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Moderna Says Its Covid-19 Booster Shots Show Promise Against Variants © apu gomes/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Booster shots under development by Moderna Inc. helped improve immune responses against some variants among people given the company’s Covid-19 vaccine in an early study, the biotech company said Wednesday. The results, though preliminary, are a sign that adding booster shots several months after original vaccinations could bolster people’s immunity against more contagious strains of the virus. The company tested giving people boosts with either a single dose of its origi...

By Peter Loftus Vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 shot should resume, U.S. health regulators said after investigating rare blood-clotting cases, restoring a key tool for filling gaps in the mass vaccination campaign. To alert doctors and recipients to the condition that led to a pause in the vaccine's use last week, J&J and regulators plan to add language to the shot's label and fact sheets warning of the clotting condition risk. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday lifted their recommendation to pau...

Breaking News... Vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 shot should resume, U.S. health regulators said after investigating rare blood-clotting cases, restoring a key tool for filling gaps in the mass vaccination campaign. To alert doctors and recipients to the condition that led to a pause in the vaccine's use last week, J&J and regulators plan to add language to the shot's label and fact sheets warning of the clotting condition risk. (More to Come) The following article will be updated momentarily A federal vaccine advisory committee Friday recomme...

By Peter Loftus Vaccinations with Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 shot should resume, U.S. health regulators said after investigating rare blood-clotting cases, restoring a key tool for filling gaps in the mass vaccination campaign. To alert doctors and recipients to the condition that led to a pause in the vaccine's use last week, J&J and regulators plan to add language to the shot's label and fact sheets warning of the clotting condition risk. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday lifted their recommendation to pau...

By William Mauldin President Biden's chief medical adviser said he expects Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine to return to use in the U.S. by Friday, following a pause due to concerns about blood clots in several patients. "I would be very surprised...if we don't have a resumption in some form by Friday," Dr. Anthony Fauci told CBS's "Face the Nation," echoing remarks he made on other networks Sunday. U.S. health authorities on Tuesday recommended suspending use of J&J's single-dose shot out of an abundance of caution while they investigate reports of the six women who got...