Can You Still Get COVID After You’ve Had the Vaccine?
Photo: Dragana Gordic (Shutterstock) Reports are trickling in of people who contracted COVID-19 even though they were vaccinated, like these four people in Oregon and these 12 in Hawaii. But…
What’s the Deal With the AstraZeneca Vaccine?
Photo: oasisamuel (Shutterstock) In addition to the Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines currently authorized for use in the U.S., several other vaccines are in use in other countries.…
COVID Vaccine Trials for Children Are Underway
Photo: fizkes (Shutterstock) Of the COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the US, one (Pfizer) is available for people aged 16 and up, and the other two (Moderna and Johnson & Johnson)…
How to Plan Your ‘Vaxication’ in Advance
Photo: GaudiLab (Shutterstock) The travel industry has been hit hard since the pandemic began, with travel spending declined by 42% in 2020 from 2019. But the introduction of three leading…
What You Can Do After You’re Vaccinated, According to the CDC
Photo: Evgenia Parajanian (Shutterstock) The CDC has released guidelines for people who are fully vaccinated. The biggest highlight: two weeks after you’ve had your final shot, you can spend time…
There Are Three COVID Vaccines Now and They’re All Good
Photo: Phill Magakoe / AFP (Shutterstock) This weekend, the FDA authorized another vaccine for COVID-19, bringing the total number of options in the US up to three. While there are…
Rich nations have cornered half of future Covid-19 vaccine supply: Oxfam
A group of wealthy nations representing 13 percent of the global population have already bought up more than half of the promised doses of future Covid-19 vaccines, according to a…
US raises the possibility of early approval for covid vaccine
The head of the US Food and Drug Administration raised the possibility in an interview published Sunday that a future vaccine against the coronavirus might be given emergency approval before…
Brazil approves final tests of Johnson & Johnson’s covid vaccine
Brazilian health regulators said Tuesday they had approved Johnson & Johnson’s experimental vaccine against the new coronavirus for the final stage of clinical trials, the fourth vaccine to receive widespread…
Large US COVID-19 vaccine trials will exclude pregnant women for now
Moderna and Pfizer, which has partnered with Germany’s BioNTech, this week separately launched clinical trials that use a new and unproven gene-based technology. Both companies are requiring proof of a…