Topline Covid-19 vaccines saved almost 20 million lives worldwide during the first year they were rolled out, according to a mathematical modeling study published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases on ...
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CDC Signs Off On Covid Vaccines For Young Children—Shots To Begin Next Week
Topline Two Covid-19 vaccines aimed at young children cleared their final regulatory hurdle Saturday afternoon, with CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky recommending the shots for the final large segme...
CDC Panel Recommends Covid Vaccines For Young Children
Topline A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel voted unanimously Saturday to recommend Covid vaccines for children under 5, in one of the final regulatory steps before shots can g...
CDC advisors recommend Covid vaccines for children as young as 6 months
A child is administered a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pediatric vaccine. Mayela Lopez | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent vaccin...
DeSantis Changes Mind—Allows Florida To Buy Covid Vaccines For Kids 5 And Younger
Topline Florida has joined all 49 other states ordering Covid vaccines through a federal program for children age 5 and younger, according to multiple reports, after Governor Ron DeSantis (R) faced im...
Moderna And Pfizer Covid Vaccines For Young Children Endorsed By FDA Panel
Topline A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee on Wednesday voted unanimously to recommend Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines for young children, a step that could clear the wa...
EU Will Buy 110,000 Monkeypox Vaccines As Global Outbreak Grows
Topline The European Union on Tuesday will ink a deal for 110,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine, the bloc’s health commissioner Stella Kyriakides announced, as officials around the world move to secure s...
Pfizer, Moderna Covid Vaccines Are Effective In Young Children, FDA Says—Here’s How They Differ And What Happens Next
Topline Three doses of Pfizer’s vaccine and a two-doses of Moderna’s shot are safe and effective in preventing illness from Covid-19 in young children, according to assessments provided by the Food an...
Novavax’s New Covid-19 Vaccine Might Be Late to the Party
It’s one thing to arrive fashionably late to a party, it’s another thing to waltz in when the last guests are stumbling out the door. For Novavax , which on Tuesday cleared a key step toward U.S. Food...
The CDC is sending monkeypox vaccines to people at high risk in a race to prevent the spread
Test tubes labelled “Monkeypox virus positive and negative” are seen in this illustration taken May 23, 2022. Dado Ruvic | Reuters The Biden administration has distributed 1,200 monkeypox...
Children Under 5 May Get Covid Vaccines Starting In Late June, White House Says
Topline Children under 5 could begin receiving Covid-19 vaccine shots in the U.S. as early as June 21 if federal agencies authorize them promptly, White House Covid-19 response coordinator Dr. Ashish ...
Tonix’s stock jumps 43% on patent for experimental pox vaccines
Shares of Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp. TNXP, +45.55% gained 43.8% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the company said the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a patent to the company...
Vaccines Could Have Prevented At Least 318,000 Deaths, Study Suggests
Topline A minimum of 318,000 Covid-19 related deaths spanning from January 2021 to April 2022 would have been avoided with readily available vaccines, based on research spearheaded by Brown University...
Novavax posts first quarterly profit, but misses expectations
Shares of Novavax Inc. dropped more than 6% in the extended session Monday after the biotech company reported its first profitable quarter, but not by as much as Wall Street expected, and its sales we...
U.S. will limit Covid vaccines to high-risk people this fall if Congress doesn’t approve more funding
The U.S. will have to limit the next generation of Covid vaccines this fall to individuals at the highest risk of getting seriously sick from the virus if Congress fails to approve funding to purchase...
BioNTech Earnings Top Forecasts on Strong Sales of Covid-19 Vaccine
Text size BioNTech is continuing to work with Pfizer on follow-on Covid-19 vaccines. (Photo by THOMAS LOHNES/AFP via Getty Images) BioNTech , the German biotech company, reported first-quarter earning...
Antibodies From Covid Vaccines May Be Weaker Against Omicron, Study Finds
Topline Antibodies produced by Covid-19 vaccines and booster shots may be less effective at defending against the omicron variant than previous coronavirus strains, a study by researchers at Johns Hop...
Nearly 240,000 Covid-19 Deaths Could Have Been Prevented With Vaccines, Study Finds
Topline Nearly 240,000 deaths resulting from Covid-19 since June 2021 could have been avoided with “timely” vaccinations, new research from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows, as the U.S. approaches a...
New Covid vaccine’s omicron results improve on current shots
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Giorgio Companies site in Blandon, PA where the CATE Mobile Vaccination Unit was onsite to administer Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines...
Covid Cases Rise In 32 States Amid New Virus Strain—But White House Says Vaccines Are ‘Holding Up’
Topline Covid-19 cases are rising in more than half of all states due to the new coronavirus subvariant, but White House Covid-19 advisor Dr. Ashish Jha said Sunday the vaccines are still “holding up”...
California Nixes Bill To Require Covid Vaccines In Schools
Topline A California lawmaker on Thursday withdrew from consideration a bill that would’ve required children in grades K-12 to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in order to attend California schools—the ...
Pfizer’s New CFO David Denton Negotiated One of the Biggest Healthcare Deals in History
Pfizer on Monday named a new chief financial officer with a resume that hints at the company’s plans to spend big with its Covid-19 vaccine windfall. David Denton is taking up the CFO role at Pfizer (...
U.S. has until June to decide on new vaccines for this fall, FDA official says
A volunteer is injected with a vaccine as he participates in a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination study at the Research Centers of America, in Hollywood, Florida, September 24, 2020. Marco Bel...
Senators reach $10 billion Covid funding deal for therapeutics, vaccines and testing
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) speaks during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine the federal response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and new emerging v...
FDA says Covid vaccines may need to be updated to ensure high level of effectiveness against virus
A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Va...
Heart Complications More Likely From Covid Than From Vaccines, Study Finds
Topline Covid vaccines that use mRNA technology carry a slight risk of heart complications for some individuals, but far less than the risk of heart complications that comes with having a Covid infect...
Pfizer, Moderna and J&J Face Shareholder Pressure to Broaden Covid-19 Vaccine Access
Socially conscious investors and global-health activists are turning to shareholders to press Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers Pfizer Inc., Moderna Inc. and Johnson & Johnson to make more of their s...
Biden says U.S. will deploy new Covid vaccines within 100 days if another variant emerges
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address during a joint session of Congress in the U.S. Capitol’s House Chamber March 01, 2022 in Washington, DC. Win Mcnamee | Getty Imag...
Novavax Gets a Sell Rating. It’s Got a Covid Vaccine Problem, Analyst Says.
Text size A healthcare worker prepares a dose of Nuvaxovid vaccine. Jeroen Jumelet/ANP/AFP via Getty Images Novavax stock was dropping Friday after receiving a Sell-equivalent rating — the first since...