The Agency reviewed case reports from the FAERS database and calls from US poison control centers related to systemic symptoms after applying alcohol-based hand sanitizers to the skin.
An additional 200 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine will be obtained by the U.S. government in case there is a need for booster shots.
A coronavirus state of emergency in Tokyo and six other areas will be downgraded when it expires on Sunday as new daily cases continue to decline, the Japanese government said.
Restrictions on U.S. travelers to the European Union should be lifted, ambassadors in the 27-member bloc decided.
The American College of Physicians (ACP) released a statement supporting an “immediate ramping up of supply for distribution of COVID-19 vaccines equitably among and within countries in need.”
New York state has reached a milestone of having at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose in 70 percent of its residents and joined California in lifting many pandemic restrictions on Tuesday.
Among health care system employees, there are considerable disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates by race/ethnicity and occupation.
Among 30,000 volunteers — all of them from either the United States or Mexico — vaccinated people were completely protected against severe and even moderate cases of illness.
The highly transmissible Delta variant of the coronavirus has been classified as a “variant of concern” by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There is a strong inverse correlation between convalescent plasma use per admission and mortality for hospitalized COVID-19 patients.
