Dr. Peter Marks, the FDA's vaccine chief, said Thursday that once authorized, the tweaked boosters could help right away—while BA.5 infections still are too high—as well as hopefully blunt yet another winter surge. Marks told the Associated Press that the new boosters could rev up the im...
New human clinical trial data announced by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech suggest theupdated COVID-19 vaccine boosters introduced this fallwill outperform their original formulation in guarding against the BA.4 and BA.5 variants, the companies said Thursday. The new findings are the first ...
Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, 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...
While vaccination provides effective protection, the immunity generated by COVID vaccines wanes in the months afterwards. The coronavirus has also continued to evolve over time, with more recent delta and omicron variants better atavoiding the body's defensesthan earlier forms of the virus. With thi...
Update: On November 19, the CDC’s independent panel of vaccine scientists endorsed Covid-19 vaccine boosters for all adults. Covid-19 booster shots are more available than ever–but that doesn’t mean you ought to recommend them to your staff. On Monday, health officials in New York City...
“You can get both your flu shot and Covid booster at the same time, and getting vaccinated early in the fall will protect you before the flu really takes off.” Updated Covid boosters targeting the omicron variant are available now to anyone age 5 and up. Check your community spread ...
Plus, the need to deploy vaccines or boosters targeting new variants would complicate the already rocky rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, in part due to inexperience in vaccinating US adults en masse. “How do we deploy this?” Baylor said of next-generation COVID-19 vaccines. “When do we pu...
Doctors explain the incubation period of COVID-19, what the symptoms are, vaccination benefits, and when you stop being contagious if you're infected.
Living With Long COVID The most-reported long COVID symptoms are fatigue, shortness of breath,joint pain, and brain fog. Here are some ways to cope with them: Fatigue:See how you can break up tasks into smaller chunks, and don't be afraid to take a rest in between. ...
The wide range of symptoms - many of which overlap with other common infections - can make it difficult to tell the difference between COVID-19 and any of the other myriad illnesses that children can pick up. “Not every stuffy nose is COVID,” Emma explains. “The biggest difference we...