New COVID vaccine Last month, the Food and Drug Administration approved updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna for the 2024 fall season. Moderna and Pfizer's shots were revised this year to target the KP.2 variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as part of...
"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. "I think it's ...
Other vaccine makers on the case Other drugmakers said they're also investigating how the new variant interacts with their COVID-19 vaccine. A spokesperson with Johnson & Johnson told CBS MoneyWatch that the company is "already testing the effectiveness of our vaccine against the new and ...
“We know that this virus is most likely to cause severe illness, with people over age 75 accounting forsince last fall, andof people over age 65 directly due to COVID-19 last year,”, a senior advisor to the poll and an infectious disease physician at, said in a. “The vaccine offe...
A COVID-19 vaccine that could provide protection against both existing and future strains of the COVID-19 virus, and other coronavirusesat a cost of about $1 a dose has shown promising results in early animal testing. Vaccines created by UVA Health's Dr. Steven L. Zeichner and Virginia ...
This study, conducted by a team of clinical researchers at Radboud university medical center, investigated safety and tolerability of the vaccine. 45 healthy study participants, who had not yet had COVID-19 and had not been vaccinated, received two doses of the new vaccine. They were followed...
Single dose: The dose administered of a single-dose primary vaccine series (Johnson & Johnson) Additional/booster doses: Doses administered after the primary COVID-19 vaccine series, including monovalent booster and monovalent additional doses for people with a weakened immune system. ...
Moderna and Pfizer are bothnow testing their vaccines on kids between the ages of 12 and 17. For now, it's undetermined when the COVID-19 vaccine will be tested on kids ages 11 and younger. When will I find out when my kids and I are eligible to get vaccinated? What should we do...
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The study followed 900 hospital staff members in Vietnam who received the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in March and April 2021. Despite all staff members testing negative for Covid-19 in May, the first case among the vaccinated group was detected on June 11th. ...