The request is broader than rival pharmaceutical company Pfizer’s request earlier this week for the regulator to approve a booster shot for all seniors.
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The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control must approve the request.
The requirement had been set to expire on March 18, but was extended by a month to allow the public health agency time to develop new, more targeted policies.
The last statewide mask mandate in the U.S. will be lifted by the end of March, Hawaii Gov. David Ige announced Tuesday.
The official global death toll from COVID-19 is on the verge of eclipsing 6 million — underscoring that the pandemic, now entering its third year, is far from over.
Los Angeles County is set to lift its indoor mask mandate this week as coronavirus case rates and hospitalizations plummet, the county’s top health official said Tuesday.
The Biden administration will significantly loosen federal mask-wearing guidelines to protect against COVID-19 transmission on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter.
A national organizer for the convoy said the demonstration’s goals are freedom, liberty, accountability and an end to a national emergency declaration for COVID-19.
The palace said the queen, who has been fully vaccinated and had a booster shot, would continue with “light” duties at Windsor Castle over the coming week.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom said the approach means maintaining a wary watchfulness attuned to warning signs of the next deadly new surge or variant.
The state’s most populous county is still seeing high transmission of the omicron variant even as the test positivity rate, case numbers and hospitalizations drop.
California will lift its indoor masking requirement for vaccinated people next week but masks still are the rule for schoolchildren, state health officials announced Monday.
In an extraordinary move, the Food and Drug Administration had urged Pfizer and its partner BioNTech to apply earlier than the companies had planned.
The decision was bolstered by real-world evidence from the more than 200 million doses administered in the U.S. since the FDA cleared the shot in December 2020.
The Biden administration has officially withdrawn a rule that would have required workers at big companies to get vaccinated or face regular COVID testing requirements.
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