U.S. adults who haven't gotten any COVID-19 shots yet should consider a new option from Novavax—a more traditional kind of vaccine, influential government advisers said Tuesday.
Jul 19, 2022
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People with hematologic malignancies—or blood cancers including leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma—have an impaired immune system due to their disease and its treatment, putting them at risk of severe COVID-19 infection ...
Jul 11, 2022
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The pandemic has hit nursing home residents especially hard, with a disproportionately large share of COVID-19 infection and mortality rates in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Jun 22, 2022
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Moderna hopes to offer updated COVID-19 boosters in the fall that combine its original vaccine with protection against the omicron variant. On Tuesday, it reported a preliminary hint that such an approach might work.
Apr 19, 2022
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With yet another COVID-19 booster available for vulnerable populations in the U.S., many people find themselves wondering what the end game will be.
Apr 18, 2022
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The Biden administration is planning to give Americans age 50 or older the option of a second booster. But is a second booster necessary? Would it differ from the first booster? And who should receive the second booster first?
Mar 29, 2022
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A new study suggests that a single bout of exercise does not change the immune response to a coronavirus booster shot in people with rheumatic autoimmune diseases. The article is published ahead of print in the Journal of ...
Feb 21, 2022
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Pfizer is enrolling healthy adults to test a reformulated COVID-19 vaccine that matches the hugely contagious omicron variant, to see how it compares with the original shots.
Jan 25, 2022
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A coronavirus booster shot provides a better immune response against COVID-19 than a single vaccine dose. mRNA boosters are the most effective upon receiving Janssen. These are the results of a collaborative study between ...
Jan 24, 2022
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As Omicron cases soar along Australia's east coast, many people are faced with having to re-book their vaccination appointments.
Jan 12, 2022
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