By MJ Lee The US Food and Drug Administration defended the federal government’s recent decision to stretch out its limited supply of the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine by giving individuals smaller doses using a different method of injection, pointing out in a...
FDA recommends changing composition of Covid-19 vaccines for use this fall
By Jen Christensen Your Covid-19 booster in the fall will likely look a little different going forward. The US Food and Drug Administration decided Thursday to advise manufacturers that when they update the Covid-19 vaccine booster they should add an Omicron...
Michael Osterholm: Covid-19 keeps firing 210-mph curveballs at us
Opinion by Peter Bergen Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University. He is the senior editor of the Coronavirus Daily Brief and author of the...
FDA puts strict limits on Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine
By Katherine Dillinger The US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it is limiting the emergency use authorization of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen Covid-19 vaccine to people 18 and older for whom other vaccines aren’t appropriate or accessible and...
Newer, fitter descendants of Omicron variant begin to drive their own coronavirus waves
By Brenda Goodman There’s no denying the numbers: Even with spotty reporting, Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising again in the United States. Cases are trending up in most states and have increased by more than 50% compared with the previous week in...
Covid-19 still isn’t like the flu
By Deidre McPhillips When Delta Air Lines referred to Covid-19 as an “ordinary seasonal virus” after a federal judge struck down the Biden administration’s mask mandate for public transportation, they were partly right: there is some evidence that it is seasonal. But...
Protection against infection offered by fourth Covid-19 vaccine dose wanes quickly, Israeli study finds
By Jen Christensen A fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine seems to offer short-lived protection against infection overall, but protection against severe illness did not wane for at least several weeks, according to a new study. The study, published...
A 4th dose of Covid-19 vaccine will be needed, Pfizer’s CEO says, but the company is working on a shot to handle all variants
By Jen Christensen and Holly Yan, CNN To help fend off another wave of Covid-19, people will need a fourth dose of vaccine, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told CBS on Sunday."Many variants are coming, and Omicron was the first one that was able to evade -- in a skillful way...
She had a near-death experience because of Covid. But it wasn’t a glimpse of an afterlife that changed her
By John Blake, CNN Two years ago, Covid-19 turned the world upside down. While the pandemic is not over, The Best in Us is a series that highlights people whose pandemic stories exemplify the resilience of the human spirit. (CNN)The doctor pleaded with Paige...
Surgeon general tests positive for Covid-19
By Sonnet Swire and Rachel Janfaza, CNN US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy announced Friday that he has tested positive for Covid-19. Murthy wrote in a long thread on Twitter that his wife and 5-year-old son were also positive for the virus and had mild...
Hybrid immunity offers increased protection that is longer-lasting against Covid-19 reinfection, studies show
By Tasnim Ahmed, CNN Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 mRNA vaccine provides an added layer of protection against reinfection for people who have been previously infected with Covid-19, as well as increased immune durability over time, according to two studies published...
SCOTUS hears oral arguments on Biden vaccine and testing mandates
By Tierney Sneed, Adrienne Vogt, Aditi Sangal, Melissa Macaya, Meg Wagner and Melissa Mahtani, CNN Key things to know about today's oral arguments — and what could happen next Nearly an hour and a half after it started, the oral arguments in the health care...
Facing criticism, CDC updates Covid-19 isolation recommendations with guidance on testing
By Kaitlan Collins, John Bonifield and Nikki Carvajal The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidance on the recommended Covid-19 isolation period Tuesday, telling people that if they have access to a Covid-19 test and want to take it, the best...
Cornell University reports more than 900 Covid-19 cases this week. Many are Omicron variant cases in fully vaccinated students
By Elizabeth Stuart and Sarah Boxer, CNN Cornell University reported 903 cases of Covid-19 among students between December 7-13, and a "very high percentage" of them are Omicron variant cases in fully vaccinated individuals, according to university officials.The...
Germany locks down unvaccinated people, as leaders plan to make shots compulsory
By Nadine Schmidt and Frederik Pleitgen, CNN Germany on Thursday announced a nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated, as its leaders backed plans for mandatory vaccinations in the coming months.Unvaccinated people will be banned from accessing all but the most...