Posts Tagged as "COVID-19 vaccine"

Pfizer requests FDA authorization for updated COVID-19 booster shots that target the BA.4 and BA.5 variants

August 23, 2022 / By
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Pfizer recently asked the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize their newly updated COVID-19 booster shots for people aged 12 and older.

What we know about Omicron and the BA.5 variant

July 15, 2022 / By
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Accounting for 65 percent of last week’s COVID-19 cases, the coronavirus subvariant BA.5 — a sister variant of Omicron — has become dominant in the United States. 

FDA authorizes Pfizer boosters for children ages five to 11

May 19, 2022 / By
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Children who have received two doses of the vaccine are now eligible to receive their COVID-19 booster at least five months after their second shot; as of now, this is the only vaccine available to children ages five to 11.