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BioNTech founders were confident in the potential of their mRNA technology, which they knew could trigger a powerful immune response.

More than 47 million Pfizer vaccine recipients who received both shots at least six months ago became eligible for a booster Friday. More than 39.1 million Moderna vaccine recipients who received both shots at least six months ago became eligible for a booster Friday. The CDC adopted a slightly different criteria for J&J’s one-shot Covid vaccine, making almost 13 million…

Federal health regulators said late Friday that kid-size doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine appear highly effective at preventing symptomatic infections in elementary school children and caused no unexpected safety issues, as the U.S. weighs beginning vaccinations in youngsters.

Harvard associate professor Joseph Allen explains why he’s advocating setting firm masking deadlines in schools across the U.S.

Adobe told employees that it will abide by President Biden’s vaccine mandate since it is a government contractor.

The AY.4.2 subvariant has been detected in at least five cases in the U.S.: in Washington, D.C., California, North Carolina, Washington state and Massachusetts.

Millions of eligible Americans can now get a Covid vaccine booster shot from Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson or Moderna. Here’s how to tell which one is best for you.

Investor Paul Tudor Jones tested positive for Covid-19 after attending a dinner benefiting the Robin Hood Foundation.

The situation is looking bad once again in Britain, but a closer look reveals that it could be lot worse without the vaccines.

Dr. Vivek Murthy told CNBC on Friday that Covid booster shots from Moderna, J&J and Pfizer are all safe and effective.

U.S. stock futures were mixed Friday, a day after the S&P 500 closed at a record and extended its run of winning sessions to seven.

The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield hit 1.68% early on Friday, after the latest weekly jobless claims report came in lower than expected in the previous session.

The warnings come as government officials have insisted that more restrictions on public life are not yet necessary.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison said his government was in the final stages of working out a travel arrangement with the Singapore government.

A CDC advisory panel Thursday endorsed boosters of Moderna and J&J Covid vaccines, sending the recommendation to the agency’s director for final approval.

American and Southwest have urged employees to apply for medical and religious exemptions.

After nearly two years of pausing student loan bills, the U.S. Department of Education is trying to figure out how to start collecting the payments again.

In mid-September, Marcel Schliebs, a disinformation researcher at the University of Oxford who had been tracking messaging that Chinese diplomats and state media spread on Twitter for 18 months, spotted the emergence of a surprising coronavirus origin theory.

The CDC said the most common side effects people reported after getting Covid vaccine boosters included pain at the injection site, fatigue, fever and headache.

If the committee issues a recommendation, and the CDC signs off, additional shots for those vaccines could be distributed immediately to eligible people.