The move makes Moderna’s vaccine, called Spikevax, the first COVID shot for kids in the U.S. to be fully approved, rather than used under emergency authorization, STAT News reported. The vaccine can now be given to children ages 6 months through 11 years, but only if they have at least one health issue that increases their COVID risk.

Moderna’s Covid vaccine for children has been given full FDA approval, making it the first such shot for kids in the U.S. that will no longer be administered under an emergency use authorization.

Attorney General Bondi announced she is dismissing charges against Dr. Michael Kirk Moore, a Utah plastic surgeon.

The company expects to make the updated Spikevax available to U.S. patients in time for the 2025-26 respiratory virus season.

A top official at the Food and Drug Administration recently overruled government scientists on the availability of two COVID-19 vaccines.

South Africa’s health ministry has expressed concern about a persistent campaign of Covid-19 vaccine disinformation circulating online, referring to a video that purports to show renowned South African epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim calling vaccines unsafe.

Scientists in Tel Aviv and IIBR have developed an mRNA vaccine. It combats the deadly Yersinia pestis bacterium. This bacterium causes plague. The vaccine showed 100% effectiveness in animal trials. It targets pneumonic plague.

Mat Sinner, the bassist for the popular power metal group Primal Fear, claimed in a recent interview that he had a severe adverse reaction to a COVID vaccine in 2021. Blabbermouth reported that due to Sinner’s health issues, the band was forced to cancel of its shows in 2021 and 2022.