FDA withdraws emergency use authorization of COVID drug because it is unlikely to be effective against new variants Friday, January 27 by ABC News(WASHINGTON) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday it is withdrawing its emergency use authorization of a COVID-19 antibody therapy as a prevention tool because it is unlikely to be effective against variants that are currently circulating.Evusheld, which is made by British-Swedish... Read More.
Mystery as to why new COVID variants have stalled in growth Tuesday, September 6 by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Throughout much of the pandemic, there has been a constant shifting in terms of which COVID-19 variants are most dominant, at a given time, in the U.S.However, for the last five weeks, federal data shows that there has been little to... Read More.
Americans keep getting reinfected with COVID-19 as new variants emerge, data shows Wednesday, June 8 by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Despite a rather unpleasant bout with COVID-19 this past January, Jennifer McDonnell was relieved to think that she, and her family, could finally return to normal life, with a potentially strong immune protection stemming from both vaccination and a past infection.“We... Read More.
Pfizer may have COVID-19 booster that addresses omicron, other variants by fall Thursday, April 14 by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- By this fall, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its partner BioNTech could potentially have a COVID-19 booster that specifically addresses the omicron variant as well as its subvariants and other known strains of the virus, CEO Albert Bourla said during a panel... Read More.
Decline of testing, sequencing could hinder search for future COVID-19 variants, experts warn Wednesday, March 30 by ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, disease surveillance efforts that rely on testing and variant sequencing have been critical tools in the global efforts to fight the virus.Without these tools, experts said, the spread of COVID-19 could have been exponentially greater, potentially resulting... Read More.
COVID-19, VACCINATIONS AND BOOSTERS, REVISITED AND THE NEW VARIANTS – NEED TO KNOW Saturday, November 27 by Marcee MaylinIn early 2020, and by many perspectives, months before, we were all subjected to a new global pandemic named COVID-19. Here are some facts and information to assist in the handling of the virus.COVID-19 is in the Coronavirus family which has been with us... Read More.