Medscape (February 11, 2022) – This week’s announcements from several governors about easing COVID-19 mask mandates are “probably premature, but it’s a tough call,” President Joe Biden said on Thursday. He said the pandemic has had a “profound impact on the psyche of the American people” and called the changing guidelines “confusing.” Lifting Statewide Mask […]
CNBC (February 14th, 2022) -The Food and Drug Administration’s plan to fast-track Pfizer’s Covid vaccine for children under 5 years old was delayed because of a “low number of cases overall in the clinical trial,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Monday. “Most kids are not getting symptomatic Covid,” said the current Pfizer board member and […]
Medscape (February 3, 2022) – Americans who have received a COVID-19 booster shot are 97 times less likely to die from the coronavirus than those who aren’t vaccinated, according to a new update from the CDC. In addition, fully vaccinated Americans — meaning those with up to two doses, but no booster — are 14 […]
Medscape (February 2, 2022) – The Biden administration has enough doses for the 18 million children under 5 years old who may become eligible for COVID-19 shots in the coming weeks and has already started coordinating vaccination sites, according to White House officials. White House Prepares for Vaccines for Kids Under 5 (medscape.com)
The Hill (January 26th, 2022) – The average number of U.S. COVID-19 deaths this week surpassed the height of the delta surge earlier this fall and is at its highest point since last winter, when the nation was coming out of the peak winter surge. The seven-day average of deaths hit 2,166 on Monday, according […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 26 (Reuters) – The United States has shipped 400 million COVID-19 vaccine doses as part of its earlier pledge to donate about 1.2 billion doses to low-income countries, the White House said on Wednesday. U.S. has sent 400 mln COVID vaccine doses to 112 nations -White House | Reuters
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — More than 1.1 million American kids were diagnosed with COVID-19 during the week ending Jan. 20, new data show. That’s 17% higher than the 981,000 cases diagnosed the week before and double the number from two weeks before that. More Than 1 Million U.S. Kids Diagnosed With COVID […]
WASHINGTON, Jan 21 (Reuters) – The U.S. Postal Service has begun shipping free at-home rapid COVID-19 tests after millions of orders were placed through a new federal website launched this week, the White House said on Friday as the rise in Omicron-related cases shifted nationwide. US starts shipping free COVID tests amid Omicron -White House […]
Jan 21 (Reuters) – The World Health Organization on Friday recommended extending the use of a reduced dosage of Pfizer’s (PFE.N) COVID-19 vaccine to children aged 5 to 11 years old. The recommended dosage for the younger population is 10 micrograms instead of 30 micrograms offered to those 12 years and older. WHO recommends reduced dose […]
CNBC (January 21st, 2022) reports that the number of children hospitalized with COVID hit a pandemic high during the omicron variant’s surge. While more children are hospitalized with COVID, due to omicron’s high level of transmissibility, they don’t appear to be getting sicker than they did with previous strains, physicians say. Kids’ Covid hospitalizations hit […]