vaccines

New Jersey officials are tackling another pediatric issue that has popped up due to the coronavirus pandemic: a decrease in the number of children getting vaccinated. “While staying at home has resulted in slowing the spread of the virus, it has also resulted in delays and decreases in the number of children getting recommended vaccines,” the state’s Department of...

Moderna’s closely watched early-stage human trial for a coronavirus vaccine produced Covid-19 antibodies in all 45 participants, the biotech company announced Monday, sending the company’s shares surging more than 26%. Each participant was assigned to receive a 25 microgram, 100 mcg or 250 mcg dose, with 15 people in each dose group. Study participants received two doses of the potential vaccine…

President Donald Trump has suggested multiple times that a coronavirus vaccine could come within months, an accelerated timeline that prominent health experts and veteran vaccine developers say is unlikely absent a miracle. “We’re looking to get it by the end of the year if we can, maybe before,” Trump said Friday during in a Rose Garden event centered on his administration’s efforts...

President Donald Trump announced on Friday that Moncef Slaoui, a former GlaxoSmithKline executive, and Army Gen. Gustave Perna, the commander of United States Army Materiel Command, would lead the new initiative.

A rare, potentially deadly syndrome tied to COVID-19 is forcing the medical community to rethink how the novel coronavirus may affect children, as cases of the new mysterious condition continue to mount.

Pfizer has begun testing an experimental vaccine to combat the coronavirus in the United States, the pharmaceutical giant announced Tuesday. The U.S.-based company, which is working alongside German drugmaker BioNTech, said the first human participants in the United States have been dosed with the potential vaccine, BNT162. They began human trials of the experimental vaccine late last month in Germany. “With our...

Public health experts say a vaccine may be the best chance of stopping the coronavirus

U.S. researchers have opened another safety test of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, this one using a skin-deep shot instead of the usual deeper jab.

Doctors and researchers hope to deliver a coronavirus vaccine to the American public sometime in the first half of 2021, but new poll findings indicate the bigger public health challenge may be convincing skeptical Americans to obtain a COVID-19 vaccine. A majority of U.S. adults (75%) said in a new LX/Morning Consult poll they’d likely get a coronavirus vaccine,...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top expert on infectious diseases, said Thursday he feels good about prospects for a vaccine to prevent COVID-19. “You’re going to be hearing over the next months or more about different drugs that are going to go into these different randomized control trials,” he said. “And I feel confident, knowing about what this virus is...

The World Health Organization is working with scientists across the globe on at least 20 different coronavirus vaccines with some already in clinical trials in record time — just 60 days after sequencing the gene. “The acceleration of this process is really truly dramatic in terms of what we’re able to do, building on work that started with SARS, that started…

The first people to roll up their sleeves to receive an experimental vaccine for the coronavirus say they were inspired to help because they wanted to do more to fight the disease than wash their hands and work from home.

It may be a bad flu season for kids, but early signs suggest the flu vaccine is working OK

Four people have died from flu-related causes so far in Connecticut this season

New Jersey’s Assembly on Monday passed a measure to eliminate religious exemptions for vaccines for schoolchildren, but the bill stalled in the state Senate as opponents shouted so loudly they drowned out the session. The Democrat-led Assembly passed the bill 45-25, with six abstentions, but the Democrat-controlled state Senate postponed a vote because there weren’t enough yes votes, according...

A new law signed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo Thursday ends religious exemptions for vaccinations for school children.