The Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize new COVID-19 booster shots this week without a staple of its normal decision-making process: data from a study showing whether the shots were safe and worked in humans. The shots, modified to target the latest versions of the omicron variant, won’t have finished testing in humans when the FDA … Read more
More than two years of COVID-19, and people are thinking about the virus differently. This month the US declared monkeypox a public health emergency, and people at high risk of getting the virus — especially those who have sex with men — are lined up city streets to get vaccinated. An avian flu outbreak that … Read more
Gay and bisexual men in the US are hitting walls to find a monkeypox vaccine because of limited supplies, with some activists criticizing the government as being too slow to increase its vaccine stockpiles. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while the US awaits about 800,000 vaccine doses in Denmark, the number … Read more