'Rona DeSantis outraged after feds revise authorizations for COVID-19 treatments that don't work

Gov. Ron DeSantis can’t seem to understand that just saying something doesn’t make it right or true. And on no topic is that more true than his unwavering commitment to advocating for COVID-19 …

FDA ends requirement for abortion pills to be dispensed in person

Abortion rights are under threat in states across the country and at the Supreme Court, but women seeking the right to make their own medical decisions had an important win on Thursday. The Food and …

FDA clears up confusion over boosters by making Moderna and Pfizer available to all adults

On Friday morning, the FDA announced that it was expanding the availability of booster shots to cover all adults 18 and older. This move, which many had forecast, came at the end of a week in which …

White House plans rollout of vaccines for children from 5 through 11

As of Wednesday, the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines have a minimum age of 18 years. The Pfizer vaccine is available only for those 12 and older, under an Emergency Use Authorization, and …

Ted Cruz ropes Delta Airlines into his anti-factual war against vaccine mandates

It’s like the United States is two very different nations when it comes to COVID-19 vaccination. On the one hand, many people are riveted by the question of if and when they can get a booster shot. On …

Pfizer asks FDA to approve emergency use of COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11 years

It’s official: Pfizer and BioNTech have now formally asked the Food and Drug Administration to grant an emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine to be given to children aged 5 to 11 …

Pfizer has turned over the data from vaccine trials on kids under 12. What's next is up to the FDA

On Tuesday morning, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that they have submitted initial results from the Phase 2/3 trial of their COVID-19 vaccine on children between 5 and 12 to the Food and Drug …

Amid surge of kids with COVID-19, Pfizer offers a ray of hope with vaccine news

Pfizer and BioNTech have good news for parents who want to protect their children aged 5 to 11 from COVID-19: The companies’ coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective for children in that age group, …

How communities are planning to ensure equitable vaccine access for children of color

by Umme Hoque

This story was originally published at Prism.

With COVID-19 vaccine availability for children under 12 years old now on the horizon, advocates are calling for a clear investment in …

Booster shots work, but may not be needed when vaccines remain highly effective for most people

On Wednesday, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study from Israel that confirmed that giving a booster shot of COVID-19 vaccine to patients 60 and older greatly lowered infection rates …

Thousands call poison control after using livestock dewormer to treat coronavirus infection

Once again, we’ve reached the part of the pandemic where people ingest random chemicals to treat COVID-19 at home. The overwhelming majority of such people have decided COVID-19 vaccines are too risky …

COVID-19 vaccine gets FDA approval, vaccine 'hesitant' don't have any more excuses

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted full approval to the COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer. It’s been fully approved for people aged 16 and older, and is still authorized for …

Booster shots, vaccines for kids, and full FDA approval are all on the way. When do they arrive?

On Thursday, the White House COVID-19 response team reported an increase in vaccinations for those aged between 12 and 17. Though the current number of vaccinations is only running at around 630,000 …

Time to remove unscientific restrictions on abortion access for good, first with the 'abortion pill'

Opponents of abortion rights operate on multiple fronts. Beyond simply passing laws to broadly restrict or even ban the procedure—like Texas’ doozy of a bill that offers bounties on those seeking …

Trumpy Man who's concerned that vaccine was too rushed gives Trump all the credit for rushing it

Some day, when Donald Trump is made king of the MAGA States of America—a commonwealth of the kingdom of the mole people, where he will reign over the primeval subterranean realms for a millennium, or …