vaccine

Published
March 30, 2022

Biden receives second booster, presses Congress on virus funds

The president used the occasion Wednesday to call on Congress to pass billions of dollars in additional funding to fight the pandemic.
Published
March 29, 2022

FDA authorizes another booster shot of Pfizer or Moderna vaccine for people 50 and older

The question is whether everyone who's eligible should rush out and get it.
Published
March 23, 2022

Moderna says its low-dose COVID-19 shots work for kids younger than 6

Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
Published
February 22, 2022

COVID-19 shots found unlikely to prompt inflammation in children

A new analysis shows that vaccines are unlikely to trigger multisystem inflammatory syndrome, a rare complication in kids who have had COVID-19.
Published
February 21, 2022

Overwhelmed by uncertainty, families with kids under 5 are on a vaccine roller coaster

Parents of children younger than 5 say they feel forgotten and left behind, watching others reclaim normalcy while they stay at home with kids who are too young to be vaccinated.
Published
February 14, 2022

Scientists seeking universal coronavirus vaccine

They are inventing shots designed to foster an immunity wall that will repel the known variants and those yet to emerge.
Published
February 11, 2022

Booster effectiveness wanes after 4 months, but shows sturdy protection against hospitalization

How long that third shot's protection lasts is a critical question facing public health officials because many people received their third dose months ago.
Published
February 8, 2022

COVID deaths highest in a year as omicron targets the unvaccinated and elderly

The recent uptick in coronavirus deaths also likely includes residual deaths from delta surges that were just starting to hit parts of the country including New England in late fall before omicron became the dominant strain.
Published
February 6, 2022

The Maine Millennial: Some were saved from the Holocaust with vaccines

Among the medicines that anti-vaxxers compare to Nazi war crimes were those developed by prisoners and enemies of the Third Reich.
Published
February 2, 2022

Step by step, more nations ease coronavirus restrictions

The loosening of omicron's grip in many places has given rise to hope that the outbreak is about to enter a new phase in which the virus will become, like the flu, a persistent but generally manageable threat that people can live with.