Category: booster

COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Provides Substantial Protection Against Hospitalization: Study

A booster shot of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine provides strong protection, at least initially, against COVID-19 hospitalization, though the effect against the Omicron virus variant is lower than that seen when the Delta strain was prevalent, according to a new study. Researchers in Qatar estimated the booster was 76.5 percent effective against severe, critical, or fatal…


Moderna Makes Case for 4th COVID-19 Vaccine Booster This Year, Shares Jump

Moderna Inc. executives said on Thursday they believe a fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot will be needed late this year due to waning protection from earlier doses, which could push up sales in the second half of 2022. Chief Executive Stephane Bancel stressed that the company’s current sales projections for its Spikevax COVID-19 shot—$19 billion in…


Fauci: COVID-19 Boosters May Have to Be Taken Every 5 Years

White House COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci said COVID-19 booster shots may need to be taken every five years rather than once per year for some people. “It will depend on who you are,” Fauci told the Financial Times in an interview published last week on Feb. 9, “but if you are a normal, healthy 30-year-old…


‘Waste of Time’ to Keep Vaccinating People: Ex-Head of UK Vaccine Taskforce

It is a “waste of time” to keep vaccinating people against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the former chairman of Britain’s Vaccines Taskforce has said. Dr. Clive Dix, who played a key role in helping pharmaceutical firms create the COVID-19 vaccines, told LBC radio on Jan. 16: “The Omicron variant is a relatively mild…


Ex-head of UK Vaccine Taskforce Calls for End to Mass Vaccination

Mass vaccination against COVID-19 should come to an end and the UK should focus on managing it as an endemic disease like flu, the former chairman of Britain’s vaccine taskforce has said. Dr. Clive Dix, who played a key role in helping pharmaceutical firms create the COVID-19 vaccines, said that mass vaccination should end after…


CDC Recommends Children 12 to 17 Get a COVID-19 Booster Shot

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Wednesday said children from 12 to 17 years old should get a COVID-19 vaccine booster, despite scant effectiveness data and concerns about post-vaccination heart inflammation. The agency endorsed recommendations from its vaccine advisory panel, which voted 13–1 to advise the CDC to say children in the age group…


LIVE: CDC Advisors Weigh Letting Children Aged 12 to 15 Get Booster Shots


Capitol Report (Jan. 3): Snowstorm Shuts Down Washington DC

A major snowstorm in the metro DC area brought up to 10 inches of snow,  shutting down the government and local schools. President Joe Biden met with farmers and ranchers to discuss rising costs of meat and other agriculture products. With inflation here and stagflation on the horizon, we have Vance Ginn, former associate director for…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (Jan. 3)

The Food and Drug Administration is authorizing booster shots for 12- to 15-years-olds. Tesla is joining the fight against a California proposal about solar energy. Some companies fear it could effectively kill the solar industry in the state. Media companies are set to invest billions of dollars this year on new content, despite losing money…


UCLA, UC Irvine Begin Winter Quarter Classes Remotely

LOS ANGELES—Winter quarter classes began Jan. 3 at University of California (UC)–Los Angeles and UC–Irvine remotely for a planned two weeks in response to surging COVID-19 cases. All UCLA students should still plan to return to campus no later than Jan. 9 to participate “in a robust COVID-19 testing program that will help keep our…