FDA plans to limit COVID vaccine to only high-risk people
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Since regaining power in January, the Trump administration has repeatedly claimed with false certainty that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a lab. But there isn’t clear evidence that the virus came from a lab.
A group of experts who advise the US Food and Drug Administration on its vaccine decisions voted unanimously Thursday to make a broad recommendation about which lineage of the coronavirus should be included in this year’s Covid-19 vaccines,
Since 2023, federal health officials have recommended an annual COVID-19 shot for most people, and vaccine makers have not needed to conduct additional tests on each year’s updated vaccine. It's similar to the way the annual flu shot is updated to target the newest influenza strains,
As summer travel plans take shape, health officials are warning that a new COVID-19 variant, NB.1.8.1, is spreading rapidly in the U.S.
A nine-month-old boy has tested positive for Covid-19 in Bengaluru, health department officials confirmed on Friday, amid a slow but steady increase in cases over the past 20 days.
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Trump administration to restrict COVID vaccines to seniors and high-risk groups, pending more data for everyone else.
In this exclusive interview with the WSWS, Dr. Daszak recounts the story of his persecution and that of other principled scientists falsely accused of bearing responsibility for the COVID-19 pandemic.
Doctors say there's no reason to believe the new variant will cause any more severe illness than previous mutations of the virus.