Tag: COVID-19

Nearly one in 10 children, ages 5 through 11, got their first COVID vaccine in the first two weeks after they became eligible, according to White House estimates. But is the newly vaccinated population skewed by race, as has been the case for adults? Few health systems have released numbers to address that question, report Annie Ma and Mike Melia at AP.

Once upon a time, President Joe Biden was against vaccine mandates. As president-elect in December 2020, he was asked, "Do you want vaccines to be mandatory?" His answer at the time seemed clear, "No I don't think it should be mandatory, I wouldn't demand it be mandatory." But that was then, and this is now.

Following the U.S. Food & Drug Administration’s (FDA) recent action authorizing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 in children 5 through 11 years of age and a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is reminding eligible consumers that coverage is available without cost-sharing under Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and in the commercial market for this critical protection from the virus. As with all vaccines, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine was tested thoroughly in this age group prior to its authorization for emergency use.

Quercetin has been in the news lately, particularly as one of many potential therapeutics that might have some benefit in the prevention or treatment of COVID infection. Is there anything to this?

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) panel signed off kid-size doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children from ages 5 to 11.