Rob Stein, NPR, July 28, 2023 Yet another summer COVID-19 wave may have started in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “After roughly six, seven months of steady declines, things are starting to tick back …
FDA advisers support approval of RSV vaccine to protect infants
Scott Hensley and Rob Stein, NPR, May 18, 2023 Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the agency should approve the first vaccine to protect infants from RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus. But some of the experts expressed …
CDC to stop reporting new COVID infections as public health emergency winds down
Rob Stein, NPR, May 5, 2023 In the latest sign that the pandemic is receding, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Friday announced plans to scale back the data the agency will regularly report about COVID-19. But CDC officials …
FDA will let some adults get a second boost of the bivalent COVID-19 shot
Rob Stein, NPR, April 4, 2023 The Food and Drug Administration has decided to allow some people to get a second booster with one of the COVID-19 vaccines that have been updated to target the omicron variant, NPR has learned. …
FDA authorizes the first at-home test for COVID-19 and the flu
Juliana Kim, NPR, February 25, 2023 The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization on Friday for the first at-home test that can simultaneously detect both COVID-19 and the flu. With a shallow nasal swab, the single-use kit …