Enlarge / Dr. Peter Marks, Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research within the Food and Drug Administration, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the federal coronavirus response on Capitol Hill on March 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. (credit: Getty | Pool) The pandemic coronavirus will likely […]
Tag: Vaccines
Pfizer CEO pushes for fourth shots as anxiety over BA.2 subvariant rises
Enlarge / Pfizer Chairman and CEO Dr. Albert Bourla speaks onstage at the 2022 SXSW Conference at JW Marriott Austin on March 14, 2022 in Austin. (credit: Getty | Chris Saucedo) While US health experts closely monitor upticks of COVID-19 cases in Europe as well as the global rise of the omicron subvariant BA.2, Pfizer […]
Florida’s latest anti-health political stunt is to cast doubt on kids’ vaccines
Enlarge / Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Rosen Shingle Creek on February 24, 2022, in Orlando, Florida. (credit: Getty| Joe Raedle) Sometimes fighting a common enemy can unite a country, inspiring solidarity, bravery, and sacrifice. Ordinary citizens become heroes; leaders become icons. But sometimes—like in the […]
Why covering anti-evolution laws has me worried about the future of vaccines
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Prior to the pandemic, the opposition to vaccines was apolitical. The true believers were a small population and confined to the fringes of both major parties, with no significant representation in the political mainstream. But over the past year, political opposition to vaccine mandates has solidified, with a steady stream of […]
Microsoft’s app-store pledges are a great example of stakeholder capitalism
It’s getting ahead of regulators in the right way. Read More
Meta’s European warning wasn’t a threat—but if it does have to withdraw, U.S. surveillance laws will be to blame
No amount of muscle-flexing would change the reality of European law. Read More
Should natural gas and nuclear play a part in the energy transition?
Austria and other countries will likely sue the European Commission over its guidelines. Read More
For T-cells, omicron is nothing unusual
Enlarge / False-color image of a T-cell (orange) latching on to a cell in preparation for killing it. (credit: Getty Images) From the start, the omicron variant had people worried because its version of the spike protein carried mutations in many of the sites that are recognized by antibodies. This meant that antibodies generated to […]
Omicron may have FDA rethinking vaccine strategy for kids under 5
Enlarge / A child getting a vaccination on February 19, 2021, in Bonn, Germany. (credit: Getty | Ute Grabowsky) The Food and Drug Administration may be reconsidering its criteria for authorizing COVID-19 vaccine doses for children under age five, according to Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA commissioner and a current board member of vaccine-maker Pfizer. […]
Hemmed in by regulators, Meta’s real growing pains are still to come
Meta’s M&A ambitions are in trouble and its organic reinvention efforts keep failing. Read More