COVID-19 Vaccines

The world has "lost the plot" on equitable vaccine access and is falling far short of targets to vaccinate the global south, according to scathing assessments from experts.

The U.S. is expanding COVID-19 boosters, ruling that 16- and 17-year-olds can get a third dose of Pfizer’s vaccine.

In small studies in South Africa and Germany, the results indicate a marked decrease in the ability of vaccines to neutralize this variant.

New cases in the U.S. climbed from an average of nearly 95,000 a day on Nov. 22 to almost 119,000 a day this week, and hospitalizations are up 25% from a month ago.

Pfizer and its partner BioNTech said lab tests showed a booster dose increased by 25-fold the level of so-called neutralizing antibodies against omicron.

U.S. District Court Judge R. Stan Baker, in Augusta, Georgia, issued a stay to bar enforcement of the mandate nationwide.

As the U.S. heads into midterm elections, the political right and the anti-vaccine movement are drawing ever-closer together — potentially at the cost of thousands of lives.

With omicron on everyone’s minds, people are concerned about breakthrough infections. How do you proceed if you think you’ve had one?

Health officials and pediatricians say the slow uptake among hesitant parents for the 5-11 age group could extend to the youngest children too.

The city’s rate for 5- to 11-year-olds is still below the national average.

The more COVID-19 spreads among unvaccinated populations, the more possibilities it has to mutate and potentially become more dangerous, prolonging the pandemic for everyone.

The preliminary injunction applies to a coalition of suing states that includes Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota.

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Doctors in the Delaware Valley are pleasantly surprised. An October survey had shown many parents against or hesitant about vaccination.

The county hopes to raise vaccination rates among county employees, under a mandate enacted Oct. 18. The incentive expires Dec. 31.