With weeks before the start of a new school year and the continued spread of the delta variant, parents are left wondering how to best protect their children from COVID-19. The FDA has granted vaccine emergency approvals for those 12 and older, but many others are unprotected. Reports suggest a drug could become available by midwinter. Learn why developing a vaccine for kids can be complicated.
When will Covid-19 vaccines for children under age 12 be available? Best-case scenario is mid-winter, the FDA said. The FDA hopes to move quickly to approval of vaccines after EUA. After emergency use authorization, the agency hopes to move quickly to full approval. Emergency authorization for …
CNN — Americans 12 and older can get a Covid-19 vaccine, but younger children are still waiting. With many schools across the United States now just weeks from reopening for the fall semester, pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna are still doing clinical trials to see how coronavirus vaccines …
The U.S. fell short of its goal of giving at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to 70 percent of adults by July 4, but not by much. About two-thirds of everyone above the age of 18 had gotten a shot when the holiday arrived, with coverage among seniors surpassing even that benchmark. That …
Now that two-thirds of all adults in the United States have received at least one dose of a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine as of mid-July 2021, life seems to be …
AMSTERDAM – A top official at the European Medicines Agency said a decision on whether to recommend that Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine be authorized for children is expected late next week. If approved, it would be the first such license for the shot’s use in children globally. At a press briefing on …
Masks are still an important tool for anyone unvaccinated. While all adults in the United States are now eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, parents …
A Covid vaccine has not yet been authorized for children under the age of 12, putting them among the unvaccinated who are at risk of infection. As the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus surges across the United States, unvaccinated populations remain the most vulnerable. Among them …
As COVID-19 has ripped through communities, children have often been spared the worst of the disease’s impacts. But the spectre of long COVID …
Daniel Horowitz’s grip tightened around his children’s hands as he looked upon the sea of people in horror. Nobody was wearing a mask. The amusement park's website said any unvaccinated visitors were required to wear face coverings, but it didn’t take long for the 42-year-old father to realize these …
The agency's strange math and blunt statements are missing key nuances—and may be underplaying myocarditis cases in teenage boys in particular. On …
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