COVID-19 vaccine

What to know about booster shots if you received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine

By Maureen Ferran, The Conversation

It's been six months since the Johnson & Johnson vaccine received emergency use authorization. What does the data show about its efficacy, side effects and protection from variants?…

WHO chief urges halt to booster shots for rest of the year

By Associated Press

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is calling on rich countries with large supplies of coronavirus vaccines to refrain from offering booster shots through the end of the year.

Efforts grow to end use of potentially harmful parasite drug touted to treat COVID-19

By Matthew Perrone, Associated Press

Ivermectin is approved in the U.S. to treat infections from parasites in humans and some animals like cows and horses. But with COVID-19 infections surging again, more Americans are turning to the drug despite warnings that it has shown little…

For countries with few vaccine doses, fighting COVID-19 is ‘a race from behind’

By Laura Santhanam

The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare wide disparities in health care between countries on issues like vaccines and raised calls for more resource-sharing to save lives.

COVID-19 boosters are coming, but who will get them and when?

By Lauren Neergaard, Associated Press

COVID-19 booster shots may be coming for at least some Americans, but there's still important science to be worked out about who really needs them and when.

More U.S. first responders are dying of COVID-19

By Associated Press

Despite mandates with consequences that range from weekly testing to suspension to termination, the virus is now the leading cause of U.S. law enforcement line-of-duty deaths.

Hawaii health care workers decry lack of COVID mandates

By Caleb Jones, Associated Press

Health care workers in Hawaii say a lack of government action is worsening an already crippling surge of coronavirus cases in the islands, and without effective policy changes the state's limited hospitals could face a grim crisis.

COVID-19 vaccines never promised perfection. Experts say it’s time to curb our highest expectations

By Helen Branswell, STAT

It is increasingly clear mRNA vaccines aren’t going to prevent infection in the upper respiratory tract of some proportion of the vaccinated.

WATCH: Fauci says Americans will ‘likely’ need 3rd dose of shots

By Associated Press

The U.S. is preparing for boosters for all Americans who received the mRNA vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna between five and eight months after their second dose, pending approval by the FDA.