vaccines

Several coronavirus vaccines are now in final stages for approval, but doctors are already worried that the public won’t want to take them. Dr. Paul Biddinger, who sits on the Massachusetts governor’s advisory group for COVID-19 vaccines, joined LX News to explain the many safety steps required for the vaccines to be approved for the general public and when to...

With both the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines making headlines this week, we’re all wondering when we can sign up to get a dose. Dr. Ruth A. Karron, a research director at the Johns Hopkins Vaccine Initiative, joined LX News to explain how the vaccines are likely to get rolled out and why we all need to remain vigilant in the...

Moderna and Pfizer have now both reported that their COVID-19 vaccines have been highly effective in trials. But how do they work, and what are the differences between the two? Benjamin Neuman, a professor of biological studies at Texas A&M, breaks down the specifics of both vaccines.

Confidence in vaccines has been on the decline for years. And experts link that growing skepticism, in part, to a wave of misinformation that has proliferated online. With a coronavirus vaccine on the way next year, NBCLX’s Fernando Hurtado set out to debunk some of the myths and conspiracy theories about vaccines. Send this video to the skeptic in your...

The race is on not just to develop a coronavirus vaccine, but also determine how to distribute it ethically and efficiently. All Americans likely will have access to a developed vaccine within a year to a year and half of approval, but a CDC advisory group is recommending initial doses go to healthcare workers and high risk groups first.

Doctors are urging parents to make sure their kids are up to date on their vaccinations, even if they’re doing virtual learning. Health experts say vaccination rates are still not back to pre-pandemic levels, which is needed to prevent a concurrent outbreak during the coronavirus pandemic.

Josh Morrison of 1 Day Sooner is advocating on behalf of volunteers who want to deliberately expose themselves to infections such as COVID-19 to test vaccines and other treatments at great risk to themselves.

As the world awaits an effective Covid-19 vaccine, the New York Times reports on commonly held anti-vax fallacies that provides yet another challenge to eradicating the disease.

A deep dive into the vaccines showing the most promise in battling Covid-19 as volunteer trials get underway.

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.

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...

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.

The legislature’s Public Health Committee approved a bill that would removed the religious exemption for vaccinations for school-age children.

The legislature’s Public Health Committee approved a bill that would removed the religious exemption for vaccinations for school-age children.