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Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY Foreign tourists vaccinated against COVID-19 with a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or World Health Organization will get the green light to enter the United States in November, according to a spokesperson from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Earlier this... read more →

National regulatory authorities have granted emergency use authorizations for twenty-four COVID-19 vaccines. Six of those have been approved for emergency or full use by at least one WHO-recognized stringent regulatory authority (Oxford–AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, Sinopharm-BBIBP, Moderna, Sinovac, and Janssen). For COVID-19 vaccination policy by country, see Vaccination policy § Table. Overview maps. RNA vaccines and DNA vaccines   Pfizer–BioNTech   Moderna   ZyCoV-D Adenovirus... read more →

By David Shepardson  The United States will accept the use by international visitors of COVID-19 vaccines authorized by U.S. regulators or the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said late on Friday. On Sept. 20, the White House announced the United States in November would lift... read more →

The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has issued a public safety alert over an "alarming" increase in fake prescription pills laced with the synthetic opioid fentanyl or the stimulant methamphetamine. "The United States is facing an unprecedented crisis of overdose deaths fueled by illegally manufactured fentanyl and methamphetamine," DEA Administrator... read more →

(Reuters) - The European Union's drug regulator on Friday identified a possible link between rare cases of venous thromboembolism with Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine and recommended the condition be listed as a side-effect of the shot. The European Medicines Agency also recommended that immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), a bleeding disorder... read more →

David Sugerman, MD, MPH    All measles cases in the United States originate from international travel. Your patients are at risk for measles infection if they have not been fully vaccinated. The best way to protect them from this serious disease — and prevent potential measles outbreaks in the US —... read more →

Experts have have shed new light on a variant of COVID-19 discovered in a nursing home in Kentucky, which has infected at least 45 residents and health care staff. The strain has five mutations seen in other variants, plus many unique ones. © CDC/Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images File photo: A transmission electron... read more →

Samantha Lock   A new coronavirus strain has been declared a variant of interest by the World Health Organization (WHO) with mutations that may be resistant to vaccines. © MARVIN RECINOS/Getty Images File photo: An lab technician processes results of COVID-19 tests.Mu, or B.1.621, was first identified in Colombia and cases have... read more →

  CDC recommends that people with moderately to severely compromised immune systems receive an additional dose of mRNA COVID-19 vaccine at least 28 days after a second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Currently, CDC is recommending that moderately to severely immunocompromised people receive an additional dose. This includes people... read more →

(Reuters) - Among fully vaccinated people who never had COVID-19, getting a third dose of an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna would likely increase levels of antibodies, but not antibodies that are better able to neutralize new virus variants, Rockefeller University researchers reported on bioRxiv ahead of peer review.... read more →