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The effectiveness of Moderna's flu vaccine was demonstrated across all age groups, including older people, and was found to be safe and tolerable, according to the company.
This is seemingly the same script but a different cast; the profiteering and greed of big pharma know no boundaries. We have barely pulled out of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which big pharmaceutical companies once again insisted on putting profits before lives, Dr Penninah Lutung writes.
While the existing coronavirus vaccines continue to provide good protection against hospitalisation and death, vaccine effectiveness has taken a hit as the virus has evolved.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel of 21 medical experts has unanimously approved the use of Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines on children aged 6 months to 5 years.
The US government is planning for a June 21 start to its under-5 vaccination campaign should the vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech receive FDA authorisation.
Children under five represent the only age group yet to have a Covid-19 vaccine approved for use.
OPINION: The decision about when, whether and who to boost has also been complicated by imperfect data, write Joel Achenbach and Carolyn Johnson.
It is now recommended that all adults and teenagers, especially those who are immuno-compromised, receive a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to ensure optimal immune response.
Until now, most EU countries have not admitted people from outside the bloc travelling for non-essential reasons if they have been vaccinated with shots not approved in the EU.
Unvaccinated people, who catch Covid-19 and show symptoms of long Covid, do better if they then get vaccinated.
Moderna on Monday said that a booster dose of its Covid-19 vaccine appeared to be protective against the fast-spreading Omicron variant in laboratory testing.
Microbiologist Deborah Fuller explains why vaccines might need to be updated and what that process would look like.
The US authorised the Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 vaccine boosters to all people aged 18 and older on Friday.
Passengers arriving in Britain after having been fully vaccinated and having received their vaccine certificate from one of more than 135 approved countries and territories are no longer required to take a pre-departure test.
Fully-vaccinated travellers will get to visit the US from today. Here’s everything you need to know.
Starting on November 8, foreign national air travellers to the United States will be required to be fully vaccinated and to provide proof of vaccination status prior to boarding an airplane.
They're not being shy about it, either, the advisers say.
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines shares some tips to keep in mind when planning your Dutch getaway.
Pfizer and BioNTech have submitted initial trial data for their Covid-19 vaccine in 5-11 year olds and said they would make a formal request to US regulators for emergency use in the coming weeks.
’Within a year I think we will be able to come back to normal life,’ CEO Albert Bourla was quoted as saying in an interview on ABC's ’This Week. ’
Pfizer and BioNTech said trial results showed their coronavirus vaccine was safe and produced a robust immune response in children aged five to 11.
The mid-stage study called Imbokodo, testing the experimental J&J vaccine, included 2 600 women participants across five Southern African countries.
The United Arab Emirates will resume issuing tourist visas to those who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19.
Does Pfizer getting full approval and a rubber stamp to patent and market the vaccine change anything? Certainly not for scores of anti-vaxxers.
Nearly 18 months after it closed its borders to battle coronavirus, Saudi Arabia will begin ’gradually receiving umrah requests from various countries. ’