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EU regulator clears tweaked versions of COVID vaccines
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando The European Medicines Agency has recommended the authorization of two coronavirus vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Inc., tweaked to include protection against an early version of the omicron variant.In a statement on...
China locks down 21 million in Chengdu in COVID-19 outbreak
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando Chinese authorities have locked down Chengdu, a southwestern city of 21 million people, following a spike in COVID-19 cases. Residents have been ordered to stay home, and about 70% of the flights have been suspended to and from the city,...
White House to encourage COVID boosters, flu shot this fall
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot. That’s at the heart of its campaign to sell the newly authorized shot to an American public that has widely rejected...
Surviving a brain-eating amoeba: Florida college student talks about recovery
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando It was a long road to recovery for 22-year-old Sebastian Deleon, who lost most of his motor skills six years ago after suffering a brain-eating amoeba.“For the first couple of years, it was kind of hard. The part that I most remember is...
California won’t expand teen vaccines without parental OK
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando California won't allow teens age 15 and up to be vaccinated against the coronavirus without their parents' consent. State Sen. Scott Wiener, the bill's author, announced Wednesday he won't put the measure up for a vote in the state...
WHO: New COVID cases, deaths keep falling nearly everywhere
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally continued to fall nearly everywhere in the world in what the World Health Organization described as a “welcome decline” at a media briefing on Wednesday.The U.N. health...
Unvaccinated cadets ordered off Coast Guard Academy campus
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando The Coast Guard Academy is disenrolling seven cadets for failing to comply with the military's COVID-19 vaccination mandate, after their requests for religious exemptions were denied and they were ordered to leave campus.The academy in...
US authorizes updated COVID booster shots targeting newest variants
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando The U.S. on Wednesday authorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that target today’s most common omicron strain. Shots could begin within days.The move by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots...
Millions in new COVID lockdown as China keeps strict policy
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando China has placed millions of its citizens under renewed lockdown following fresh outbreaks of COVID-19, authorities reported Tuesday, as the government persists in its hard-line policy on containing the virus.The measures affected about...
Biden administration ending free home COVID tests
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando The federal government is ending its offer to ship free at-home covid tests this coming Friday.The Biden administration first launched the program through the covid.gov website in January.[TRENDING: NASA scrubs Artemis I moon mission |...
Chinese think tank: Virus curbs must change to help economy
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando A Chinese think tank issued a rare public disagreement Monday with the ruling Communist Party’s severe “zero COVID” policy, saying curbs that shut down cities and disrupt trade, travel and industry must change to prevent an “economic...
Pfizer asks EU drug regulator to OK tweaked COVID vaccine
WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando Pfizer and BioNTech have asked the European Medicines Agency to authorize their updated coronavirus booster vaccine that includes the most recent omicron subvariants.In a statement Friday, Pfizer said it is requesting that the EU drug...