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Pfizer asked the U.S. to authorize its COVID vaccine for kids 6 months to 5 years old. Here's what we know about timing, safety, dosage and more.

Valneva Confirms Clinical Trial and Regulatory Submission Timelines for its Inactivated COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate VLA2001 Saint Herblain , January 6, 2022 - Valneva SE , a... | January 10, 2022

Racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have persisted throughout the pandemic, and improving vaccine access and uptake among the populations that are disproportionately impacted remains one of the most critical ways to stop the spread of the virus.

Through a six-month internship program, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as recent alumni, are working to cultivate trust within diverse communities to lessen COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy.

Using technology that can be manufactured and distributed across the world, a low-cost vaccine that got approval i believe in india that youve been working on. can you tell us about that and how important that is? >> yeah, so in our texas childrens center for vaccine development, part of our baylor college of medicine which i cohead with my science partner, dr. mary lena patazti, we develop low-cost vaccines that the big pharma wont make because theyre for diseases of poverty. ten years ago we a...

Testing at city-run sites doubled this week compared to last week, Hurtado said with 12,132 tests already administered as of 3:30 p.m. Thursday.

Tenacity. >> reporter: the protein that could be the key to a vaccine that would prevent the most deadly and aggressive type of breast cancer known as triple negative. the vaccine works by jump starting the immune system and attacking any tumors that contain a specific protein that should not be present unless a woman is lactating. >> once weve established that we can produce an immune response, we want to rapidly move it earlier to the disease process, again, to the prevention setting where we ...

Variant and the direction viruses the end to go. they spread more easily but less deadly over time. we hope for that but we should be prepared. we should have ramped up testing and treatments and the vaccine program. i actually think that if we could change tones to a more inclusive strategy here rather than this whole idea of a stern warning. you heard the press secretary a stern warning again. the country has been warned and warned and warned. how about an inclusive strategy and bring people t...

The two B.C. residents are urging health officials to grant patients with the rare condition, called vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia (VITT), an exemption from the second dose.

Really high even though we have this massive vaccine program here. if you look at deaths its the same. the death rate is lower, far lower than it was at the same peak last year and it looks like its going to maintain the same rate. its been basically flat lined but the number of optizations is starting to increase and thats why were hearing from politicians that things could get overwhelming for hospitals in january in the coming months but still stephanie, theres no word on further lockdowns. t...