Pfizer and Moderna vaccines cut the risk of getting sick with COVID-19 by 94%, the largest real-world CDC study confirms – and just one dose reduces the odds of illness by 82% CDC compared vaccination status of 623 health care workers who tested positive for COVID-19 to the status of 1,220 who tested negative People … Read more
Pfizer and Moderna vaccines cut the risk of getting sick with COVID-19 by 94%, the largest real-world CDC study confirms – and just one dose reduces the odds of illness by 82% CDC compared vaccination status of 623 health care workers who tested positive for COVID-19 to the status of 1,220 who tested negative People … Read more
Mixing and matching Covid vaccines could lead to more side effects, scientists say. British guidance says people should be given two doses of the same jab because of a lack of data on alternating doses. But there are ongoing trials of giving one type for the first dose and a different type for the second, … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) advisory committee has voted to recommend Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine be administered to children ages 12 to 15. On Wednesday, 14 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted ‘yes’ and one member recused herself. It comes two days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) … Read more
BREAKING NEWS: CDC advisory committee recommends Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds CDC’s advisory committee recommended that Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine be administered to children ages 12 to 15 With the recommendation, most states will likely begin giving out the shot to younger teenagers on Thursday It comes two days after the FDA approved the … Read more
Britain’s Covid cases rose slightly for the seventh day in a row today, amid fears the rapid spread of the Indian variant could jeopardise lockdown-easing plans. Department of Health bosses recorded 2,284 positive tests — up 6.5 per cent in the space of a week. But deaths are continuing to fall. Officials posted only 11 … Read more
The coronavirus vaccine programme in England will open up to people under the age of 40 for the first time tomorrow. An NHS bulletin showed adults aged 38 and 39 will be invited to come forward for their jab from Thursday morning. They will be offered either the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine on the back … Read more
Britain could approve Covid vaccines for children within weeks following US health chiefs’ decision to green light the move, UK scientists said today. America’s regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), last night approved plans for the Pfizer jab to be given to children aged 12 and above. No10 has reportedly already drawn up plans … Read more
Italian woman is mistakenly given SIX doses of the Pfizer vaccine in one go – but suffers NO ill effects A 23-year-old student was kept in hospital for 24 hours after being given six doses of the Pfizer vaccine in error on Sunday The woman suffered no side effects and was discharged on Monday though … Read more
U.S. regulators gave Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine emergency use authorization for children ages 12 to 15, making it the first shot available to kids younger than 16, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Monday. The shot was authorized for people ages 16 and up in December, and Pfizer has been in trials for teens since … Read more