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FDA advisers support approval of RSV vaccine to protect infants

The first vaccine to protect infants from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, moved a step toward approval by the Food and Drug Administration with positive votes Thursday from a panel of experts.Kateryna Kon/Getty Images/Science Photo Library Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the agency should approve the first vaccine to protect infants from RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus.

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F.D.A. Panel Recommends R.S.V. Vaccine to Protect Young Infants

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration voted on Thursday in favor of approving a vaccine by Pfizer to prevent the severe respiratory virus that is a potentially deadly threat to infants.The vaccine would be the first to protect babies from respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., which is the reason many infants are admitted to children's hospitals each year and kills several hundred under 5 each year.

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R.S.V. Vaccine Approved for Older Adults

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved GSK's vaccine for the respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., for adults who are 60 and older, the company said.The vaccine, to be sold as Arexvy, appears to be the first in the world approved for sale to protect older adults.Image An transmission electron microscopic image of R.S.V.Credit...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The F.D.A. estimates that R.S.V. is associated with 6,000 to 10,000 deaths each year in adults 65 and older and at least 60,000 hospitalizations in that age group.

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Rare neurological condition is important potential risk' of Pfizer's RSV vaccine, FDA says

Two people who received Pfizer's respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine during a clinical trial were later diagnosed with Guillain-Barre syndrome, and the US Food and Drug Administration has asked Pfizer to conduct a safety study if the shot is approved, according to agency documents released Friday.

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FDA advisers vote in favor of approval for RSV vaccines for older adults

Over the course of a two-day meeting, vaccine advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration voted in favor of approval for RSV vaccines for adults over the age of 60.The vaccine candidates, made by Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline, could become the world's first approved vaccines against the common virus.

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F.D.A. Panel Recommends 2 R.S.V. Vaccines for Older Adults

After hours of deliberation over safety concerns, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Wednesday recommended approval of a second vaccine for the respiratory syncytial virus in older adults, advancing the first shots against an illness that can be deadly for the very young and the very old.

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Nurse given months to live after doctors blamed cervical cancer signs on Covid jab'

A nurse manager who has been given just months to live says bungling medics dismissed her cancer symptoms as side-effects of having the Covid jab.Katie Pritchard, 37, is having to crowdfund 200,000 for private treatment after she was twice misdiagnosed before finding out she had cervical cancer.The mother-of-two went to her GP after finding a lump but was told there was nothing to worry about and her symptoms may have been down to the Pfizer vaccine.

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Public health

Chinese flock to Hong Kong to get private Covid booster shots

Private services offering Chinese travellers access to mRNA vaccines are attracting droves of mainlanders to Hong Kong and Macau seeking a booster shot that their government has refused to approve.As part of its dismantling of the country's zero-Covid policy last month, China's government also lifted quarantine and other border restrictions.

Washington Post

Coronavirus

WHO "very concerned" about reports of severe COVID in China

A patient is turned away from the emergency room due to full capacity at the Baoding No. 2 Central Hospital in Zhuozhou city in northern China's Hebei province on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022.China only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, a Chinese health official said, in a narrow definition that limits the number of deaths reported, as an outbreak of the virus surges following the easing of pandemic-related restrictions.

Slate Magazine

Public health

Zero COVID Won't Work. Here's the Strategy China Needs to Embrace.

The other week in China's Xinjiang, a fire flared up and killed 10 people in an apartment building.Questions over the need for an ongoing lockdown transformed into a full-on protest.People demanded that the government end the zero-COVID policy.It's not just that it's hard to live in continual lockdown.

The Local Europe

Coronavirus

Austria to start administering new adapted Covid vaccines

Omicron-adapted vaccines are coming to Austria.Photo by Steven Cornfield on Unsplash

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Public health

Texas to receive updated COVID-19 boosters next week

The updated vaccine is designed to protect against the original COVID-19 strain and the omicron variant.

Washington Post

Public health

BioNTech-Pfizer COVID vaccine sent to China for Germans

BERLIN - Germany has dispatched a batch of the BioNTech-Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to China, where it will be administered to Germans who live in the country.Chancellor Olaf Scholz's spokesman, Steffen Hebestreit, said the vaccines were sent on a flight that was due to land in China on Wednesday.He said that the Chinese government formally informed Berlin in a diplomatic note that German citizens can be inoculated with the vaccine, which otherwise isn't cleared for use in China.

www.independent.co.uk

UK news

Tory MP urged to apologise and correct record on dangerous' Covid vaccine claim

A Conservative MP has been urged to apologise and correct the record after claiming mRNA Covid vaccines are not recommended for pregnant women or those who are breastfeeding.This week the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) authorised the vaccine, made by Pfizer and BioNTech using mRNA technology, for children aged six months to four years.

New York Daily News

Public health

CDC panel approves Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines for little kids

Vaccinate and celebrate.

A Centers for Disease Control advisory panel approved COVID vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna for children age 5 and under.

The panel unanimously approved both vaccines Saturday.

New York Daily News

Public health

FDA panel approves Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccines for toddlers

A vax for tots is on the way.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel approved Moderna and Pfizer vaccines for children ages 5 and under on Wednesday.

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Europe politics

Watchdog reprimands EU executive for failing to share Von der Leyen texts

The EU's official watchdog has issued a formal reprimand to the European Commission over its president Ursula von der Leyen's failure to release text messages exchanged with the boss of Pfizer during the pandemic.

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