Similar to previous seasons, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending that all Americans ages 6 months and older get a shot of the "updated 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine" to protect against another expected surge of the virus this fall and winter. ...
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...
This reformulation is why health officials are calling this year's shots the "2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine" or simply the "updated COVID-19 vaccine" —no longer using the word "boosters,"like additional doses have been called in previous rollouts. All Americans, including children as young a...
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...
"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
The success of Aotearoa New Zealand in preventing the spread of the Covid-19 virus was lauded internationally. Domestically, the reception was more complex, as the restrictions and guidelines introduced had considerable social and economic impacts. This profile focuses on the February 2022 occupation ...
McGill University professor Nicole Basta and her team have created an interactive online COVID-19 vaccine tracker, that provides real-time updates on progress in developing a safe and effective vaccine.
“In fact, people who have a health condition or take a medication that compromises their immune system can get an additional dose or doses of the new updated vaccine two months after they get their first dose.” Is there a certain COVID vaccine for people over 64? No, the CDC doesn’...
While the public has grown accustomed to calling additional shots "boosters," health officials are now moving away from the word "booster," instead calling this year's shots the "2023-2024 COVID-19 vaccine" or simply the "updated COVID-19 vaccine." This clarification helps distinguish previous...