Discover how scientists developed a COVID-19 vaccine in record time using mRNA technology, leading to improved public health and more research on other diseases.
It’s been almost four years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first Covid-19 vaccine. Emphasis has been given to get the jab as it can help to protect you against developing severe Covid-19 disease and dying from the respiratory illness.
“Although individual vaccines have been developed and approved for use in humans against SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses, there is no vaccine approved to simultaneously protect against both viral diseases, which continue to impact public health globally,” reads the new paper.
The CDC ACIP recommends 2 doses of the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine for those age 65+ years and 2 or more doses for immunocompromised individuals.
The mRNA-1273.815 vaccine provided significant protection against COVID-19-related hospitalizations and medically attended COVID-19 among US adults.
Service members dismissed from the military for failing to get vaccinated against COVID-19 will be reinstated with full back pay and benefits under an executive order President Trump is expected
Ad executive Carson Light claimed a religious objection to the COVID-19 vaccine. KCCI accused him in court filings of misstating religious views.
R obert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), was grilled by Democratic senators during his confirmation hearing on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30, who confronted him with conspiratorial and conflicting statements he has made about COVID-19.
RFK Jr. is a high-profile face of vaccine hesitancy, but people's vaccine concerns fall on a much broader spectrum.
President trump- reinstating thousands of military members who were dismissed for refusing the covid-19 vaccine in 2021.He signed the executive order this week
Rising diagnoses of certain cancers in people under 50 predate the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines by decades, undermining claims made in a U.S. broadcast that the inoculations have caused a sharp increase of “turbo cancer” in younger age groups.
Citing unverified data, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in December 2021 that the Covid-19 vaccine was the “deadliest vaccine ever made.” A few months prior, he petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to rescind authorization of the Covid-19 shots.