FDA panel is first key test for Biden COVID-19 booster plan
Scientists inside and outside the government have been divided in recent days over the need for boosters and who should get them.
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Indiana reports 32 more COVID deaths, dip in hospitalizations
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.
125 employees no longer with IU Health after refusing COVID-19 vaccine
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.
Small agency, big job: Biden tasks OSHA with vaccine mandate
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.
Indiana reports 31 more COVID-19 deaths
The seven-day moving average of new deaths rose from 26 to 27 per day, the state health department said.
FDA strikes cautious tone ahead of vaccine booster meeting
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 says booster shots of vaccine restore waning immunity
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.
Biden, CEOs, biz leaders meet about COVID-19 vaccine mandates
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.
Indiana reports drop in COVID-19 hospitalizations, 68 more deaths
More than 3.18 million Hoosiers had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Wednesday, up by 5,436 from the previous day.
U.S. government buys $330M worth of COVID-19 antibody doses from Lilly
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 districts get less money for quarantined students, but that might change
Indiana school districts grappling with a possible loss of funding for quarantining students could get relief under newly proposed legislation.
Indiana reports 91 more deaths from COVID-19, rise in hospitalizations
More than a third (33.6%) of Indiana’s intensive care unit beds are occupied by COVID patients.
Gates, Rockefeller warn leaders about pandemic’s impact
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.
Indiana reports 2,634 COVID-19 hospitalizations
More than 3.16 million Hoosiers had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as of Monday, up by 16,308 over the weekend.
FDA experts among group opposing U.S. booster shot plan
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.
Purdue warns 300 students, employees over COVID-19 policy
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.
Unvaccinated people 11 times more likely to die of COVID-19, CDC report finds
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.
Holcomb calls Biden’s vaccine order ‘a bridge too far’
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.
COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations continue to rise in Indiana
Indiana reported 22 new deaths due to COVID-19, lifting the cumulative total to 14,330 during the pandemic.
U.S. investigating airlines over slow refunds during pandemic
The Transportation Department says in a new report that it investigated 20 airlines over failures to issue prompt refunds to customers, and 18 of those probes are still going.