Jared Hopkins
‘COVID booster strategy is not sustainable’: FDA pushes for long-term plans
A top U.S. health regulator said that asking people to frequently get Covid-19 boosters wasn’t sustainable because of vaccine fatigue and that ...
Can mRNA technology used to create COVID vaccines work on cancer, HIV and other diseases?
The vaccines that have helped billions of people around the world to protect themselves from Covid-19 were a surprise even ...
Global COVID vaccine supply crunch? Wealthy developed countries snap up two years of supplies, hardening rich-poor divide
The European Union, Canada and other developed countries have signed deals to get hundreds of millions of doses of Covid-19 ...
COVID vaccines aren’t generating antibodies for 10 million people in the US alone, including transplant recipients, who take immunosuppressants. What should they do?
For many people like [Alicia Merritt,] a liver transplant patient who must take immunosuppressants daily to prevent her body from ...
$1,000 a shot: Fake Pfizer COVID vaccines available globally as desperation grows in countries without access
Pfizer says it has identified in Mexico and Poland the first confirmed instances of counterfeit versions of the Covid-19 vaccine ...
‘We don’t need to work with BioNTech’: After a successful COVID vaccine collaboration, Pfizer plans on tackling other diseases with mRNA technology alone
Pfizer will develop new shots using the technology, called mRNA, to target other viruses and pathogens beyond the coronavirus, Chief ...
Behind the scenes of America’s troubled COVID vaccine rollout
[W]hy is it taking so long to vaccinate Americans? The answer starts with tens of millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses ...
Vaccine resistance remains high, as only 20% of Americans say they would ‘get the vaccine as soon as possible’
[Many registered voters] want to wait until [a COVID vaccine] has been available for a while to see if there ...
Rival COVID vaccine developers issue joint pledge they will not seek government approval until immunizations proven ‘safe and effective’
Nine drugmakers said Tuesday their chief executives signed a pledge promising to not file for regulatory approval or authorization of ...
How long will protective antibodies generated by a vaccine likely work?
Only a handful of vaccines generate lifetime immunity for most people, such as the ones for measles, a viral infection ...
Flu season threatens to overwhelm doctors and hospitals swamped by COVID
Both the new coronavirus and the seasonal flu virus are likely to spread in the fall and winter, and send ...
COVID-19 vaccine development efforts focusing on protecting the elderly
Older adults are especially susceptible to infection by the virus, and at higher risk of falling critically ill and dying, ...
Infographic: From vaccines to drugs, chasing ‘silver bullets’ targeting the fast-moving coronavirus
For drug companies, there is suddenly only one priority: the coronavirus. More than 140 experimental drug treatments and vaccines for ...
USDA, World Health Organization butt heads over use of antibiotics in agriculture
The Trump administration is resisting the World Health Organization’s effort to sharply limit antibiotic use in farm animals... ... The WHO ...