 3 to 11 years old should get two doses of COVID-19 vaccine shots. 7. How long do children have to wait after completing the first CO...
That's more than half of the 49,216,500 vaccine doses distributed to vaccination sites so far. More than 4.7 million people have received two doses of either thePfizerorModernavaccine and are therefore fully inoculated against the virus. ...