New FDA Covid vaccine policy raises access, transparency questions
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FDA approves Novavax Covid vaccine after delay
Helen Branswell covers issues broadly related to infectious diseases, including outbreaks, preparedness, research, and vaccine development. Follow her on Mastodon ...
Critic of Covid boosters set to enact tough agenda as top US vaccines official | US healthcare
Vinay Prasad, an oncologist and hematologist who has called for more regulatory scrutiny of pharmaceuticals, including Covid vaccines, was named ...
Failure to adopt covid suppression strategy led to avoidable deaths in the UK
Early in the covid-19 pandemic, the failure of UK government advisers to follow World Health Organization (WHO) advice and emerging ...
MAGA Calls to ‘Revoke’ Trump’s Surgeon General Nomination Accusing Her of Getting ‘the Covid Jab’: ‘Another MAHA Grifter’
President Donald Trump's newly announced nominee for US Surgeon General, Dr. Casey Means, is facing backlash from within the MAGA ...
US scientist who touted hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid named to pandemic prevention role | Trump administration
A proponent of using the drug hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19 despite scant evidence of its efficacy has been named to ...
COVID patients who don’t receive remdesivir not more likely to die, data suggest
digicomphoto / iStock A study at a Minnesota healthcare system finds that limiting the use of the antiviral drug remdesivir ...
How ‘revenge of the Covid contrarians’ unleashed by RFK Jr puts broader vaccine advances at risk | Robert F Kennedy Jr
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, entered office with a pledge to tackle the US’s chronic disease epidemic ...
Paxlovid may cut risk of stroke for at least 3 months after COVID diagnosis
Anthony Quintano / Flickr cc The use of the oral antiviral nirmatrelvir-ritonavir (Paxlovid) was linked to a significantly lower risk ...
Trump White House replaces Covid website with treatise on ‘lab leak’ theory | Trump administration
The Trump administration has replaced Covid.gov – a website that once provided Americans with access to information about free tests, ...
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