Carla K. Johnson and Mike Stobbe, AP News, Feb. 25, 2022 Most Americans live in places where healthy people, including students in schools, can safely take a break from wearing masks under new U.S. guidelines released Friday. The Centers for …
US gives full approval to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine
Matthew Perrone, AP News, Jan, 31, 2022 U.S. health regulators on Monday granted full approval to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, a shot that’s already been given to tens of millions of Americans since its emergency authorization over a year ago. The …
Pfizer begins testing omicron-matched COVID shots in adults
Lauran Neergaard, AP News, Jan. 25, 2022 Pfizer is enrolling healthy adults to test a reformulated COVID-19 vaccine that matches the hugely contagious omicron variant, to see how it compares with the original shots. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced the …
COVID-19 pill rollout stymied by shortages as omicron rages
Matthew Perrone, AP News, Jan. 13, 2022 Two brand-new COVID-19 pills that were supposed to be an important weapon against the pandemic in the U.S. are in short supply and have played little role in the fight against the omicron …
Merck asks US FDA to authorize promising anti-COVID pill
Matthew Perrone, AP News, Oct. 11, 2021 Drugmaker Merck asked U.S. regulators Monday to authorize its pill for treating COVID-19 in what would add an entirely new and easy-to-use weapon to the world’s arsenal against the pandemic. If cleared by …