Health officials have long acknowledged that the rollout of this year's new COVID-19 vaccines would likely arrive too late for many Americans infected by this summer's wave of the virus. "It's very difficult to try to time COVID vaccine before an oncoming surge. And so I think what we...
Why the CDC recommends everyone get the new COVID vaccine booster for fall 2023 The rollout of the shots will also mark three major shifts in the U.S. response to the virus: the end of government-bought vaccine supplies, a simplification of who is eligible to get shots and a significant...
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 1, 2025. The region mostly hit by the virus...
Medical News & Perspectives COVID-19 and mRNA Vaccines—First Large Test for a New Approach Jennifer Abbasi JAMA In August, the government of India granted Emergency Use Authorization to a COVID-19 DNA vaccine. Pharmaceutical firm Zydus Cadila, in partnership with India’s Department of Biotechnol...
Doses Delivered: The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses that have been delivered to immunizing providers since December 14, 2020, including hospitals, community health centers, clinics, mass vaccination hubs and pharmacies. Doses Administered: The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses that have been ...
"The question about whether there's going to be another variant that is even more transmissible and more infectious than Omicron, we don't know yet," Dr. Katrina Pollock, who leads the COVID-19 vaccine project at the ICL, told Xinhua in an online interview on Thursday. ...
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet are developing a coronavirus vaccine designed to be less sensitive to mutations and equipped for future strains. The vaccine showed promising results in mice in a newly published study in EMBO Molecular Medicine, and
pharmaceutical giant Moderna said its COVID-19 vaccine protects against two new variants of the coronavirus. The company said the vaccine triggered an immune response to "all key emerging variants," including those first identified in the UK and South Africa. The researchers looked ...
September 13, 2023 6:51pm EDT COVID-19 vaccine: CDC panel recommends shots for ages 6 months and older Americans may soon be able to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. Advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday endorsed the new shots for everyone 6 months of age...
COVAX, the World Health Organization's vaccine alliance, says it is doubling the supply of COVID-19 treatments it will make available in 2021. Around 2 billion doses will be due for delivery in spring. The body, which has a facility in Geneva Switzerland, is the ...