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AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had submitted a request with U.S. health regulators to grant emergency use authorisation for a new treatment to prevent COVID-19. The British drugmaker had said in August that the treatment, an antibody therapy called AZD7442, had reduced the risk of people developing any COVID-19 symptoms by 77% in a late-stage trial. (Reporting by Sachin Ravikumar in

COVID-19 cases in children continue to rise, bringing concerns that more kids will suffer lasting consequences.

COVID-19 cases in Florida are continuing on a downward trend, while some public health experts are optimistic about what that means for the state as we continue to navigate through the pandemic.

The Army outlined its plan today to fully comply with the Secretary of Defense’s order requiring all Service members to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

Emory has been involved in testing all three vaccines currently in use in the U.S. Infectious disease experts Aneesh Mehta and Colleen Kelley answer questions about FDA approval, variants, masking and more.

The Defense Department has announced that vaccines will be mandatory for all service members, although it did not provide a timetable for when that feat would be accomplished. 

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine. Emory experts are available to discuss the FDA approval announcement as well as all the other ways COVID-19 continues to impact us all.

The governor of New Mexico and one of her cabinet secretaries is again facing a lawsuit after issuing a COVID-19 public health order requiring healthcare workers, among other professions like teachers or school staff, to be vaccinated unless they qualify for an exemption. The order, which was issued on Aug. 18, also requires that anyone […]

By about five days after we got approval for a merge and see use authorization. i got educated on it, started using those. alabama at that time had more monoclonal antibodies given per capita than any state. weve been doing this for years. we develop infrastructure across the state, myself and dr. mike from university of alabama. that kept us from surging so bad last winter. we have a different drug now. the same thing that president trump got. we have broad eligibility. ive said, if you are 12 ...

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