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A group of experts who advise the US Food and Drug Administration on its vaccine decisions voted unanimously Thursday to make a broad recommendation about which lineage of the coronavirus should be included in this year’s Covid-19 vaccines,
Government vaccine advisers are meeting to decide if the recipe for COVID-19 vaccines needs updating for this fall and winter.
Seven weeks into his job as FDA commissioner, Marty Makary, MD, MPH, held his own answering a barrage of sometimes acrimonious questions from Senators about agency staffing cuts, limits on COVID boosters, and more.
The US Food and Drug Administration will now require Covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna to use expanded warning labels with more information about the risk of a rare heart condition after vaccination.
The Food and Drug Administration will no longer approve COVID-19 vaccines for healthy people under 65 without rigorous trials.
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The Food and Drug Administration says it has decided to continue approving COVID-19 vaccine updates for seniors and others at higher risk of severe disease, but will require vaccine makers to conduct major new clinical trials before approving them for wider use.
The US Food and Drug Administration is changing the way it approves Covid-19 vaccines for Americans, a move that may limit future shots to older Americans and people at higher risk of serious Covid-19 infection.
As the COVID pandemic took hold in 2020, federal lawmakers created a series of loans to help struggling businesses stay afloat through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.