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  • A healthcare worker receives the Covid-19 vaccination. Photographer: Bing Guan/BloombergHealth

    Days after the FDA rejected COVID booster shots for people 16 and up, a CDC panel will decide who gets an extra dose

    By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • Hollie Maloney, a pharmacy technician, loads a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, at the Portland Expo in Portland, Maine. The Expo location, operated by Northern Light Health, is one of two mass vaccination sites that opened in Maine this week. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Health

    The fate of Biden’s ambitious COVID booster plan lies in the hands of FDA advisors

    By Matthew Perrone, Lauran Neergaard, and others
  • A syringe is prepared with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic at the Reading Area Community College in Reading, Pa., Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)Health

    FDA strikes neutral tone ahead of Friday’s COVID vaccine booster meeting

    By Lauran Neergaard, Matthew Perrone, and others
  • Doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine await to be administered after it was approved for use by the FDA in children 12 and over at a Los Angeles County mobile vaccination clinic on May 14, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine gets full approval from U.S. FDA

    By Lauran Neergaard, Matthew Perrone, and others
  • Vials of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine and sodium cloride (used for dilution of the vaccine) are seen at a community vaccination event in a predominately Latino neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, August 11, 2021. – All teachers in California will have to be vaccinated against Covid-19 or submit to weekly virus tests, Governor Gavin Newsom announced on August 11, as authorities grapple with exploding infection rates. The number of people testing positive for the disease has surged in recent weeks, with the highly infectious Delta variant blamed for the bulk of new cases. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)Health

    The FDA says Americans with weakened immune systems can now get a Pfizer or Moderna booster shot

    By Lauran Neergaard, Matthew Perrone, and others
  • 07 May 2021, Saxony-Anhalt, Halberstadt: Klaus Begall, professor at the Ameos Clinic in Halberstadt, shows an empty vial that once contained doses of Biontech-Pfizer’s vaccine. The vial is one of those that were already vaccinated in Germany on December 26, 2021, at the Ameos Clinic, as vaccination against the coronavirus began in Halberstadt one day earlier than planned nationwide. In the morning, several of these vials had been handed over to the municipal museum. The municipal collections hold contemporary historical documents and objects of high importance. Photo: Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa (Photo by Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/picture alliance via Getty Images)Health

    Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine gets go-ahead for children as young as 12

    By Lauran Neergaard, Candice Choi, and others
  • Medical syringes are seen with Johnson & Johnson logo displayed on a screen in the background in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on April 14, 2021.Health

    U.S. officials say they need more time to weigh J&J vaccine risks

    By Lauran Neergaard, Mike Stobbe, and others
  • MARBURG, GERMANY – MARCH 29: Employees in special suits test the procedures for the manufacturing of the messenger RNA (mRNA) for the Covid-19 vaccine in German company BioNTech, in Marburg, Germany on March 29, 2021. BioNTech Marburg’s coronavirus vaccine production target will be 2.5 billion doses for 2021, up from 2.3 billion as it is considered as one of the largest manufacturing facilities producing mRNA vaccines in the world. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was developed by Ozlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin, a couple who are children of Turkish immigrants in Germany. (Photo by Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Health

    Pfizer says its COVID vaccine is safe for children as young as 12

    By Lauran Neergaard and The Associated Press
  • Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks about the coronavirus in the Rose Garden of the White House.Health

    White House turns to statistical models for coronavirus forecast

    By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Lauran Neergaard, and others
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    Trump puts Pence in charge of coronavirus efforts, calls risk to Americans ‘very low’

    By Lauran Neergaard, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, and others
  • GHANA-HEALTH-VACCINES-MALARIAHealth

    Groundbreaking malaria vaccine test underway in 3 African nations

    By Cara Anna, Lauran Neergaard, and others
  • Senator Bernie Sanders Joins The Chicago Teachers Union StrikePolitics

    Bernie Sanders Hospitalized for Blockage in Artery, Cancels Campaign Events

    By Nicholas Riccardi, Lauran Neergaard, and others