Data about booster shots for those who had received the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccines could be a few weeks away from being reviewed, days after an FDA panel approved booster shots for a limited population of those who had received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Scientists inside and outside the government have been divided in recent days over the need for boosters and who should get them.
The Indiana State Department of Health has reported 222 new deaths from COVID-19 over the past four days, an average of 55.5 per day.
The state’s largest hospital system said the employees had been suspended for two weeks without pay and would have been eligible to return to work if they had attested to partial or full vaccination.
The assignment is sure to test an understaffed agency that has struggled to defend its authority in court. And the legal challenges to Biden’s vaccine mandate will be unrelenting.
The seven-day moving average of new deaths rose from 26 to 27 per day, the state health department said.
Influential government advisers will debate Friday if there’s enough proof that a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective—the first step toward deciding which Americans need one and when.
Pfizer said that data from the United States and Israel suggest that the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine wanes over time, and that a booster dose was safe and effective at warding off the virus and new variants.
The White House meeting comes less than a week after Biden announced that the Labor Department is working to require businesses with 100 or more employees to order those workers to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, or show a negative test result at least weekly.
More than 3.18 million Hoosiers had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Wednesday, up by 5,436 from the previous day.
Eli Lilly’s therapy has been shown to be highly effective against the delta variant, which is now the dominant strain of the coronavirus in the United States.
Indiana school districts grappling with a possible loss of funding for quarantining students could get relief under newly proposed legislation.
More than a third (33.6%) of Indiana’s intensive care unit beds are occupied by COVID patients.
Leaders of the Gates and Rockefeller Foundations are warning that the pandemic could set back global progress on education, public health and gender equality for years.
More than 3.16 million Hoosiers had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Monday, up by 16,308 over the weekend.
The average person doesn’t need a COVID-19 booster yet, an international group of scientists—including two top U.S. regulators—wrote Monday in a scientific journal.
The students and employees face disciplinary action for failing to comply with the school’s mandatory COVID-19 testing for those who haven’t provided proof of vaccination.
Three major studies published Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlight the continued efficacy of all three vaccines amid the spread of the highly contagious delta variant.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb, who has long encouraged Hoosiers to get COVID-19 vaccines, on Friday pushed back against President Biden’s order that all businesses with more than 100 employees require their workers to be immunized or face weekly testing.
Indiana reported 22 new deaths due to COVID-19, lifting the cumulative total to 14,330 during the pandemic.
