A COVID-19 vaccine designed to be inexpensive and easy to mass produce globally has received emergency use authorization from India’s government, according to a statement from the vaccine’s manufacturer, Biological E. Limited. The CORBEVAX vaccine is the ninth COVID-19 vaccine to receive ...
CDC says COVID variant EG.5 is now dominant, including strain some call "Eris" Loss of smell or taste was once a telltale sign of COVID. Not anymore. "There doesn't seem to be any particular advantage to a bivalent vaccine. XBB is the lineage right now, and there is good cross-pr...
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 ...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday it is tracking a recently discovered COVID-19 strain, BA.2.86, after a case of the highly mutated variant was discovered in Michigan. "Today we are more prepared than ever to detect and respond to changes in the CO...
(polymerase chain reaction) tests used in the United Kingdom happen to already distinguish the new strain: just two of the three markers recognize the new strain, enabling a rapid distinction to be made between the two. Within the UK, it appears that the epicenter of ...
Next month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's vaccines advisory committee will meet to discuss recommendations for the variant mix for this winter's Covid-19 vaccine, havingpostponedan earlier discussion to collect more data.
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An elderly woman receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, March 22, 2022. (Xinhua/Liu Lei) SCIENCE-BASED, TIMELY AND NECESSARY ADJUSTMENTS After fighting Omicron for nearly a whole year, China has gained a profound understanding of this ...
"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. ...
time that deliveries of flu shots are arriving in clinics. That is the result of an earlier CDC vote to recommend the shots over the summer and an earlier FDA selection of the strain to be targeted by the shots, moving it closer to the annual process to update the seasonal flu vaccine....