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CDC advisors decline to recommend boosters for health care workers, teachers

Enlarge / Signage outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (credit: Bloomberg | Getty Images) An independent committee of experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted Thursday to recommend booster doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine for persons ages 65 […]

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CDC advisors vote 10 to 4 to lift J&J pause, with new warning about clots

Enlarge / Boxes of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Florida. (credit: Getty | Paul Hennessy) A panel of expert advisors for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday voted 10 to four (with one abstention) in favor of lifting the pause on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 […]

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CDC expert panel punts on deciding fate of J&J COVID vaccine

Enlarge / Boxes of Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Florida. (credit: Getty | Paul Hennessy) An advisory committee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declined to vote on the fate of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, likely leaving in place a pause on the vaccine’s use […]

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CDC Pros vote: Here Is who should Find the Initial COVID-19 vaccine shots

Expand / Vials using COVID-19 Vaccine labels revealing logos of pharmaceutical firm Pfizer and German biotechnology firm de BioNTech. (charge: Getty | Photonews) The exact initial doses of any accepted COVID-19 vaccine must visit both front-line health care employees and inhabitants of long-term maintenance centers, a committee of specialist advisers for the Centers for Disease […]