U.S. CDC backs Moderna's COVID vaccine for teens, older children"Vaccinating this age group can provide greater confidence to families that their children and adolescents participating in childcare, scho...
24 Jun, 2022, 08.33 PM IST
Biden's pandemic fight: Inside the setbacks of the first yearVaccines had been the core of President Joe Biden's pandemic strategy from the moment he took office. But as Walensky was briefed about a c...
24 Jan, 2022, 11.45 AM IST
Delta, Alaska airlines cancel hundreds of flights due to bad weather, Omicron casesDelta said it expected to cancel more than 250 of 4,133 scheduled flights on Tuesday, while Alaska cancelled 170 flights across its network...
29 Dec, 2021, 02.20 PM IST
Omicron variant found in at least 15 US states: CDC chiefAt least 15 states have reported Omicron cases: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Ne...
05 Dec, 2021, 09.44 PM IST
America's CDC endorses COVID-19 booster shot for millions of older citizensThe panel on Thursday voted against saying that people can get a booster if they are ages 18 to 64 years and are health-care workers or hav...
24 Sep, 2021, 10.33 AM IST
US ready to roll out boosters: Surgeon General MurthyThe CDC will invest $2.1 billion to protect patients and healthcare workers from Covid-19 and future infectious diseases, CDC director Roch...
17 Sep, 2021, 11.17 PM IST
Vaccinated people may spread the coronavirus, though rarely, reports the American CDCThe vaccines remain powerfully effective against severe illness and death, and the agency said infections in vaccinated people were compara...
31 Jul, 2021, 01.09 PM IST
Delta variant may be as infectious as chickenpox, cause more severe infection, shows studyDelta is more transmissible than the virus that cause the common cold.
30 Jul, 2021, 06.33 PM IST
Delta variant accounts for 83% of US cases, says CDC"The best way to prevent the spread of COVID-19 variants is to prevent the spread of disease, and vaccination is the most powerful tool we ...
21 Jul, 2021, 06.49 AM IST
US warns Covid 'becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated'"There is a clear message that is coming through: this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated," Centers for Disease Control and Prevent...
17 Jul, 2021, 09.44 AM IST
Delta variant on its way to becoming dominant variant globally because of significantly increased transmissibility: top WHO official"The whole situation is so dynamic because of the variants that are now circulating and...the Delta variant is well on its way to becoming ...
18 Jun, 2021, 10.13 PM IST
Pfizer, BioNTech seek to extend COVID-19 vaccine use to adolescents in EUBioNTech said on Thursday that it expected its Covid-19 vaccine, jointly developed with Pfizer, to be available to 12 to 15-year-olds in Eu...
30 Apr, 2021, 05.08 PM IST
Joe Biden, CDC director warn of virus rebound if nation lets upPresident Joe Biden and a top health official warned that too many Americans are declaring virus victory too quickly, appealing for mask re...
30 Mar, 2021, 10.42 AM IST
Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines highly effective even after first shot in real-world useThe study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) evaluated the vaccines' ability to protect against infection, includ...
29 Mar, 2021, 10.06 PM IST
'Impending doom': CDC, White House warn of new surge as U.S. COVID-19 cases riseUnited States surpassed 30 million cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, and the seven-day average of new cases was slightly less than 60,000 cases ...
29 Mar, 2021, 09.42 PM IST
US gearing up to track three COVID-19 variantsThe agency has already warned that the highly contagious mutant strain that emerged in the UK could become dominant among Americans in the ...
19 Feb, 2021, 07.03 AM IST
US to escalate tracking of COVID variants as confirmed cases top 25 millionVaccination has become ever more urgent with the recent emergence of several coronavirus variants believed to be more transmissible, and in...
25 Jan, 2021, 11.37 AM IST