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Fall COVID Vaccines Receive FDA Approval

Eligibility, pharmacy access, and insurance coverage remain uncertain for many

(Newser) - New COVID shots got the green light on Thursday, but actually getting one might not be straightforward. The FDA authorized updated vaccines from Moderna, Pfizer, and Sanofi/Novavax for this fall, aimed at the XFG variant now dominant in North America, the New York Times reports. Eligibility mirrors last year's:...

COVID Vaccine Study Blocked by CDC Is Published Elsewhere

'There was no scientific reason to reject this paper'

(Newser) - A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has finally been published after being blocked from a government health journal. The vaccine was found to be about 55% effective against COVID-19-associated hospitalizations, and reduced COVID-19-related trips to emergency departments and urgent care clinics by 50%, according to the study published Tuesday by...

FDA's Controversial Vaccine Chief Steps Down, Again

Vinay Prasad is heading back to UC San Francisco, per FDA chief Marty Makary

(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccines regulator is heading for the exit again. Dr. Vinay Prasad, who took over the agency's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research last year and briefly resigned in July before returning a short time later, will leave next month, an FDA spokesperson...

HHS Cuts Grants to Pediatric Group Amid Clash With RFK Jr.

Slashed funding to American Academy of Pediatrics halts child health, vaccine-related initiatives

(Newser) - Federal health officials have yanked millions in grants from one of their most outspoken critics, and the American Academy of Pediatrics says kids will pay the price. The Department of Health and Human Services this week canceled seven grants to the AAP worth an estimated $18 million, according to documents...

With COVID Vaccines, 'No Increase in the Risk of Mortality'

French data show 50% higher death rate among unvaccinated adults

(Newser) - French researchers say a massive real-world test of COVID shots turned up something vaccine skeptics won't like: People who skipped them died at a significantly higher rate, reports RFI . In a study of nearly 30 million adults ages 18 to 59, published in JAMA Network Open , the Epi-Phare group—...

Blaming 10 Children's Deaths on COVID Shot, FDA Plans Changes

Agency will no longer 'rubber-stamp new products,' commissioner says, though claim doesn't cite evidence

(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration plans a more skeptical approach to vaccine approval, prompted by an internal memo that claims without providing evidence that at least 10 children died "after and because of receiving" a COVID shot. The memo, written by Dr. Vinay Prasad, head of the FDA's...

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COVID-19 Vaccines Appear to Have a Big Added Bonus

The mRNA ones, at least, appear to help some cancer patients

(Newser) - The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients—revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors, the AP reports. People with advanced lung or skin cancer who were taking certain immunotherapy drugs lived substantially longer if they also got a Pfizer or...

CDC Makes Big Change to COVID Shot Guidance

Department says patients must consult with health professionals

(Newser) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has adopted recommendations by a new group of vaccine advisers, and stopped recommending COVID-19 shots for anyone—leaving the choice up to patients. The government health agency on Monday announced it has adopted recommendations made last month by advisers picked by US Health...

FDA Launches New Probe Into Covid Vaccine Safety Claims

Agency scrutinizes reports involving child deaths, pregnant women after shots

(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration is taking a closer look at reports of deaths among young people and pregnant women following COVID-19 vaccinations—an inquiry that comes despite years of global research affirming the vaccines' strong safety record, reports the New York Times . The new review appears to reflect...

RFK Jr. Clashes With Senator Over COVID Deaths

Health secretary claims nobody knows how many died from COVID in US

(Newser) - In one of many sharp exchanges with Democratic senators during a Senate hearing Thursday, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed nobody knows how many Americans died from COVID-19. "I don't think anybody knows that, because there was so much data chaos coming out of the CDC and there were...

Trump Demands Makers 'Justify Success' of COVID Vaccines

He says RFK Jr., CDC are 'ripping themselves apart'

(Newser) - President Trump took to his social media platform Monday with a question for pharmaceutical companies: can they "justify the success" of their COVID-19 vaccines?
  • "It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs," Trump said in a Truth Social
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COVID Vaccine Season Just Got More Complex

Not as many people can automatically go to pharmacies to get their shots anymore

(Newser) - Will you get a COVID-19 vaccine? That's become a complicated question for many people, with the answer depending on one's age, insurance coverage, health, and finding a health care professional to give the shot. A once-straightforward seasonal vaccine process has become muddled this year due to new federal...

FDA Introduces New Restrictions for Fall COVID Shots

Approval doesn't cover younger, healthy adults

(Newser) - The FDA has given the green light to updated COVID vaccines for this fall, but not for everybody. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Wednesday that the agency's latest approval only covers adults 65 and up, plus anyone—child or adult—with at least...

AAP Splits With CDC on COVID Vaccine Guidance for Kids

American Academy of Pediatrics still strongly recommends COVID shots for those up to 2 years

(Newser) - ]For the first time in 30 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics is substantially diverging from US government vaccine recommendations, the AP reports. The group's new COVID-19 recommendations—released Tuesday—come amid a tumultuous year for public health, as vaccine skeptics have come into power in the new Trump...

Shooter Fired 180 Times at CDC Buildings

Kennedy visits agency's campus in Atlanta

(Newser) - The man who attacked the CDC headquarters in Atlanta on Friday fired more than 180 shots into the campus and broke about 150 windows, with bullets piercing "blast-resistant" windows and spattering glass shards into numerous rooms, according to information circulated internally at the agency. It may take weeks or...

RFK Jr. Pulls $500M in Vaccine Development Funding

HHS announces funding cuts related to mRNA vaccine research

(Newser) - The Department of Health and Human Services will cancel contracts and pull funding for some vaccines that are being developed to fight respiratory viruses like COVID-19 and the flu, the AP reports. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in a statement Tuesday that 22 projects, totaling $500 million, to develop vaccines...

Bondi Ends COVID Case Against Utah Doctor

Michael Kirk Moore was accused of destroying coronavirus vaccines

(Newser) - The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID vaccines and instead giving children saline shots, per the AP . US Attorney General Pam Bondi said Saturday that charges against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, of Midvale, Utah, were dismissed at her direction. Moore and...

Vaccine Official Quits After RFK Jr. 'Blindsides' CDC

He bypassed normal procedure on COVID vaccine recommendations

(Newser) - A top official at the CDC resigned this week after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bypassed normal procedures with an order on the agency's COVID-19 vaccine guidance. Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, who helped oversee CDC vaccine recommendations, announced her resignation to the COVID-19 vaccine work group early Tuesday, according to...

FDA Makes a Big Shift on COVID Vaccine Policy

Booster won't be routinely approved for healthy people under 65

(Newser) - The Food and Drug Administration announced a major shift Tuesday on how COVID-19 vaccines will be approved—and it could mean that not everybody who wants a COVID shot this fall will be able to get one. In a paper published in the New England Journal of Medicine , top FDA...

FDA's New Vaccine Chief: Doc Accused of Vaccine Misinfo

Dr. Vinay Prasad has expressed skepticism about COVID boosters

(Newser) - The new vaccine chief of the Food and Drug Administration is, perhaps not surprisingly, a doctor well-known for his skepticism about at least one vaccine. Dr. Vinay Prasad is a hematologist-oncologist who spoke out against the response to the COVID pandemic by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control...

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