On Tuesday November 2, 2021, the CDC spent the day reviewing data about Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11. Ultimately, every single person on the panel voted to approve the vaccine for this age group. This comes...
On Tuesday October 26, 2021, the FDA spent the day reviewing the data about Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11. They had to decide if the benefits of the vaccine outweighed the risks for this age...
Currently, there aren’t any Covid-19 vaccines fully approved or approved for emergency use authorization (EUA) by the FDA for anyone under the age of 12. That means that children are not able to get vaccinated. That may not be...
At first, the Covid vaccine was in limited supply and only a few people like the elderly population and healthcare workers were eligible to get vaccinated. Many people felt lucky and thankful when it was their turn to get...
Pregnancy can be an exciting and stressful time. There are a lot of unknowns for new parents, and there are a lot of decisions to make. For example, parents have to decide everything from where to have the baby to what to name...
More than 2,200 children participated in a clinical trial of a Pfizer vaccine for Covid-19. The children were between the ages of 5 and 11 years old. According to Pfizer, the vaccine is safe and effective for this age...
On August 16, The New York State Department of Health announced that all health care workers in the state of New York would need to receive at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by September 27, 2021, or they would lose their...
Covid-19 vaccines were first approved for emergency use authorization by the FDA at the end of 2020. Since there weren’t a lot of doses of the vaccines available right away, the roll out had to start with the people who were...
If you thought you were done rolling up your sleeve for the Covid-19 vaccine, get ready to roll up your sleeve one more time. Covid-19 booster shots could begin as early as September 20, 2021.
According to President Joe Biden, a...
If you have battled Covid-19, you might know that it can be very unpleasant. While some people skate by with few if any symptoms, others suffer for days or weeks, trying to get over symptoms like fatigue, body aches and...