For young, healthy people who may be wondering, “do I need a COVID booster at all?”, having one annually is sensible.

The UK has become the first country in the world to authorise an updated COVID-19 booster vaccine directed at the Omicron variant, giving a green light to Moderna's mRNA-1273.214 shot.

As expected, the FDA has moved quickly to grant emergency use authorisation (EUA) to two new-generation COVID-19 mRNA vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, both targeting the new Omicron ...

Stacker consulted research from Yale Medical School and the World Health Organization to find how SARS-CoV-2 has evolved ...

The updated vaccine covers all major COVID variants that have developed so far, including previous Omicron strains and the new JN1 variant. Thanks to the flexibility of mRNA technology ...

Moderna: Moderna was granted FDA Emergency Use ... Updated data for Davidson County Across the United States, KP.3.1.1 of the Omicron family, is the leading variant, accounting for 57% of cases ...

Pfizer's Omicron XBB. 1.5, Original/Omicron BA.4/5 and Moderna's Omicron XBB. 1.5 were available for people aged 12 years and older, according to Healthdirect. The TGA said it was evaluating ...

Health officials say eligible residents can receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the same time as or at any time before or after ...

An abundance of evidence indicates the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines are remarkably safe and work well to protect against severe disease. But last month, the state of Florida issued updated vaccine guidance ...

Updated COVID-19 vaccines targeting JN.1-lineage omicron variants of the coronavirus are now available in the U.S. for the fall and winter seasons. Here we answer common questions about the latest ...

1-lineage variants of omicron rather than the XBB.1.5 omicron variant. This is akin to a strain change for a seasonal ...

The updated Moderna and Pfizer shots target the KP.2 variant, known as one of the FLiRT subtypes of omicron. The Novavax booster targets the JN.1 strain. Both of those strains were dominant ...