Long Island parents had mixed reactions Tuesday to the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of a COVID-19 booster shot for kids. US authorizes COVID vaccine booster shot for kids ages 5 to 11 The FDA cleared the booster for children... Read More
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A couple of factors are at play, starting with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant. Omicron is more likely to infect people, even if it doesn’t make them very sick, and its surge coincided with the holiday travel season in... Read More
With Pfizer’s children’s vaccine officially available for emergency use, some cities and states are looking to get as many of America’s kids vaccinated. And they’re getting creative with the process. In NYC, kids who... Read More
Top U.S. health officials announced a plan to begin offering COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans beginning next month. NBC News reports the booster shots will be offered to all Americans beginning the third week of... Read More
U.S. experts are expected to recommend COVID-19 vaccine boosters for all Americans, regardless of age, eight months after they received their second dose of the shot, to ensure lasting protection against the coronavirus as the delta variant spreads... Read More
According to their executives, partners Pfizer and BioNTech will be able to supply the US with 200M Covid-19 vaccines by late May, 2 months earlier than the companies’ original projections. A change in the vaccine’s label now permits 6... Read More
Yesterday, the UK authorized the COVID-19 vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford. Amidst the coronavirus chaos in the UK (they have a new variant and it’s more infectious than regular COVID), 2 different vaccines are... Read More