The Food and Drug Administration Wednesday night authorized booster shots of both Johnson & Johnson and Moderna’s Covid vaccines, another critical step in distributing extra
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FDA panel unanimously recommends Moderna Covid booster shots for at-risk adults
A key Food and Drug Administration advisory committee unanimously recommended Thursday giving booster shots of Moderna‘s Covid-19 vaccine to people age 65 and older and
J&J Covid vaccine recipients are better off getting Pfizer or Moderna booster, NIH study suggests
Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines at a senior living facility in Worcester, Pennsylvania, U.S., on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021. Hannah Beier | Bloomberg | Getty Images Johnson
FDA scientists strike favorable tone ahead of vote this week
The staff of the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday struck a more favorable tone on Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 booster shots, saying there may
WHO says global Covid deaths fell to lowest level in a year last week
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference organized by Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak,
U.S. moves closer to clearing Moderna and J&J Covid booster shots this week
Anjali Sundararaman, a student nurse at San Francisco State University, administers a dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Cuixia Xu during a vaccination clinic at
Merck asks FDA to authorize antiviral for emergency use
Merck said Monday it has asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize emergency use of its experimental antiviral pill to treat mild to moderate
UN Secretary calls unequal distribution of Covid vaccines across globe immoral and stupid
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres gestures during an interview with Reuters at the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York, September 15, 2021. Andrew Kelly
Latin America and Caribbean Islands have vaccinated just 37% of populations against Covid, WHO officials say
A maquiladora worker receives a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine at a Lear Corp. factory in Ciudad Jurez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, on Tuesday
WHO says unvaccinated people are ‘dying unnecessarily’ from Covid
Maria Van Kerkhove, head of the World Health Organization’s emerging diseases and zoonosis unit, speaks during a press conference following an emergency committee meeting over
