vaccines
BPHC to families: Stay up-to-date on COVID and flu vaccines this fall
Health The FDA and CDC are expected to approve updated COVID-19 vaccines in the coming weeks. Sara Ruiz of Revere holding her 6-year-old, Andrew, while he gets his second COVID vaccination shot in January 2022. Barry Chin/Globe Staff With back-to-school season around the corner, Bostonians should plan to update their COVID-19 and flu vaccines, the […]
RFK Jr. spent years stoking fear and mistrust of vaccines. Here’s who gets hurt by Kennedy’s work.
National News Many years before anti-vaccine activists exploited the pandemic to bring their ideas to the American mainstream, Kennedy, an environmental lawyer, was among the most influential spreaders of fear and distrust around vaccines. Padrig and Gina Fahey hold a photo of their son, Braden, 12, as they stand for a portrait in California on […]
Lexington native among winners of Nobel in medicine for work that enabled creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19
Local News Drew Weissman, who grew up in Massachusetts, and Katalin Karikó, a professor at Sagan’s University in Hungary and an adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, were awarded the prize for “their groundbreaking findings.” Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly, right, announces the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or […]
US approves updated COVID vaccines to rev up protection this fall
Health It’s part of a shift to treat fall updates of the COVID-19 vaccine much like getting a yearly flu shot. The Food and Drug Administration decision opens the newest shots to most Americans, even if they’ve never had a coronavirus vaccination. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis By LAURAN NEERGAARD, Associated Press September 11, 2023 | […]
Updated COVID shots are coming. They’re part of a trio of vaccines to block fall viruses
COVID “There will be a lot of virus this winter. That’s why we want to get ahead of it,” CDC chief Dr. Mandy Cohen said. Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, receives a flu vaccine from Nurse Practitioner Whitney Goggans at the Atlanta Press Club, where Cohen spoke about […]