Researchers are still working to answer key questions about the drug, including how effective it is in vaccinated people and whether cases of “rebounding” in people who receive it are common.
Author: Noah Weiland
White House Outlines Covid Vaccine Plan for Children Under 5
Vaccine deliveries to U.S. states are contingent on the Food and Drug Administration authorizing pediatric doses, a step that could occur as soon as next week.
A Second Global Covid-19 Summit Led By the White House Is Set for May
Efforts to subsidize more global vaccinations have stalled in Congress, and new coronavirus cases are on the rise in the U.S.
Biden to Spend $1 Billion to Boost Supply of Rapid Covid Tests
Tests producing results in 15 minutes have been on the market for months, but they have been in short supply in the United States.
C.D.C. Panel Endorses Third Vaccine Shot for Immunocompromised
The added dose will bolster protection for people who have weakened immune systems because of cancer treatments, transplant surgery and other medical interventions.
H.H.S. Will Require its Health Workers to Get the Covid Vaccine
President Biden has been pushing for more agencies and companies to enforce similar rules as the Delta variant fuels a wave of new cases.
Behind Biden’s Pledge to Share 80 Million Vaccine Doses
A shipment to Pakistan was part of a new phase of the administration’s pandemic response: a round-the-clock effort to clear regulatory and logistical hurdles to share doses with countries in need.
White House to Send 3 Million Doses of J&J Vaccine to Brazil
The shipment is part of President Biden’s pledge to deliver 80 million doses overseas by the end of June.
High Hopes for Johnson & Johnson’s Covid Vaccine Have Fizzled in the U.S.
Production problems and a brief pause on its use kept the one-dose vaccine from becoming the game changer that health officials across the country believed it would be.
A confused federal effort to retrieve Americans overseas in the initial outbreak led to safety risks, a new report says.
The federal report concluded that the evacuation of Americans from China bogged down badly as different divisions within the federal health department argued over which was responsible.