Coronavirus

(CNN) — Drugmaker Pfizer said Friday its experimental pill designed to fight coronavirus reduced the risk of hospitalization and death for high-risk patients taking part in a trial of the drug. The company hopes it can eventually offer the pill, given in combination with an older antiviral drug called ritonavir, to people to take at […]

(CNN) — The Biden administration announced Thursday that its vaccine rules applying to private businesses with 100 or more employees, certain health care workers, and federal contractors will take effect on January 4. The rules stipulate that employees that fall into those groups will need to have received the necessary shots to be fully vaccinated, either two doses of Pfizer […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Less than 24 hours after final approval of the COVID vaccine for 5-to-11-year-olds, Indiana is administering the first doses. Hamilton County began vaccinating younger children at the county fairgrounds at 3 p.m., followed an hour later by the Indiana Department of Health’s outdoor clinic across the street from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Indiana […]

INDIANAPOLIS — The Marion County Public Health Department plans to begin offering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to children ages five to 11 as early as Thursday, Nov. 4. Doses of the vaccine will be available at District Health Office vaccine clinics and at the ACTION Health Center. Walk-ins are welcome, and those older than age 11 […]

(CNN) — US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said Tuesday evening she was endorsing a recommendation to vaccinate children ages 5-11 against Covid-19, clearing the way for immediate vaccination of the youngest age group yet in the United States. “CDC now expands vaccine recommendations to about 28 million children in […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Most of the back-and-forth over President Biden’s looming vaccine mandate on businesses has focused on vaccinations. The Indiana Chamber is raising concerns about the other half of the order. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration is finalizing the regulation, which Biden has said will require workers at large businesses to get tested for […]

(CNN) — Millions of child-size doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine are being shipped from the company’s facilities to distribution centers across the country — ready to go out to pharmacies and pediatricians’ offices, the Biden administration said Monday. They’re just waiting for the OK from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose independent […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – The COVID vaccine isn’t available for kids under 12 yet. That could change as early as Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration approved the vaccine last week for kids as young as five, but the final step for any vaccine is approval by the Centers for Disease Control’s Committee on Immunization Practices. That […]

(INDIANAPOLIS) – Indiana’s health emergency was extended another month over the weekend — but for the first time, the state is actively looking at whether it’s time to end it. Governor Holcomb has asked agency heads to report back on whether and how to end the state of emergency when the latest extension runs out […]

(CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration issued emergency use authorization on Friday for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11. This is the first Covid-19 vaccine authorized in the United States for younger children. On Tuesday, the FDA’s vaccine advisers voted 17-0, with one abstention, to recommend EUA for the vaccine, which is formulated […]