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Pfizer and BioNTech on Friday said they were delaying their request for the Food and Drug Administration to authorize their Covid-19 vaccine for children under 5 until early April, waiting on more data on the effectiveness of a third dose. “Given that the study is advancing at a rapid pace, the companies will wait for

Residents wait in line at a Covid-19 mobile testing site in the Times Square neighborhood of New York, U.S., on Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Jeenah Moon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Senior U.S. health officials have sought to reassure a pandemic weary public that the country is moving closer to a time when Covid-19 won’t

The outside of the Food and Drug Administration headquarters is seen in White Oak, Md. Al Drago | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images A Food and Drug Administration committee on Thursday recommended against full approval of a lung cancer treatment developed by Innovent Biologics and Eli Lilly over concerns the clinical trial was conducted

A recent sharp drop in Connecticut’s Covid hospitalizations allowed the Democratic governor there to feel comfortable dropping the state’s mask mandate, effective later this month. “The most important metric for me is hospitalizations,” Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “We want to make sure our hospitals aren’t overwhelmed, they’re down, we got

In this article CVS People walk by a CVS Pharmacy store in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters CVS Health will face a new challenge in the coming year: proving to investors it can drive growth and retain customers, even as demand for Covid vaccines and testing fades. Shares fell

In this article CVS A teen receives her Pfizer Covid-19 booster at a CVS pharmacy in New York City on Jan. 20th, 2022. Adam Jeffery | CNBC CVS Health said Wednesday that demand for at-home Covid tests and booster shots lifted overall store sales, helping the company top expectations for fourth-quarter earnings. Shares fell less than

RT: Maria Van Kerkhove, Head a.i. Emerging Diseases and Zoonosis at the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, January 29, 2020. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Health Organization expects a more transmissible version of omicron to increase in

November 30, 2021: OnPoint NYC has opened two supervised drug injection sites in the Harlem and Washington Heights neighborhoods in an effort to address the increase in overdose deaths. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images) Yuki Iwamura | AFP | Getty Images Fatal opioid overdoses are thought to

A man with her protective face mask walks in Vellaces neighborhood after new restrictions came into force as Spain sees record daily coronavirus (Covid-19) cases, in Madrid, Spain on September 21, 2020. (Photo by Burak Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images One of the great mysteries that has emerged from the Covid-19 pandemic

China’s strict zero-Covid approach won’t be able to limit the spread of the highly infectious omicron variant, according to a U.S. epidemiologist. Beijing may not be able to use the same “authoritarian approaches” against omicron because the variant is unlike the others, Dr. Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy,

Merck sold $952 million of its Covid-19 treatment pill molnupiravir in the fourth quarter, saying Thursday it’s on track to sell another $5 billion to $6 billion more this year. Most of its sales so far have been concentrated in the U.S., the U.K. and Japan, the company said in releasing earnings results that beat

Chile requires visitors furnish proof of insurance coverage for Covid-19 and related conditions. Pictured, capital city Santiago. Oleh_Slobodeniuk | E+ | Getty Images Are you planning a trip abroad? You may need to buy travel insurance to visit your destination country. Many countries had insurance requirements even before the pandemic. But about a dozen more

A healthcare worker fills a syringe with Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Ben Hasty | MediaNews Group | Getty Images For months, the authorization of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for teenagers has been on hold as the Food and Drug Administration reviews the risk of a rare but serious form of heart inflammation that’s affected mostly young men

Lalain Reyeg administers a COVID-19 booster vaccine at the Edward Hines Jr. VA Hospital on September 24, 2021 in Hines, Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Moderna’s two-dose Covid-19 vaccine is associated with a higher risk of heart inflammation than Pfizer’s, but the benefits of both companies’ shots outweigh the risks, according to a Centers

It’s time to let the young, healthy and “anyone who wants to move on” from the pandemic do so, said Dr. Stefanos Kales, a professor at Harvard Medical School. In a paper posted on LinkedIn last month, Kales said that for the majority of children and adults, “Covid-19 is not a serious threat, only a

Elizabeth Hurley visits SiriusXM Studios. Slaven Vlasic | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Actress, model, businesswoman and philanthropist, Elizabeth Hurley, told CNBC that the Covid-19 pandemic has been an “incredibly challenging” time for cancer patients. “I think because of the pandemic, because of the last 18 months, it’s been very hard for some of

In this article BDX TMO SAN-FR ROG-CH The at-home testing market is bigger than just Covid tests, and it’s bigger than over-the-counter pregnancy tests. In fact, the emerging marketplace of consumer-initiated lab testing may be worth more than $2 billion by 2025, according to Quest Diagnostics. “We have experienced over 100% growth in 2021 over

A traveler wears a face mask while checking their phone on the arrivals level outside the Tom Bradley International Terminal (TBIT) at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) amid increased Covid-19 travel restrictions on January 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Airlines and other travel-industry groups asked the

A healthcare worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine to a woman in Johannesburg, South Africa, December 04, 2021. Sumaya Hisham | Reuters Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Haiti are the least vaccinated countries in the world against Covid-19, data has shown. Just 0.05% of Burundi’s population has received at least one Covid vaccination dose,

In this article BNTX PFE A student gets help with his mask from transitional kindergarten teacher Annette Cuccarese during the first day of classes at Tustin Ranch Elementary School in Tustin, CA on Wednesday, August 11, 2021. Paul Bersebach | MediaNews Group | Getty Images Pfizer and BioNTech on Tuesday started submitting data for the