The updated guidance prioritizes older adults, high-risk individuals, and those who have never been vaccinated.

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On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that everyone 6 months and older get an updated COVID-19 vaccine to protect against the variants currently circulating in ...

A majority of Americans are not planning to get a COVID-19 booster vaccine this season, according to a survey. The Pew Research Center's survey of 9,593 U.S. adults, conducted between October 21 and ...

The Food and Drug Administration authorized an updated formula for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to adjust for the XBB1.5 variant this fall amid a surge in cases right after summer. With a long schedule of ...

COVID-19 vaccines are usually very effective at protecting us from serious illness, hospitalization, or death due to COVID-19. However, the protection provided with the initial vaccine series has been ...

Revamped COVID-19 vaccines are poised to do battle with the super-contagious omicron variant. On September 1, U.S. health officials greenlit the first major update of the mRNA-based shots, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday authorized updated Covid-19 vaccine booster shots from Moderna and Pfizer. This is the first time updated Covid-19 vaccines have received emergency use ...

A recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server assessed the safety and immunogenicity of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-1273 booster vaccine against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).