Staff, Reuters, Nov. 22, 2021 Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said on Monday its COVID-19 vaccine provided strong long-term protection against the virus in a late-stage study conducted among adolescents aged 12 to 15 years. A two-dose series of the vaccine was 100% effective …
Welcoming family into your home for Thanksgiving? Here’s how to keep COVID out
Allison Aubrey, NPR, Nov. 20, 2021 Here’s one thing to be thankful for this year: It’s not Thanksgiving 2020. A year ago vaccines had not yet been approved, daily deaths were rising sharply – surging to more than 2,000 a …
All U.S. adults now eligible for Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccine booster shots after CDC gives final OK
Spencer Kimball and Robert Towey, CNBC, Nov. 19, 2021 KEY POINTS CDC Director Rochelle Walensky signed off on an independent panel’s recommendation for all U.S. adults to be eligible for Pfizer and Moderna booster shots. Pfizer said its booster dose …
All vaccinated adults could soon be eligible for a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot
Jane GreenHalgh, NPR, Nov. 16, 2021 People 18 or older who are already considered fully vaccinated could soon be eligible to get a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine booster shot. The Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce later this week …
Fauci says 3-shot vaccine should be ‘standard,’ warns of winter ‘double whammy’
Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, Nov. 16, 2021 With winter closing in and coronavirus case rates creeping up once again, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci is warning that the vaccines’ waning immunity combined with the highly transmissible delta variant will …