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 ...
Peter Marks, FDA’s vaccine chief, said in a statement. While children tend to get less seriously ill than adults, “as the various waves of COVID-19 have occurred, more children have gotten sick with the disease and have been hospitalized,” Marks said. For the updated booster made ...
Yesterday, the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met todiscussupdated COVID-19 booster recommendations for the 2023–2024 viral season. A release statement notes that the CDC recommends an updated booster d...
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...
The updated 2024-25 COVID-19 vaccines will target the JN.1 lineage of the virus, an offshoot of the omicron variant. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration hasasked manufacturersto formulate a vaccine that closely matches the KP.2 strain of JN.1. ...
of the hospital," she said. "And what we know from the (flu) vaccine as well as from these COVID vaccines is that you may get infected, but your symptoms are likely to be a lot less severe. You're much less likely to need to go to the hospital if you got your updated boos...
In Germany, booster shots have been targeted to these groups, while the British government's vaccine committee said only adults 65 and older and some other categories will be offered the shot as they are the most likely to benefit. U.S. CDC panel members said simply recommending the va...
Similar to how flu shots are updated each year, the FDA gave COVID-19 vaccine makers a new recipe for this fall. The updated shots have a single target, an omicron descendant named XBB.1.5. It’s a big change. The COVID-19 vaccines offered since last year are combination shot...
FDA authorizes Novavax's updated COVID vaccine for fall 2023 The new shots are similar to previously approved formulas, but were updated to target the XBB variants of the virus, which became dominant last winter. "Updated COVID booster shots still provide the best protection we have against ...