COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics
Pfizer said it has submitted a supplemental biologics license application for its COVID-19 vaccine, asking that the Food and Drug Administration expand approval to include individuals age 12 to 15.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed updated recommendations expressing a clinical preference for individuals to receive an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine over Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, as proposed by the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
The AHA, American Medical Association and American Nurses Association shared the following statement with the media calling for widespread vaccinations and booster shots during the holiday season as the omicron variant spreads.
The federal government asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the Missouri and Louisiana district court preliminary injunctions that have put the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services vaccine mandate on hold in 24 states.
The U.S. COVID-19 Vaccination Program has helped avert an estimated 35.9 million infections, 10.3 million hospitalizations and 1.1 million deaths as of Nov. 30, according to an analysis released by the Commonwealth Fund.
The Food and Drug Administration updated its fact sheets for providers and recipients and caregivers for the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, with each revised document outlining a contraindication for the vaccine’s administration to individuals with histories of thrombosis with…
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a ruling ordering the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services vaccine mandate rule to resume in about half of the country while saying 24 states are not subject to the mandate.
Pfizer announced additional phase 2/3 clinical trial data for its COVID-19 oral antiviral treatment, indicating the pill’s high degree of effectiveness in reducing high-risk patients’ risks of hospitalization or death from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit denied a stay pending appeal of the Missouri district court’s preliminary injunction enjoining the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services vaccine mandate in the 10 states that are part of that lawsuit.
The holiday season is a good motivator to become fully vaccinated, say clinicians at Mount Sinai Health System in New York, a state where the omicron variant has spread.