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.
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.
Companies won’t have to worry about being sued, since it’s a government mandate and not one from the employer.
People who refuse to comply with a federal mandate that requires them to wear masks in airports, and on trains, buses and in other public transportation settings will face stiffer penalties from the Transportation Security Agency.
President Joe Biden announced sweeping new COVID vaccine mandates Thursday designed to affect tens of millions of Americans. He also adopted an antagonistic tone toward the unvaccinated Thursday, placing blame on those refusing to get shots for harming other Americans.
More than a third (33.6%) of the state’s intensive care unit beds are occupied by COVID-19 patients, the Indiana State Department of Health said on Thursday.
A lot is riding on the revival of in-person meetings. Prior to the pandemic, conferences and trade shows generated more than $1 trillion in direct spending and attracted 1.5 billion attendees annually around the world, according to the Events Industry Council, a trade group.
