Compared to adults, a smaller share of children will be eligible to get the updated booster, because fewer have gotten the vaccine to begin with. Only around 60.8% of adolescents 12 and older and 31.5% of children 5 and older have so far received even their first two COVID vaccine doses...
New human clinical trial data announced by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech suggest theupdated COVID-19 vaccine boosters introduced this fallwill outperform their original formulation in guarding against the BA.4 and BA.5 variants, the companies said Thursday. The new findings are the first ...
health officials have given the green light for elementary school-age kids to get updated booster doses from both Pfizer and Moderna. (Oct. 12) 2 of 3 | This provided by Pfizer in October 2022 shows manufacturing of the company’s COVID-19 bivalent vaccine for ages 5-11. The U.S....
This is lower than the nearly half of adults who said they planned to get the vaccine in a poll conducted by the KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor in September. Poll results showed that 23% of U.S. adults said they would "definitely" get the updated booster and 23% s...
s history, COVID-19 vaccines saved millions of lives, kept countless people out of the hospital, and provided peace of mind for the country. As fall and winter approach, I encourage everyone six months and older to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine to protect themselves and t...
A healthcare employee prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Dennis Avenue Health Center in Silver Spring, Maryland on November 21, 2022.(Eric Lee for The Washington Post via Getty Images) A new, fourth round of COVID-19 booster shots was approved Tuesday, following th...
According to the latest Kaiser Family Foundation COVD-19 Vaccine Monitor, only about four in 10 adults say they've gotten the new bivalent booster or will get it as soon as they can. Among people 65 and older who haven't gotten the booster, about a third of respondents said that the...
The particular COVID shot that Fauci is referring to this time is a tweaked version of the vaccine, the second booster shot known as the bivalent booster. The first look at the new shots' real-world effectiveness shows they work, he explained. ...
So the new data "reassures us that this was a good decision to move to this bivalent vaccine," FDA vaccine chief Dr. Peter Marks told The Associated Press. "Right now is the time for people to consider going out and get the updated" booster. ...
The FDA has authorized the new bivalent COVID-19 shots—versions made by Pfizer and rival Moderna— as a booster for everyone ages 5 and older.Those combination shots contain half the original vaccine and half tweaked to match the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron strains that until recently were domin...