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COVID-19 vaccines are safe and effective. Vaccines cannot give you COVID-19. You may have side effects after vaccination. These are normal, and should go away in a few days. Can you get a different COVID-19 vaccine booster? Mixing and matching is OK for boosters Through the FDA's aut...
Who should get the fall COVID boosters in 2023? The CDC said it can’t comment on what recommendations the advisory committee could make at its meeting next week, including who – if anyone – would be prioritized in receiving the new boosters. Germaine T. Leftwich, 67, receives a Pfi...
didn’t wait for the arrival of the updated Covid boosters. He opted instead to get one of the previous iterations of the vaccines about a month ago, because of the high levels of Covid transmission this summer.
COVID-19 vaccines tweaked to better match today's omicron threat are expected to roll out in a few weeks but still up in the air is how much benefit the booster shots will offer, who should get one—and how soon.
"My sense is that these are glitches that will be addressed pretty quickly, but if not, please know, first and foremost, you should not have to put money out of pocket to get the COVID vaccine," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told reporters on Sept. 20. ...
The original vaccinations for COVID-19 induce potent antibodies that protect against SARS-CoV-2. But a new Northwestern Medicine study shows the antibodies generated by those prior vaccinations or infections can actually "hurt" the booster shots. That's because these antibodies rapidly "mop up" th...
OnJune 30, 2022, the FDA advised vaccine manufacturers to develop modified ‘bivalent’ COVID vaccine boosters that add an omicron BA.4/5 spike protein to the original recipe. They had previously been developing a new booster based on omicron BA.1 — so it’s back to the drawing board no...
Some people are more likely to get long COVID because they don't have access to proper health care or can't afford it. Having a low income or not being able to get enough rest during the first few weeks of having COVID-19 also seems to raise the risk of getting long COVID, accord...
Find out the best way to care for yourself when recovering from COVID-19, including how long you should quarantine, whether you should get vaccinated, when it is safe to undergo a surgery, and how to spot and, possibly, improve lingering symptoms.