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News Articles: covid vaccine

Licensed vocational nurse Denise Saldana vaccinates Pri DeSilva, associate director of Individual and Corporate Giving, with a fourth Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine booster at the Dr. Kenneth Williams Health Center in Los Angeles, Nov. 1, 2022.

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  • Health

The FDA considers a major shift in the nation's COVID vaccine strategy

The new approach would simplify vaccination guidance so that, every fall, people would get a new shot, updated to try to match whatever variant is dominant.

January 23, 2023
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  • Rob Stein
A nurse at a University of Washington Medical Center clinic in Seattle gives a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot to a 20-month-old child on June 21.

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  • Health

The FDA clears updated COVID-19 vaccines for kids under age 5

The decision aims to better protect the littlest kids amid an uptick in COVID-19 cases around the country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to sign off soon.

December 08, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Douglas Emhoff holds a Covid mask in his hand while speaking behind a microphone.

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  • News

Biden administration makes COVID vaccine push

Two reasons for the renewed COVID-19 vaccine campaign include updated booster shots and the approach of fall and winter.

September 12, 2022
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
The Corbevax vaccine was invented at the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children's Hospital and intended for countries that couldn't get access to more expensive COVID vaccines. India has inoculated millions of teens with Corbevax (above, a vaccination drive for children ages 12-14 at a school in Bangalore) and on August 10 authorized the vaccine as a booster for adults.

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  • Global Health

Whatever happened to the new no-patent COVID vaccine touted as a global game changer?

The inventors of Corbevax said it was cheap, easy to make, effective and safe. They hoped it could bring vaccine equity to countries that can't access costlier shots. Has it lived up to its promise?

September 02, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Palca
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (right) has sued the CDC over its air travel mask mandate, while Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (left) has sued and sent cease and desist letters to dozens of school districts over mask mandates.

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  • Health

Conservative blocs unleash wave of litigation to curb public health powers

A coalition of religious groups, conservative think tanks, and Republican attorneys general have chipped away at local and state authority, altering how the nation can respond during health crises.

July 18, 2022
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By:
  • Lauren Weber and
  • Anna Maria Barry-Jester
A health worker administers a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic in Chester, Pa., on Dec. 15, 2021.

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  • Health

FDA advisers recommend updating COVID booster shots for the fall

The Food and Drug Administration will have to decide the exact recipe, but a combination shot is expected that adds protection against a version of the omicron variant to the original vaccine.

June 28, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
A health worker administers a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination clinic in Chester, Pa., on Dec. 15, 2021.

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  • Health

FDA advisers recommend updating COVID booster shots for the fall

The Food and Drug Administration will have to decide the exact recipe, but a combination shot is expected that adds protection against a version of the omicron variant to the original vaccine.

June 28, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
[10:20 AM] Grant Blankenship Pharmacist Kaitlin Harring, left, administers a Moderna COVID-19 vaccination to three year-old Fletcher Pack, while he sits on the lap of his mother, McKenzie Pack, at Walgreens pharmacy Monday, June 20, 2022, in Lexington, S.C. Today marked the first day COVID-19 vaccinations were made available to children under 5 in the United States. (AP Photo/Sean Rayford)

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  • Children's Health

The COVID vaccine for kids under 5 is finally here. But your pediatrician might not carry it

COVID vaccines for kids under age 5 were approved last week in a major development to tackle the pandemic. Health experts are telling parents to contact their pediatricians for a shot. But for many, that’s not an option. 

June 28, 2022
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  • Sofi Gratas
A child receives the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine at the Fairfax County Government Center in Annandale, Va., last November. Vaccines will soon be available for children as young as 6 months old.

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  • Health

CDC clears the way for vaccinations for children 6 months to 5 years old

CDC advisers are recommending the use of two separate COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest children made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, paving the way for vaccine rollout as early as next week.

June 19, 2022
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  • Rhitu Chatterjee
Dr. Stephaun Wallace, who leads the global external relations strategies for the COVID-19 Prevention Network at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, receives his second injection from Dr. Tia Babu during the Novavax vaccine phase 3 clinical trial in February 2021.

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  • Health

Advisers to the FDA back Novavax COVID vaccine

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration overwhelmingly voted to recommend that it authorize Novavax's two-dose vaccine against COVID-19.

June 07, 2022
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  • Scott Hensley and
  • Rob Stein
First grader Rihanna Chihuaque, 7, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Arturo Velasquez Institute in Chicago last November.

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  • Health

FDA authorizes first COVID booster for children ages 5 to 11

The Food and Drug Administration expanded authorization of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID vaccine to enable kids ages 5 to 11 who were vaccinated at least five months ago to get a third shot.

May 18, 2022
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By:
  • Rob Stein
Dr. Jesse Clark is an infectious disease specialist at the University of California, Los Angeles. The COVID pandemic "has spurred people to try to end the HIV epidemic again," he says.

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  • Global Health

How COVID vaccines have boosted the development of an HIV vaccine

During the pandemic scientists launched a vaccine in record-breaking time. Their successful use of mRNA technology could lead to progress in the decades-long effort for an HIV inoculation.

May 12, 2022
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  • Michaeleen Doucleff

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  • Global Health

The goal: Vaccinate 70% of the world against COVID. Scientists are proposing a reboot

As the world enters the pandemic's 3rd year, some ask whether the 70% vaccination goal set by WHO and the Biden administration could in fact be detrimental. Also: See our map of global progress.

March 14, 2022
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  • Nurith Aizenman
Staff volunteers queue to receive a fourth dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Sheba Medical Center in Israel on Dec. 27, 2021, as the hospital conducted a trial of a fourth jab of the vaccine.

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  • Global Health

Who might benefit from a 4th shot — and who might not

Some countries are moving ahead with plans to offer a fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine. But studies are raising questions about the potential advantages of this extra booster.

February 23, 2022
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  • Michaeleen Doucleff
16-year-old Nico Montero wrote an op-ed about getting vaccinated for his school's newspaper.

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  • Health

This 16-year-old wanted to get the COVID vaccine. He had to hide it from his parents

At 16, Nicolas Montero is old enough to get vaccinated on his own in some parts of the country. But he had to try to get the jabs without his parents knowing, since they're opposed to the vaccine.

February 18, 2022
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  • Nina Feldman
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