Following reported success of both the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty and the antiviral pill Paxlovid, Pfizer has announced that it will move forward on new vaccines to combat the coronavirus pandemic and influenza at the same time. Meanwhile, stakeholders are requesting an extension of the public health emergency declaration beyond its...
Throughout the pandemic, parents of young children have received conflicting messages. Until the surge in cases related to the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, children appeared to have relatively low levels of serious illness caused by COVID-19.
This low risk, as well as the national scrutiny of vaccine effectiveness and side effects,...
