By Nadia Kounang and Katherine Dillinger, CNN Pfizer and BioNTech announced Wednesday that they have completed their submission requesting emergency use authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration for their Covid-19 vaccine in children ages 6 months to 5 years. Data from a phase 2/3 trial of the vaccine included 1,678 children who had
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St. Charles Urgent Care clinics are now federally designated Test to Treat (T2T) sites where people at high risk of severe COVID-19 illness can get fast and easy access to therapeutics, the health system said Tuesday.
Continue ReadingBy Devan Cole, CNN California Gov. Gavin Newsom has tested positive for Covid-19 and is taking antiviral medication, his office announced Saturday. “This morning, the governor tested positive for Covid-19 after exhibiting mild symptoms. The governor will continue to work remotely,” the Democrat’s office said in a statement, noting that he will be in isolation
Continue ReadingOLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said Wednesday, the same day state health officials urged people to wear face mask indoors as case counts steadily rise. At a news conference the state’s public health leaders said they weren’t issuing mandates but “strongly recommending” masks be worn
Continue ReadingBy Rob Picheta and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Vaccines, variants, natural immunity and better treatment options mean catching Covid-19 now isn’t the same as it was a year or two ago. But for millions of people who contracted the virus even in the pandemic’s first months, the impact of the disease lingers. As many as one
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso, CNN The School District of Philadelphia reinstated face masks in schools, a month after masks were made optional, due to an uptick in cases in the area, the district announced. “Until further notice, all School District students and staff will be required to wear their masks during the school and work day
Continue ReadingPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is reporting some of the highest numbers of new COVID-19 cases since the pandemic started more than two years ago. The Oregon Health Authority reported nearly 12,000 new cases last week and the state is averaging 1,685 new cases a day, The Oregonian/OregonLive reported Tuesday. That’s higher than all but
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Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., released the following statement Monday after testing positive for COVID-19:
Continue ReadingBy Nadia Kounang, CNN Three child-size doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine appeared to be safe and showed a strong immune response in children ages 6 months to 5 years, the companies said Monday. The vaccine makers said they will finish submitting the trial data to the US Food and Drug Administration this week. The
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Beijing has extended orders for workers and students to stay home and ordered additional mass testing as cases of COVID-19 again rise in the city. Numerous residential compounds have restricted movement in and out, although conditions remain far less severe than in Shanghai, where millions of citizens have been under varying degrees
Continue ReadingBy Jen Christensen, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention signed off on boosters for 5- to 11-year-olds following the independent vaccine advisers recommendation for an additional dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine following a primary series. The CDC’s vaccine advisers voted 11-1, with 1 abstention Thursday to support recommending a booster dose,
Continue ReadingTACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Nine people held at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma have joined in a hunger strike to protest what they say are unclean conditions amid worries about a COVID spread. The strike began Friday, according to the group La Resistencia. The facility that is among the largest immigration detention centers
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The Oregon Health Authority held its monthly media availability Wednesday, providing an update on COVID-19 in Oregon as cases have been on the rise.
Continue ReadingBy Deidre McPhillips, CNN More than one million people have now died of Covid-19 in the US since the pandemic’s start, according to Tuesday data from Johns Hopkins University — a reminder the pandemic is not over even as much of the country pushes to move away from Covid-19 measures. And experts believe the true
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Sealy, CNN The US Food and Drug Administration has granted emergency use authorization for a booster dose of Pfizer/BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11 at least five months after completion of the primary vaccine series. Pfizer requested this EUA at the end of April, citing company data that showed that
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has mobilized the military to respond to the country’s first officially acknowledged outbreak of Covid-19, as the impoverished nation scrambles to address what state media has described as a “major national emergency.” Despite having placed all cities under lockdown on Thursday, a
Continue ReadingBy Michael Nedelman and Forrest Brown, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidance for people traveling within the United States. The agency now urges all domestic travelers to “consider getting tested as close to the time of departure as possible (no more than three days) before your trip,” according
Continue ReadingBEIJING (AP) — Most of Shanghai has stopped the spread of the coronavirus in the community and fewer than 1 million people remain under strict lockdown, authorities said Monday, as the city moves toward reopening and economic data showed the gloomy impact of China’s “zero-COVID” policy. Vice Mayor Zong Ming said 15 out of Shanghai’s
Continue ReadingBy Laura He, CNN Business China has reported disappointing economic data for the month of April, underscoring the extensive damage Covid lockdowns have wreaked on the country. The world’s second largest economy reported shocking drops in retail sales and factory production, widely missing market expectations. Retail sales plunged 11.1% in April from a year ago,
Continue ReadingNEW YORK (AP) — Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais said “a couple players” won’t make the trip for the three-game series that starts Monday at Toronto because of the Canadian government’s vaccine mandate. Speaking before Sunday’s series finale at the New York Mets, Servais did not identify which players will be unavailable. Canada requires anyone
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