COVID-19, the vaccine
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A new, highly transmissible COVID subvariant has been detected in California—heightening the risk of a potential summer wave as recent moves by the Trump administration threaten to make vaccines harder to get,
Insurance coverage typically follows federal recommendations, so anyone who is healthy and under 65 is likely to have to pay out of pocket to get the shot ‒ which runs about $200 ‒ if they can get it. It's not clear what insurance companies will do about the new recommendations.
As promised, federal health officials this week dropped longstanding recommendations that healthy children and healthy pregnant women should get the COVID-19 vaccines.
Moderna's mNexspike COVID vaccine approved by FDA for older adults and at-risk groups after Phase 3 trial shows improved efficacy and safety profile.
Kennedy Jr.'s announcement that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for "healthy children and healthy pregnant women" follows years of spurious and misleading claims he made about the vaccine.