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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and...

Taipei, April 17 (CNA) Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the use of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine in children aged 6-11 on Sunday, setting it up to become the first COVID-19 vaccine in Taiwan available to children under the age of 12.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) yesterday issued emergency use authorization for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for children aged six to 11. Specialists attended a meeting at the FDA yesterday morning to review the safety and effectiveness of Moderna’s Spikevax vaccine on children aged six to 11, FDA Director Wu Shou-mei (吳秀梅) said. They agreed that the vaccine is suitable for children in that age category as their primary series of vaccines, she said, adding that each dosage should...

LOW RISK: A clinical trial found the chance of children aged six to 11 having a bad reaction to the Moderna vaccine was about the same as for adults, the FDA saidBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporter

The California Department of Public Health issued the following statement on April 14 regarding a new implementation timeline for adding the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of vaccinations required to attend school.

Requirements for coronavirus vaccines will not take effect in the state until the Food...

The California Dept. of Public Health announced that the timeline for school vaccinations will be pushed back to at least July 1, 2023.

More than 10,000 kids under 12 have participated in trials for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

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Taipei, April 14 (CNA) A health expert said Thursday that Taiwan may not see low levels of COVID-19 transmission until September, while highlighting two "weaknesses" the country faces as it shifts from a strategy based on COVID elimination to one based on mitigation.