Medicine & TechnologyUS Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suggested boosters of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine for adults 65 and older, and those who are high risk.
The Delta variant of COVID-19 has been spread all over the United States, giving everyone reasons for finding the best approach, including taking vitamins, to prevent the highly-transmitted strain of the virus from progressing.
Pfizer and Moderna were given authorization last month to give booster shots for those immunocompromised individuals, but the US health regulators are also now planning to approve a COVID-19 third dose for everyone given the high breakthrough cases.
Researchers from the University of Minnesota developed a novel virus-like nanoparticle vaccine that has been tested on animals, offering a new approach in a human vaccine against COVID-19 and its variants.
Australia recently reported a case of ivermectin overdose in one of the country's hospitals. Learn more about the risks of the antiparasitic drug if taken for COVID-19 treatment.
The vaccine shots may not be considered a hundred percent protection, although they reduce the disease severity, as well as the risk of deaths related to flu.
Jpan recently announced the supension of Moderna vaccine rollout throughout the country due to a reported particulate matter contamination in the vials.
More and more travelers have been having or at least planning to get another shot of the COVID-19 vaccine in fear of getting infected by the fast-spreading COVID-19 Delta variant.
FDA is expected to amend the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines' emergency use authorizations on Thursday, allowing immunocompromised patients to get the third dosage.
Researchers are currently working to enhance Remdesivir, the only FDA-approved COVID-19 treatment. From being administered intravenously, it is currently being developed to be orally taken.