A booster of Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine greatly expands protection, as a new study by the companies shows as the number of cases in the US has been rising for weeks and the rate of hospital admissions has started to rise. While the companies plan to submit the data to the Food and Drug … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Medical staff prepare a dose of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine in Sant Vicenc de Casteller, north of Barcelona, this month.Credit…Albert Gea/Reuters Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Thursday that they are developing a version of the coronavirus vaccine that targets Delta, a highly contagious variant that has spread to 98 countries. … Read more
A senior US official suggested on Wednesday that people who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine are likely to be protected against the Delta variant. US surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy told CNBC that data shows that the Oxford-AstraZeneca shot – a “cousin” of the J&J – is highly effective against the variant first identified … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Brazil’s minister of health, Marcelo Queiroga, left, and the U.S. ambassador to Brazil, Todd Chapman, receiving a U.S. shipment of doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid vaccine last week.Credit…Carla Carniel/Reuters WASHINGTON — When a commercial plane carrying 2.5 million doses of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine took off on Wednesday from … Read more
The state of California has launched a tool that gives residents easy access to a digital copy of their COVID-19 vaccine information. Unlike the New York Excelsior Pass, it’s not an app that people need to install on their phones. It’s a simple website that requires residents to enter their name, date of birth, and … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: People walking along a side walk by the beach in Palm Beach, Fla., last week.Credit…Saul Martinez for The New York Times The Florida Department of Health will no longer update its Covid-19 dashboard and will suspend daily case and vaccine reports, the governor’s office confirmed on Friday. Officials will … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine was authorized for emergency use in December.Credit…James Estrin/The New York Times Moderna on Tuesday became the latest pharmaceutical company to apply to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for full approval for its Covid-19 vaccine for use in people 18 and older. F.D.A. approval would allow … Read more
As the US honors its veterans on Memorial Day Monday, restrictions on vaccinated individuals in the country’s cemeteries dedicated to veterinarians have been lifted. The Department of Veterans Affairs announced last week that it was relaxing the rules at the country’s 155 veterans cemeteries. The move came when the VA reported last Monday that there … Read more
Have a nice Friday this holiday weekend! I wish you all a happy, memorable day on Monday as we honor the women and men who lost their lives while serving in the military. Interesting fact (as reported by history.com): Memorial Day, which began in the years after the Civil War and became the official federal … Read more
Daily coronavirus cases continue to trend lower in most states, falling an average of 26,000 over the past month, according to data from Johns Hopkins University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Deaths are also down in the nation. On Jan. 13, the country reported 3,555 deaths, Andy Slavitt, lead advisor on coronavirus … Read more