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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on April 19 that older people and people with weakened immune systems may obtain additional doses of the updated (bivalent) COVID-19 vaccines. The change comes as part of the CDC’s efforts to simplify its COVID-19 vaccine recommendations. The agency said the move also gives people at higher […]

Adults and teens who buy toys for themselves are a big boon to the toy industry. In fact, they’ve been estimated to make up an entire quarter of all annual toy sales, according to the NPD Group. NPD group defines these people as anyone over age 12. These people tend to enjoy toys that remind […]

Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on Friday signed a controversial law introducing a national COVID-19 vaccine mandate for adults that includes fines. Those without proof of vaccination or exemption face an initial fine of 600 euros ($680) and additional fines up to 3,600 euros ($4,100). Individuals can be fined up to four times per year, […]

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday approved Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for the prevention of the virus that causes COVID-19 for all Americans 18 and older, despite the vaccine providing little protection against the illness since the emergence of the Omicron virus variant. The FDA said the vaccine was 93 percent effective in preventing […]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday authorized boosters of the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines for all Americans 18 or older. “The FDA has determined that the currently available data support expanding the eligibility of a single booster dose of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to individuals 18 years of age and […]

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has made their decision, saying they’ll recommend booster shots for adults. They say this is because people’s antibodies are declining over time.

A 6-year-old girl was killed and five adults were injured in a shooting in the District of Columbia, on Friday night, officials said. The incident happened shortly after 11 p.m. in the southeast part of the district. Metropolitan Police Department Executive Assistant Chief Ashan Benedict said officers in the area heard gunshots and, as they […]

The EU has delivered enough coronavirus vaccine doses to member states to reach a target to fully vaccinate at least 70 percent of adults in the bloc.

The CDC said it is investigating reports of heart inflammation in teenagers and young adults who have received the CCP virus vaccine.

More than a quarter of adults in the European Union would be unlikely to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it was offered to them.

Young healthy volunteers are being deliberately infected with the CCP virus in the first human challenge trial in the United Kingdom.

One of the leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates was 94 percent effective in adults older than 65, according to new clinical trial results.

A small plane crashed in a suburban Salt Lake City neighborhood, killing at least three people, police said.

There are tentative signs that children may not spread the CCP virus as much as adults, two top epidemiologists said on May 19.

Four Michigan teenagers linked to a rock-throwing incident that left a man dead will be charged as adults, a judge ruled. Mark Sekelsky, 18; Mikadyn Payne, 17; Trevor Gray, 16; and Alexzander Miller, 17, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and asked to be sentenced as juveniles but that request has been rejected by Judge Joseph Farah […]