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This makes the Johnson & Johnson vaccine the third vaccine to have emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Pfizer announced Thursday the company is launching a new study of its COVID-19 vaccine. They’re going back to 144 phase 1 clinical trial participants with a third dose – a booster shot. It comes a day after Moderna also announced a third-shot study. “These companies are doing their due diligence to stay on track of this virus as it’s mutating…

Pfizer and Moderna announce plans to test a third COVID-19 shot as a booster against the new variants of the virus.

The FDA could approve a new one-shot COVID vaccine by Friday, as Congress decides on COVID relief bill details. The Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine is over 20 percent less effective than Pfizer and Moderna’s, but still far better than a flu shot.

COVID-19 vaccine makers tell Congress to expect a big jump in the delivery of doses over the coming month.

The grim milestone means the U.S. continues to lead the world in overall cases and deaths.

As states and medical centers roll out COVID-19 vaccines, many are highlighting recipients from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds to build trust. This is in part due to vaccine hesitancy, especially in Black communities where a history of medical testing without consent and inadequate access to health care has built distrust. A recent study by the Kaiser Family...

Coronavirus vaccinations are well underway in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The three states have received about 1 million doses thus far and expect hundreds of thousands more in allocations before the month is out. While they have slightly different rollout plans as far as timing, all three states are subscribing to the priority population guidance issued by the…

Health experts are debating what to tell study volunteers who got a placebo shot instead of a COVID-19 vaccine.

The first batch of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine has arrived at a U.S. Army base in South Korea.

A Boston doctor who used an EpiPen on himself after having the first known allergic reaction to Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine is speaking out about his experience. Within moments of receiving the first dose of the vaccine on Thursday, Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh of Boston Medical Center said his heart began racing. He initially thought it was anxiety, he said, but...

A Boston doctor had an allergic reaction after receiving Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine on Thursday, according to the hospital where he works, but is doing well. Boston Medical Center confirmed Friday night that Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, who reportedly has a severe shellfish allergy, was taken to the emergency department after his first dose of the Cambridge-based company’s vaccine. It’s the...

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar received their first dose of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday.

As COVID-19 vaccination advancement continues, the first round of the Moderna vaccine has arrived in Connecticut. On Monday, Hartford HealthCare received and distributed their first vaccine shipment and it’s already being touted as even more flexible for storage and usage than Pfizer. “I think the big difference is that it can be really put in a lot of different...

Health care workers in Massachusetts began receiving the country’s second approved coronavirus vaccine Monday, developed by Cambridge-based Moderna. There were cheers at the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center when Dr. Jaime Gallegos became its first staffer to get the injection. He held a sign in his lap saying, “Take that, COVID!” Gallegos called the vaccine’s rollout a “great milestone,”...

The first doses of the newly approved Moderna vaccine arrived at Hartford Hospital Monday morning.

Governor Ned Lamont announced the approval of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in Connecticut and the first doses of the vaccine were given on Monday morning shortly after it arrived in the state. Lamont said he has directed the state Dept. of Public Health to add Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to the state’s ongoing vaccination program after a recommendation from the Governor’s...

Vaccinations for frontline health care workers using the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine began on Monday morning just hours after it arrived in the state.

Hartford Hospital says they expect the arrival and distribution of the Moderna COVID vaccine by 9 p.m. on Monday. Following the arrival of the vaccine, 10 frontline healthcare workers from Hartford Hospital will receive the vaccine, according to a hospital spokesperson. Moderna’s vaccine started shipping Sunday to sites across the nation, with 5.9 million doses scheduled across for delivery this…

A federal advisory panel has recommended that people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers be put next in line for COVID-19 shots as a second vaccine began rolling out to hospitals