Karen Weintraub and Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, Oct. 13, 2021 A federal advisory committee will meet for two days this week to discuss the safety and need for a booster shot for people who received Moderna’s or Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 …
More than 20M Americans are eligible for Pfizer-BioNTech booster shots. Should you get one?
Karen Weintraub Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, Sept. 24, 2021 More than 20 million Americans are eligible for COVID-19 booster shots from Pfizer-BioNTech, and 40 million more will have access once they’re six months past their second shot. Although those who got …
US sticks with 8-month timeline on booster shots – for now; EU may propose travel restrictions on US visitors
Jeanine Santucci, Susan Miller and Katie Vogel, USA Today, Aug. 29, 2021 The U.S. is sticking with it eight-month timeline for COVID-19 booster shots, at least for now, the nation’s top infectious disease expert said Sunday. President Joe Biden had suggested Friday that the administration …
‘Naked in the world of COVID’: Some J&J vaccine recipients feel unprotected against delta and want mRNA shots
Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, Aug. 15, 2021 Kevin Rosengren stared at the piece of paper in disbelief. No antibodies. The 46-year-old resident of Richmond, Virginia, received theone-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine in March. He was confident in the vaccine’s effectiveness …
COVID-19 vaccine by J&J comes with rare nerve syndrome warning. Here’s what to know about it
Adrianna Rodriguez, USA Today, July 14, 2021 Even though the Food and Drug Administration updated the warning label on Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine to include an increased risk of a rare neurological disorder, health experts say Americans shouldn’t worry. The odds …