COVID-19 VACCINE

The U.S. on Wednesday authorized updated COVID-19 boosters for children as young as 5

News4JAX ran a statement from Florida’s surgeon general through the Trust Index after Twitter flagged the state Department of Health’s new anti-vaccine guidance as misinformation.

News4JAX ran a statement Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis made through the Trust Index.

U.S. regulators are poised to green-light COVID-19 vaccine shots for the youngest age group yet -- from those 5 years old to those as young as 6 months old.

In a U.S. Senate committee hearing Thursday, the leaders of the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other public health agencies told senators that the country should prepare for what might happen next.

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved children ages 5 to 11 to get a booster dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday authorized another COVID-19 booster for people age 50 and older.

Moderna has now joined Pfizer in asking the Food and Drug Administration to approve a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine.

Pfizer’s CEO says a fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot will be needed.

More COVID-19 vaccination clinics will be held through Duval County Public Schools’ partnership with the Florida Department of Health in Duval County and Health Hero Florida, the school district said.

COVID-19 vaccines for kids under 5 may be available in the U.S. as early as March, but there are several hurdles still to clear.

We’re putting two claims through the News4JAX Trust Index — both related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The White House says America has made significant progress on COVID-19 boosters and vaccines in recent weeks, but COVID-19 cases are on the rise as scientists try to learn more about the omicron variant.

Tuesday marks a year since the former CEO of UF Health Jacksonville, the late Dr. Leon Haley Jr., rolled up his sleeve and got the first COVID-19 vaccine in the city.

A major milestone in the pandemic: It’s been one year since Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was approved.

Monday is the Navy and Marine Corps’ deadline for service members to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.

The state of Florida has been dealt an initial blow in its battle to block a federal rule requiring health care workers to get vaccinated.

The White House says about 10% of eligible children ages 5 to 11 have received a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine since its approval for their age group two weeks ago.

Duval County Public Schools is partnering with the Florida Department of Health in Duval County to hold a day of vaccination events for children age 5 and older on Friday.

As more locations offer COVID-19 booster shots, children ages 5 to 11 can get vaccinated in Florida starting Friday.

Three clinics in the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Coastal Health District, including one in Glynn County, on Monday, Nov. 8, will begin offering pediatric doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to children ages to 11.

The city of Jacksonville, in partnership with Agape Family Health and the Florida Department of Health in Duval County, on Thursday announced additional COVID-19 vaccination services at four city-funded locations.

Any day now, the Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11.

Some 28 million children ages 5 to 11 in the United States may soon be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine, and plans are underway to help them get it.

Moderna says its low-dose COVID-19 vaccine is safe and appears to work in 6- to 11-year-olds.

Ninety-nine million more Americans are now eligible for COVID-19 booster shots, but there are still a few questions.

President Joe Biden spoke out against misinformation surrounding COVID-19 vaccination mandates, encouraging the approximately 66 million unvaccinated Americans to get a shot.

A panel of U.S. health advisers has endorsed booster shots for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine.

COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are declining, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that those numbers should go down over the next four weeks if vaccination rates continue at the pace they are right now.

Here’s a look at the timeline the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released Friday.

Pfizer has submitted its clinical trial data to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on the effectiveness of its COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 5 to 11 as it moves closer to seeking approval for expanded use of the shots.

Getting both the flu shot and the COVID-19 vaccine is safe, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Johnson & Johnson announced Tuesday that a booster of its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine provides a stronger immune response months after people receive a first dose.

Pfizer said Monday its COVID-19 vaccine works for children ages 5 to 11.

The debate over COVID-19 vaccinations continues.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is hopeful that younger children will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by the end of the year.

President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered sweeping new federal vaccine requirements for as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to increase COVID-19 vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant.

Now there is even more evidence that shows COVID-19 vaccination during pregnancy is safe.

Companies across the U.S. are requiring employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

White House Senior Policy Advisor for COVID-19 Equity Dr. Cameron Webb was in Jacksonville on Tuesday to encourage more people to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

JEA on Thursday will host its second COVID-19 vaccination clinic outside its downtown headquarters.

There’s a call to not only mandate the vaccine among first responders but to protect them.

Publix, CVS and Walgreens are offering a third COVID-19 vaccine shot for certain immunocompromised people.

U.S. health authorities are expected to recommend an extra COVID-19 vaccine dose for Americans eight months after they get their second shot.

Impact Church on Sunday hosted a free public COVID-19 vaccination clinic.

Clinical trials are underway in Jacksonville for a third COVID-19 vaccine dose.

Baptist Health announced Tuesday it will require its team members and professional staff to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Nov. 15.

As some hospitals are seeing pediatric patients with COVID-19, a Jacksonville infectious disease expert is calling the COVID-19 vaccination rates among children pathetic.

A third COVID-19 shot from one of America’s top vaccine makers ]might boost protection against the delta variant that’s spreading rapidly across the county.

The Florida Department of Health in Duval County will be offering walk-in COVID-19 vaccinations at its Central Health Plaza, starting Tuesday.

According to leaders from Jacksonville’s hospitals, who joined Mayor Lenny Curry on a virtual news conference Wednesday, nearly all of the patients being admitted for coronavirus have not been fully vaccinated.

Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy on Wednesday made another plea for Americans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as the more contagious delta variant becomes the dominant strain.

Jacksonville hospitals are seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases, with the number of patients at some facilities doubling in the last two weeks.

Five new vaccination sites are opening at Duval County schools over the next two weeks.

Five school sites will host COVID-19 vaccination clinics this summer, according to Duval County Public Schools.

Florida’s capital city was the first stop on a nationwide tour by Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris.

UF Health Jacksonville will offer Pfizer COVID-19 shots one day next week.

Biopharmaceutical company Pfizer has administered its first COVID-19 booster shots.

Jacksonville on Sunday surpassed 100,000 confirmed COVID-19 cases as Florida reported more than 10 million people in the state have received at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The Coastal Health District is now scheduling appointments for special Pfizer vaccine clinics at seven health department locations, including in Camden County.

Florida Blue will be providing access to COVID-19 shots on Wednesday in Jacksonville’s LaVilla neighborhood.

Sulzbacher is helping people in underserved communities in Northeast Florida receive COVID-19 vaccinations.

There are two upcoming COVID-19 vaccine clinics scheduled this month in Camden County, according to the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Coastal Health District.

The Hindu Society of Northeast Florida on Sunday hosted a COVID-19 vaccination event.

Florida-based grocer Publix has announced that starting Monday, its pharmacies in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Virginia will begin accepting walk-ins for COVID-19 vaccinations.

A pop-up vaccination event will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday at Deermeadows Baptist Church on Baymeadows Road.

As the number of people getting vaccinated against COVID-19 declines, it appears some parents are also hesitant to get their children vaccinated if it’s authorized.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday talked about the declining number of Floridians getting vaccinated against COVID-19.

The Florida Department of Health in Nassau County is now offering walk-in COVID-19 vaccinations on Wednesdays, according to Nassau County Emergency Management.

The federally-supported COVID-19 vaccination site at Gateway Mall will stop giving first doses of the Pfizer vaccine to those 16 and up after Tuesday.

A one-day Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine event was held Sunday at the Webb Wesconnett Library on 103rd Street on Jacksonville’s Westside.

The health departments of the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Coastal Health District, which includes Camden and Glynn counties, are now offering COVID-19 vaccinations without appointments during specific times.

The Jacksonville Center for Clinical Research, which helped Pfizer and Moderna conduct trials for their COVID-19 vaccines for adults and older teenagers, is now shifting its attention toward children under the age of 16.

A mobile COVID-19 vaccination event was held Sunday at a church in Jacksonville’s Englewood neighborhood.

The federally-supported COVID-19 vaccination site at Gateway Mall on Sunday resumed the use of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

The federally-supported COVID-19 vaccination site at Gateway Mall closed early Saturday evening because of severe storms moving into the area.

The federally-supported COVID-19 vaccination site at Gateway Mall on Tuesday began administering first doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

Now that everyone 16 and older can get the COVID-19 vaccine, there is a new push by the federal government to get people to roll up their sleeves.

Half of all adults in the U.S. have now received at least one COVID-19 shot.

Two days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration recommended a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, public health officials in Florida were still trying to figure out how to make up for the doses they can no longer administer daily.

The pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccinations will continue after U.S. health advisers told the government Wednesday that they need more evidence to decide if a handful of unusual blood clots were linked to the shot -- and if so, how big the potential risk really is.

Florida recorded more new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday than the state has in weeks as health officials hope to see vaccinations prevent another surge of the virus.

The U.S. on Tuesday recommended a pause in using the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to investigate unusual blood clots that occurred in six women 6 to 13 days after vaccination. Cardiologist Dr. Michael Koren, director of the Jacksonville Center for Clinical Research, has been studying this closely.

Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida is temporarily suspending Johnson & Johnson vaccinations because a half-dozen people developed blood clots after getting the shot.

The FDA commissioner said Tuesday she expected the pause in using the Johnson & Johnson vaccine to investigate reports of blood clots to last "a matter of days."

Lutheran Social Services was planning was setting up to host its second mobile vaccination event Tuesday morning at its location on Philips Highway when it got the word that distributing Johnson & Johnson vaccinations was put on hold.

There’s a good chance you’ll have to get the COVID-19 vaccine every year, according to a local doctor.

The federally-supported COVID-19 vaccination site at Gateway Mall closed around 12:30 p.m. Sunday for the rest of the day due to weather conditions.

All federally supported COVID-19 vaccination sites in the Jacksonville area will close at 3 p.m. Saturday due to the threat of severe weather.

Nearly 33,000 Florida inmates say they want a COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Florida Department of Health. Public health officials say they intend to offer the vaccine to state prisoners within the next two weeks.

On Friday, there will be two pop-up clinics in Duval County where residents can get the COVID-19 vaccine without an appointment.

The Georgia Department of Public Health’s Coastal Health District will provide the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine at vaccination events this month in Liberty and Camden counties.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has received a single-dose coronavirus vaccine.

After an outbreak that infected hundreds and the deaths of three inmates, more than two dozen people incarcerated at the Jacksonville Pre-Trial Detention Facility have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

One day after opening COVID-19 shots to Floridians age 16 and older, Northeast Florida’s federally-supported vaccination site made a big change that had been in the works.

The same technology used to help Pfizer and Moderna develop their COVID-19 vaccines could prevent fatal heart attacks, according to doctors at the Jacksonville Center for Clinical Research.

The Food and Drug Administration has compiled data about side effects reported among those who have received one of the three COVID-19 vaccines approved in the United States.

The federally-supported COVID-19 vaccination site at Gateway Mall was set to close early on Sunday in observance of the Easter holiday, but officials later announced the site will stay open until 7 p.m.

Easter was the first major holiday with COVID-19 shots available to many people.