By Apoorva Mandavilli As the coronavirus morphs into a stubborn and unpredictable facet of everyday life, scientists and federal health officials are converging on a new strategy for immunizing Americans: a vaccination campaign this fall, perhaps with doses that are...
Danish physicians and scientists affiliated with that Nordic nation's prestigious Statens Serum Institut in Copenhagen and Zealand University Hospital in Naestved report that a study involving 128 patients published in the peer-reviewed JAMA Network Open reveals a...
By Robert Hart Immunity against the omicron coronavirus variant fades rapidly after a second and third dose of Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, according to peer reviewed research published in JAMA Network Open on Friday, a finding that could...
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...
By Karen J. Hager, M.Sc., et al. Abstract BACKGROUND Coronavirus-like particles (CoVLP) that are produced in plants and display the prefusion spike glycoprotein of the original strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are combined with an...
BY: HENRY REDMAN In a video interview published on the right-wing social media platform Rumble, Sen. Ron Johnson said it “may be true” that vaccines against COVID-19 cause AIDS. Johnson was being interviewed by anti-vaccine lawyer Todd Callender, who...
BY MONIQUE BEALS Moderna’s Chief Medical Officer Paul Burton said on Sunday that his company was preparing to provide large amounts of its vaccine booster against omicron and other COVID-19 variants this fall. “We’re confident by the fall of this year we should...
By Meghann Myers Three active duty service members appeared in a segment aired Thursday on a podcast hosted by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida, accusing the Defense Department of using the COVID-19 vaccine mandate to “intentionally purge” religious service members....
Frank Talarico, a 47-year-old police sergeant, was hospitalized for 49 days with the coronavirus. “If I was vaccinated,” he said, “I have to think I wouldn’t have gotten as sick as I did.” By Tracey Tully No one thought Frank Talarico Jr. was going to live. Not his...
By KAISER PERMANENTE A research study released on April 22, 2022, in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine shows that a booster dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine provides strong protection, roughly 80% to 90%, in the first few months against hospital...
Rates are stalling in most low-income countries well short of the W.H.O.’s goal to immunize 70 percent of people in every nation. Some public health experts believe the momentum is gone forever. By Rebecca Robbins and Stephanie Nolen In the middle of last year, the...
With clinical vaccine trials for everything from HIV to Zika, messenger RNA could transform medicine—or widen health care inequalities. By AMIT KATWALA KATALIN KARIKÓ NEVER intended to make vaccines. For years before the pandemic, the Hungarian-American...
By Prakash Nagarkatti 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. The mRNA vaccines currently used in the U.S. against COVID-19 have been highly...
By Paul A. Offit, M.D. On December 10, 2020, Pfizer presented results from a 36,000-person, two-dose, prospective, placebo-controlled trial of its Covid-19 messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine, BNT162b2, to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).1 The vaccine was 95%...
While the COVID-19 vaccines have reduced the number of severe infections and deaths, they haven’t stopped viral transmission. This past weekend, mainstream media now reports, a big elite get-together involving top journalists, the Gridiron Dinner in...