Loading the player… Pfizer is working to expand the vaccine to tweens. On Friday, the drug company put in a request to the Food and Drug Administration to adjust its emergency use authorization to children ages 12 to 15. When the FDA originally greenlit the authorization it was for individuals ages 16 and up, per NBC News.… Read More »
Loading the player… Drug makers continue to test the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccine. Read More: Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine batch fails quality check On Thursday, Pfizer and BioNTech revealed its vaccine protects against a variant that drug makers were concerned about, per NBC News. It added that an individual is protected for up… Read More »
The Biden administration has signaled its willingness to donate extra vaccines to poorer countries with the promise of a surplus in the United States by the summer. The federal government has purchased more than enough doses of vaccines that have been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration to immunize all 260 million adults in… Read More »
A coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford was strongly protective against COVID-19 in the partners’ largest study yet, a significant finding for a shot that has been mired in controversy but could still play a crucial role. The result, which comes from a Phase 3 trial of 32,449 participants in the… Read More »
SACRAMENTO — Gavin Newsom was just making a name for himself as mayor of San Francisco in 2005 when Blue Shield of California wrote him its first major check. The young, business-friendly Democrat had exploded onto the national scene the year before by issuing same-sex marriage licenses in San Francisco, and he was pushing his… Read More »