population, the UK has now turned its focus to the upcoming booster programme which is scheduled to begin

It’s not yet clear if or when teens younger than 16 might need a third Pfizer dose. Vaccinations for children as young as 5 just began last month, using special low-dose Pfizer shots.... Researchers from children’s hospitals around the country checked medical records and found the rare side effect usually is mild and people recover quickly.... The research was published Monday in the journal Circulation. ———The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hug

The panel also recommended that people with weakened immune systems should be offered an additional coronavirus vaccine dose no matter what WHO-backed vaccine they used. But the blanket recommendation of third doses for those over 60 receiving Chinese vaccines could well have a larger impact.... Almost 1 in 5 among China’s 1.4 billion population is over 60.... " But it’s also very important for the global community to understand where … the supply and demand for vaccines is moving to.”....

The agency said this especially fragile group also can get an additional booster, a fifth shot. The

BERLIN( Reuters)-Germany's new government passed a supplementary budget on Monday to supercharge its climate and transformation fund with a debt-financed injection of 60 billion euros to allow more investments in the shift towards a green economy, officials said. The supplementary budget, passed unanimously by Chancellor Olaf Scholz's cabinet, will channel 60 billion euros of unused debt in this year's federal budget into the government's climate and transformation fund for future spending. The

Biden received the shot days after the Food and Drug Administration cleared a booster developed by

boosters, rather than ones targeted to specific groups. Then, in an 18-0 vote, it endorsed extra shots for

extra dose and when are up to individual governments. While most countries are already giving boosters

Here’s where they’ve been approved. Berkley said Covax was not distributing boosters or extra doses

More than three million booster and third doses of Covid-19 vaccine have been delivered across the