As whooping cough cases are surging globally, some may wonder if it’s necessary to get a booster. Cases of the childhood respiratory disease also known as pertussis are surging internationally and in parts of the U.S., according to a recent report. Bordetella
Dr Joseph Ladapo, a Harvard-trained doctor who was appointed by Florida’s Republican Governor and Donald Trump rival Ron DeSantis, made the claims at a recent press conference. Democrats reacted with fury, claiming “more people are going to die from Covid” as a result.
While speaking at a Thursday news conference for Gov. Ron DeSantis in Jacksonville, Florida, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, that state’s surgeon general, advised people to steer clear of the updated booster vaccine for COVID-19. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not
The Covid booster jab programme has been brought forward four weeks early amid growing concerns over the new variant detected in England on August 18. While scientists are yet to classify it as a “variant of concern”, the high number of mutations
People can choose which arm they’d like to use for doses of the COVID vaccine — and now a new study suggests one arm may have a better immune-boosting effect than the other. The research, which was recently published in the journal
The new director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that her agency would likely come out with guidance in the fall that Americans should get an annual COVID-19 booster shot. “We’re just on the precipice of that,
The CDC signed off on an additional updated COVID-19 vaccine dose for Americans who are older than 65 or have compromised immune systems, while doing away with the original monovalent vaccines. About 23 million elderly Americans are now eligible for the second
The Food and Drug Administration announced on Tuesday that older individuals and those with weakened immune systems are eligible for another dose of the updated COVID-19 booster. According to the FDA’s announcement, most people who received a single dose of the booster
As the world continues to move toward a post-pandemic life — and as the World Health Organization (WHO) recently predicted that COVID-19 will end in 2023 as a public health emergency — Americans may have reached a state of “vaccine fatigue,” data
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized a single booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine bivalent for children six months old through four years of age. At least two months prior to getting this booster, children must have completed