Vaccines

Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, signs off on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ (ACIP) recommendation for individuals 6 through 17 years of age. On Friday, CDC Director Rochelle P. Walensky signed off on the primary series for the the Moderna...

A pair of Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine boosters designed to target the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus have been shown to produce a significantly stronger immune response to Omicron, the companies said Saturday. According to The Wall Street Journal, the vaccines were designed to target the original BA.1 subvariant...

Up to 40,000 Army National Guard soldiers across the country — or about 13% of the force — have not yet gotten the mandated COVID-19 vaccine, and as the deadline for shots looms, at least 14,000 of them have flatly refused and could be forced out of the service.

Publix confirmed that they will not offer the newly approved Moderna and Pfizer shots to children younger than 5. The decision comes after federal health officials approved COVID-19 vaccines for children as young as 6 months old. Publix had an integral role in the initial distribution of the COVID-19 in...

Parents who have waited patiently to vaccinate their young children against COVID-19 are now able to do so after vaccines for kids under 5 were authorized over the weekend.

GM Canada announced this week that it would drop its COVID-19 vaccine requirement for its employees as of Sunday, June 26th, 2022. According to The Detroit News, GM Canada’s decision to drop its vaccination requirement comes days after Stellantis decided to drop a similar mandate for Canadian employees. Stellantis was forced to drop the vaccination requirement after an Ontario arbitrator deemed the policy “no longer reasonable,” due to the vaccine’s waning efficacy against the Omicron variant of COVID-19. The arbitrator, Marilyn Nairn, also said there is a “negligible difference in the risk of transmission in respect of Omicron as between a two-dose vaccine regimen and remaining unvaccinated,” at the moment.