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

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.

The American Academy of Pediatrics and the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, among other medical groups, joined the lawsuit against Kennedy.

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.

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Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech asked London's Court of Appeal on Thursday to overturn a ruling that their COVID-19 vaccine infringed one of Moderna's patents, in the latest round of a long-running legal dispute between the two sides.