Justin Sullivan | Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration has laid out a road map for what Covid-19 vaccination may look like moving forward. In a briefing document published Monday, the FDA sai...
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Chinese travelers ready to flock overseas for Western mRNA vaccines
Passengers prepare to enter Shenzhen through the Lok Ma Chau Spur Line Control Point on the first day of the resumption of normal travel between Hong Kong and mainland China on Jan. 8, 2023, in Hong K...
Biden administration will end monkeypox public health emergency
People line up to get a monkeypox vaccination at a new walk-up monkeypox vaccination site at Barnsdall Art Park on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022 in Hollywood, CA. Brian Van Der Brug | Los Angeles Times | Get...
China Plans To Boost Vaccinations Among Seniors As Harsh Zero Covid Strategy Triggers Protests
Topline China’s National Health Commission on Tuesday unveiled plans to improve Covid-19 vaccination rates among the elderly—a cohort that remains highly vulnerable to the virus due to very low uptake...
Oil Climbs as China Boosts Vaccinations, Investors Look to OPEC+
(Bloomberg) — Oil rose as China refined its approach for dealing with Covid-19 after widespread protests against strict curbs, and investors looked ahead to an OPEC+ meeting that may see a suppl...
Omicron BQ variants dominant, XBB circulating at low level
A person receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 22, 2021. Andrew Kelly | Reuters The omicron ...
Measles poses threat to kids as vaccinations declined due to Covid
A growing number of children around the world are vulnerable to measles as vaccination rates have declined to the lowest levels since 2008, global health leaders warned on Wednesday. The Covid-19 pand...
Covid vaccines prevented at least 330,000 deaths among U.S. seniors in 2021
Covid vaccines prevented at least 330,000 deaths and nearly 700,000 hospitalizations among adult Medicare recipients in 2021, the Health and Human Services Department said in a new report published Fr...
Child polio vaccination rate low in some New York areas, increasing outbreak risk
Nurse Lydia Fulton prepares to administer the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine as well as a vaccine used to help prevent the diseases of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, and polio at Children&...
President Joe Biden likely has Covid-19 BA.5 variant; symptoms improving
President Joe Biden, who tested positive today for Covid-19 this morning, posts on Twitter “Folks, I’m doing great. Thanks for your concern. Just called Senator Casey, Congressman Cartwrig...
Covid Sparked Largest Sustained Decline In Global Childhood Vaccinations In 30 Years, WHO Says
Topline The Covid-19 pandemic helped fuel the largest continuous decline in global childhood vaccinations in three decades from 2019 to 2021, according to data released Thursday by the World Health Or...
Beijing city to require Covid vaccinations for some public venues
Chinese cities like Beijing, pictured here on July 6, 2022, require negative virus tests from within the last 72 hours in order to enter most public spaces. Kevin Frayer | Getty Images News | Getty Im...
What’s required to travel to Thailand? Only one Covid document now
Travelers wondering what it’s like to visit Thailand now may be interested to know the country is “allowing almost everything” again. That’s according to the Tourism Authority ...
Vaccinations for children under 5 due as early as June 21
A nurse administers a pediatric dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to a girl at a L.A. Care Health Plan vaccination clinic at Los Angeles Mission College in the Sylmar neighborhood in Los Angeles, Californi...
Stephen Roach gives stagflation warning, calls peak inflation absurd
Stagflation is making a comeback, according to former Morgan Stanley Asia chairman Stephen Roach. He warns the U.S. is on a dangerous path that leads to higher prices coupled with slower growth. ̶...
Medical professionals are skeptical on a fourth Covid vaccine dose
There hasn’t been enough research on how much protection a fourth dose can offer, medical professionals told CNBC. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Countries are beginning to offer a fourth dose o...
UK to roll out additional vaccine shot for over 75s, vulnerable people
A member of the military vaccinates a woman at the COVID-19 mass vaccination centre at Pentwyn Leisure Centre on February 3, 2021 in Cardiff, Wales. Matthew Horwood | Getty Images News | Getty Images ...
Is it safe to travel if I’m vaccinated and recovered from Covid
Millions of people are now vaccinated, boosted and newly recovered from Covid-19 infections caused by the omicron variant. They have what some outside the medical community have labeled “super i...
Australia, New Zealand, Bali, Malaysia, Philippines reopen for travel
Another day — another border reopens. In the past two weeks, a slew of countries announced plans to reopen or relax border restrictions. This includes places that have maintained some of the str...
Covid will never become an endemic virus, scientist warns
JaruekChairak | iStock | Getty Images Covid-19 will never become an endemic illness and will always behave like an epidemic virus, an expert in biosecurity has warned. Raina MacIntyre, a professor of ...
Leadership of China’s Xi threatened by Covid, real-estate crisis
George Soros, billionaire founder of Soros Fund Management LLC, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2020. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chinese leader Xi Jinping&#...
Covid vaccine skepticism fueling wider anti-vax sentiment, doctors say
Protestors demonstrate against Covid vaccine mandates outside the New York State Capitol in Albany, New York, on January 5, 2022. Mike Segar | Reuters Skepticism toward Covid-19 vaccines could be fuel...
Covid pandemic at a ‘critical juncture,’ WHO’s Tedros says
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a press conference on December 20, 2021 at the WHO headquarters in Geneva Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images The Covid-19 pandemic is a...
Kids under 5 can’t get Covid vaccines. Doctors explain how to protect them during omicron
Students in the 5 day pre-K class at Immanuel Unite Church of Christ line up to go outside after helping to sort donated food items. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Covid hospitalizations a...
Pacific Islands’ zero-Covid strategies unsustainable, professor says
People wearing face masks at a supermarket in Suva, Fiji, April 23, 2021. Xinhua News Agency | Getty Images Countries all over the world have seen Covid-19 cases surge since the emergence of the highl...