"Given waning immunity of the population from previous exposure to the virus and from prior vaccination, we strongly encourage those who are eligible to consider receiving an updated COVID-19 vaccine to provide better protection against currently circulating variants," said Dr. Peter Marks, Director...
Who should get the updated COVID vaccine? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are 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. For most ...
“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’...
"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. ...
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 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 November 13, 2024. The region mostly hit by the virus...
Could it be COVID? Here are the symptoms to watch out for in 2024 Free, at-home COVID tests are back. Here’s how to order yours COVID sickens older adults most severely, but less than half say they’ll get the new vaccine Subscribe to Well Adjusted, our newsletter full of simple...
“The vaccine is based in science, protects against severe disease, may protect against long COVID,” Moorjani said. “Why wouldn’t you take it?” What This Means For You If the FDA accepts the decision of its panel and the CDC signs off later this month, updated COVID booster vaccine...
As the COVID virus continues toevolve, so does our vaccine response. FromDecember 11, Australians will have access tonew vaccinesthat offer better protection. Ad These "monovalent" booster vaccines are expected to be a better match for currently circulating strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that...
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