Tag: booster shot

Seniors Living in Group Settings Can Get COVID-19 Booster Shots Immediately: Maryland Gov.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Wednesday that seniors aged 65 and older who live in congregate settings could start getting COVID-19 booster shots immediately. Hogan said the state had already administered over 28,000 boosters to immunocompromised Marylanders. However, he complained that the Biden administration’s guidance on booster shots has been “confusing and contradictory.” Currently, the…


Maryland Governor: ‘Mixed’ Messages From Biden Admin Undermines Credibility of Vaccine Boosters

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said on Sunday that a lack of clear guidance from the Biden administration could undermine its effort to have Americans take COVID-19 vaccine booster shots. During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Hogan was asked to “give some advice” to President Joe Biden’s pandemic response team on the issue of…


Living With Delta Involves Getting Annual Booster Shot: Australian Premier

As New South Wales (NSW) learns to live with COVID-19, health procedures will eventually become available through normalised processes such as a yearly booster shot, Premier Gladys Berejiklian said. “Living with Delta means social distancing, QR codes, vaccine passports, it also means once a year getting a booster or a jab to vaccinate,” Berejiklian told…


WHO Urges Countries To Hold Off Giving COVID-19 Booster Shots Through September

The World Health Organization (WHO) is urging countries to hold off on giving COVID-19 booster shots through September so that poorer nations can provide citizens with their first dose of the vaccine. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters that some low-income countries, including many in Africa, have less than two percent of their adult populations fully vaccinated….


Canberra Chief Minister Warns Australians May Need COVID-19 Booster Shots Forever

ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr believes COVID-19 shots will be needed for the rest of people’s lives going on the history of previous pandemics. Around 64 per cent of Canberrans have had one coronavirus jab and just over 40 per cent have had two, one of the best take-ups of the vaccination program in the…


FDA Approves Booster COVID-19 Shots For Vulnerable, Immunocompromised People

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday authorized a booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech’s and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines for certain vulnerable and immunocompromised people. Those who will be able to access the third dose of the vaccines include “specifically, solid organ transplant recipients or those who are diagnosed with conditions that are considered to have…


BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Produces 10 Times More Antibodies Than China’s Sinovac: Study

A new study by researchers in Hong Kong has found that recipients of BioNTech’s Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine generate 10 times more antibodies than the Chinese CoronaVac vaccine made by Sinovac. The study reported that even after receiving their first BioNTech dose, recipients’ antibody levels were higher than those who had received two doses of Sinovac. The…


CDC, FDA Says People ‘Do Not Need a Booster Shot at This Time’ After Pfizer Intends to Seek OK for 3rd Shot

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a joint statement late Thursday saying that Americans who have been fully vaccinated against the CCP virus “do not need a booster shot at this time.” But the two federal health agencies also said that they “are prepared for…


CDC, FDA Say People ‘Do Not Need a Booster Shot at This Time’ After Pfizer Intends to Seek OK for 3rd Shot

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a joint statement late Thursday saying that Americans who have been fully vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus “do not need a booster shot at this time.” But the two federal health agencies also said that they “are prepared…


Singapore Becomes Latest Country to Cast Doubt on China’s COVID-19 Vaccines

Singaporean health officials have publicly expressed concerns about significant risk reported with vaccines from China following hundreds of Indonesian health workers testing positive for COVID-19 last week despite being fully vaccinated with the Sinovac vaccine. Singapore is the latest country to cast doubt on the vaccine. Dozens of the more than 350 doctors and health workers…