Should the youngest be vaccinated against COVID-19? The debate is already a reality in USA, where the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday licensed the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children ages five to 11. That decision paved the way for the immunization of nearly 28 million children of that age group. The new vaccination campaign […]
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CDC Goes Green for Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine to Children Ages 5 to 11 in the U.S.
Some 28 million children between the ages of 5 and 11 can already receive the vaccine against COVID-19 from Pfizer-BioNTech at USA, a new step in the vaccination campaign that many parents eagerly awaited. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officially gave the green light to this immunizer on Tuesday night, after authorization […]
US Scientific Committee Advises Pfizer Vaccine for Children Ages 5 to 11
A scientific panel of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the United States recommended the vaccine of Pfizer-BioNTech against COVID-19 for kids between 5 and 11 years, with which the administration of this serum could begin in the next few days in the country. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously […]
The quiet work of the creators of the COVID-19 vaccine for animals
The COVID-19 This month ended the life of Ekundu, a lion who caught the virus in the zoo where he lived in Hawaii (USA) and perhaps could have been saved with a vaccine, still in the experimental phase, specifically designed to animals and much less known than human vaccines. “When we learned of the first […]
FDA Authorizes Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine for Children 5-11 Years
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized this Friday the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19 for children ages 5 to 11. The authorization included input from experts from the independent advisory committee who voted to make the vaccine available to this age group. As detailed in the FDA on its website, […]
WHO calls for US $ 23.4 billion to “prevent another five million deaths from COVID”
The World Health Organization (WHO) asked the international community to contribute US $ 23.4 billion to its program to distribute vaccines and other tools against the COVID-19, a game with which, he affirmed, the death of up to five million people can be avoided. That funding, which the WHO estimates its ACT Accelerator (acronym for […]
Merck agrees that other pharmaceutical companies can produce Molnupiravir, its pill against COVID-19
Updated 10/27/2021 09:06 am Pharmaceutical company Merck has agreed to allow other drug makers around the world to produce its COVID-19 pill with the intention of helping millions of people in the poorest countries, a UN-backed public health organization reported Wednesday. The organism Medicines Patent Pool said in a statement that it signed a voluntary […]
The US will exempt minors under 18 from the vaccination requirement for air entry into the country
USA announced the guidelines that will mark its opening of air borders to travelers vaccinated against the COVID-19 starting next November 8, and confirmed that it will make exceptions for children and for some citizens of about 50 countries with insufficient access to vaccines. The Government also clarified that foreign travelers who are vaccinated with […]
Current vaccines will remain effective against coronavirus mutations
British vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert, who led the team that created the Oxford vaccine-AstraZeneca against him COVID-19, does not expect that the coronavirus mutations that cause the disease will make it necessary to change its composition in the coming months because they have already shown that “they work with all variants”, although it has also recognized […]
CDC advisers recommend Moderna and Janssen booster doses in the US.
Updated 10/21/2021 08:38 pm An advisory panel from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended administering booster doses of vaccines against COVID-19 from Modern and of Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) for some cases. The 15 members of the advisory panel voted unanimously in favor of the two recommendations. In the case of Johnson […]