coronavirus vaccine

Novavax’s Covid shots rely on protein technology used in other vaccines for decades, rather than the messenger RNA used in the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.

A day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed updated COIVD-19 boosters, the Connecticut Department of Public Health said some sites will have the updated booster available by today and others should have them just after the Labor Day holiday. On Thursday afternoon, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to recommend the use of the...

Pfizer says tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and boosts protection.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee on Saturday endorsed Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines for young children, the last step before Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky can issue her final signoff.

U.S. health officials have opened COVID-19 vaccines for infants, toddlers and preschoolers — the last group without the shots.

White House officials say orders have been coming in for COVID-19 vaccine doses for small children. Federal authorization of shots for U.S. kids under 5 is possible next week. The government last week began allowing pharmacies and states to place orders, with 5 million doses initially available. So far, about 1.45 million of the 2.5 million available doses of Pfizer...