CDC, FDA recommend new COVID-19 booster as fall and winter approach
While we aren't near pandemic numbers, COVID-19 is once again on the rise.
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While we aren't near pandemic numbers, COVID-19 is once again on the rise.
Pittsburgh Regional Transit said the 84 employees fired over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate will be given the opportunity to come back to work.
Cases of the new COVID variant BA.2.86 have been spotted in Michigan, Denmark and Israel.
After a significant drop off in routine vaccines, health officials are finally starting to see those numbers tick back up.
The latest round of boosters comes amid a swath of changes now greenlighted by FDA and CDC to COVID-19 vaccines.
Most Americans will continue to get vaccines for free, but tests and antiviral pills could get costly later this year.
The FDA wants to simplify the Covid-19 vaccine process to look more like what happens with the flu vaccine, according to documents posted online.
Those patients, when younger than five, tended to become sicker and develop more severe diseases.
Researchers looked at patients who had Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome, then got the vaccine. They found no serious complications.
Several former Allegheny County employees are filing suit over COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
The measure now goes to President Biden's desk for his signature.
The decision by federal health officials expands access to the updated shots for younger children.
A study found vaccinations led to up to 370,000 fewer coronavirus deaths last year, as well as nearly 700,000 fewer hospitalizations.
While we learn to live with COVID-19, more and more after-effects are being linked to the virus, including, potentially, diabetes.
They are alleging that Pfizer and BioNTech copied Moderna's invention and are using them without the company's permission.
The FDA's panel of vaccine advisers voted unanimously that the benefits of Pfizer's and Moderna's shots outweigh the risks in young children.
U.S. regulators on Tuesday authorized a COVID-19 booster shot for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds.
A rise in new COVID-19 cases among children was reported overnight by health leaders, but there may be extra protection coming for those children in the form of booster doses of vaccines.
Pittsburgh native authors book on development of COVID-19 vaccine.
The vaccine could be ready by summer.
Doctors said a modest and temporary boost is better than none.
Seventeen unvaccinated Port Authority workers have been fired while over 100 are still off the job pending their disciplinary hearings.
The Port Authority is giving free rides through Sunday because 180 drivers are about to be taken off the job for violating the agency's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
A significant number of call-offs is being described as an "apparent protest" by Port Authority.
Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine has received full approval from the US Food and Drug Administration.
