Question: The federal government approved the Pfizer vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds. What does this mean for my child? Answer: Children in this age group now can receive the two-dose vaccine without a waiting period between other routine vaccinations, giving parents an opportunity to immunize their children before summer camps or a return to in-person […]
More than 120 million Americans have joined arguably the most sought-after club on Earth: those immunized against the coronavirus. Fully vaccinated people were given the green light in March by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to gather with other fully vaccinated people (or with low-risk unvaccinated people from one other household) without a […]
Question: How can the COVID-19 vaccines be safe when they were developed so fast? Answer: The development of the first vaccines may have seemed to occur at a dizzying pace. After all, scientists identified a new virus and created vaccines to protect against its most severe effects within a year. But the research underpinning these […]
It’s been a long, dark winter of Covid-19 concerns, stoked by high post-holiday case counts and the American death tally exceeding 530,000 lives lost. But with three vaccines — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — now authorized for emergency use in the United States, there seems to be hope that the pandemic’s end may […]