The Food and Drug administration has approved a new COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna but with limits on who can use it.

A combination shot for flu and COVID-19 using messenger RNA generated antibodies in a company-funded study.

The U.S. government will pay the vaccine maker Moderna $176 million to develop a pandemic vaccine that could be used to treat bird flu in people as cases in dairy cows continue to mount across the country.

Asian shares have churned higher after the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to another record high.

Americans can now get an updated COVID-19 vaccine.

The next round of COVID-19 vaccines will target one of the latest versions of the coronavirus.

Moderna’s CEO is defending a plan to more than quadruple the company’s COVID-19 vaccine price.

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending an additional COVID-19 booster shot that targets the Omicron variant.

The number of new coronavirus cases and deaths reported globally continued to fall nearly everywhere in the world in what the World Health Organization described as a “welcome decline” at a media briefing on Wednesday.

U.S. regulators have authorized updated COVID-19 boosters, the first to directly target today's most common omicron strain.

COVID-19 vaccines tweaked to better match today’s omicron threat are expected to roll out in a few weeks but how much will they help.

The trials began Thursday and are expected to finish within the next few days.

New coronavirus cases reported globally in the last week dropped by nearly a quarter while deaths fell by 6%.

British drug regulators have become the first in the world to authorize an updated version of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine that includes protection against the omicron variant, which the government said would now be offered to people aged 50 and over in the fall.

A court ruling is back in effect that blocks President Joe Biden from requiring federal employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Pfizer says tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and boosts protection.

The White House COVID-19 response team is urging parents to get their young children vaccinated as the country begins to rollout vaccines to the youngest population.

Will you be vaccinating your child?

The nation’s youngest children are getting their chance at vaccines for COVID-19.

U.S. health officials have opened COVID-19 vaccines for infants, toddlers and preschoolers — the last group without the shots.

U.S. regulators have authorized the first COVID-19 shots for infants and preschoolers.

A government advisory panel has endorsed a second brand of COVID-19 vaccine for school-age children and teens.

Next week brings a marathon of hearings as the U.S. decides whether to open COVID-19 vaccinations to kids under 5.

Now that an FDA advisory committee has recommended the Novavax COVID-19 vaccination for emergency use, experts say we could possibly see the FDA give full approval of the vaccine soon.

Moderna says its experimental COVID-19 vaccine that combines its original shot with protection against the omicron variant appears to work.

Parents hoping to get their youngest children vaccinated against COVID-19 have some encouraging news.

U.S. regulators are strictly limiting who can receive Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine due to a rare but serious risk of blood clots.

Pfizer now hopes to tell U.S. regulators how well its COVID-19 vaccine works in the littlest kids by early June.

The Food and Drug Administration has set tentative dates in June to publicly review COVID-19 vaccines for the youngest American children.

Moderna is asking U.S. regulators to open its COVID-19 vaccine to the nation's youngest children.

Moderna is asking U.S. regulators to open its COVID-19 vaccine to the nation's youngest children.

Many Americans can now get a second COVID-19 booster, but it’s hard to tell who really needs another shot right now and who could wait.

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

Americans age 50 and older can get a second COVID-19 booster if it’s been at least four months since their last vaccination.

Moderna says it will ask regulators to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for children under 6 but several hurdles need to be cleared before the shots could become available.

Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine works in babies, toddlers and preschoolers.

Drugmaker Moderna has asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize a fourth shot of its COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for all adults.

The World Health Organization is creating a global training center to help poorer countries make vaccines, antibodies and cancer treatments using the messenger RNA technology used to make COVID-19 vaccines.

Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia will be the first African countries to receive the technology required to produce mRNA vaccines on the continent.

Tokyo has launched a mass inoculation drive for COVID-19 booster shots at a temporary center operated by the military as Japan tries to speed up delayed third jabs to counter surging infections.

Moderna has begun testing an omicron-specific version of its COVID-19 vaccine in healthy adults.

Haiti's health minister says the country is fighting a rise in COVID-19 cases as the government struggles to convince people to get vaccinated.

U.S. officials are loosening rules that call on health care workers to stay out of work for 10 days if they test positive for COVID-19.

As Americans get ready for the holidays, COVID-19 cases are surging in parts of the United States.

Moderna said Monday that a booster dose of its COVID-19 vaccine should offer protection against the rapidly spreading omicron variant.

U.S. health officials say most Americans should get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines instead of the Johnson & Johnson shot.

Vaccine makers are racing to update their COVID-19 shots against omicron even before it’s clear a change is needed, just in case.

New York City instituted a new mask mandate Tuesday as the stock market was down over renewed COVID fears.

Asian shares are mixed as investors continue to cautiously weigh how much damage the new omicron coronavirus variant may unleash on the global economy.

The U.S. is opening COVID-19 vaccine boosters to all adults, and urging them for anyone 50 and older.

The NBA has told its players, coaches and referees that they should receive booster shots against the coronavirus, with particular urgency for those who received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

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.

Moderna is scaling back expectations for the number of COVID-19 vaccine deliveries it expects to make this year and the revenue it will record from them.

Moderna says it will make up to 110 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine available to African countries.

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

Georgia officials say local health departments will begin offering more COVID-19 vaccine booster shots on Tuesday, following guidance from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A team of young scientists in South Africa is assembling the equipment needed to reverse engineer Moderna's coronavirus vaccine.

Millions more Americans are now eligible for COVID-19 boosters, and they can get a different vaccine than their first shots.

Federal health officials say millions more Americans can get a COVID-19 booster and choose a different vaccine for that next shot.

U.S. regulators are extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

Federal regulators are expected to authorize the mixing and matching of COVID-19 booster shots this week.

COVID-19 booster shots are an extra dose of the original vaccine, and some experts wonder why they weren't updated to better match the delta variant.

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

With many Americans who got Pfizer vaccinations already rolling up their sleeves for a booster shot, millions of others who received the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine wait anxiously to learn when it’s their turn.

The chairman of Moderna says the company has no plans to share the recipe for its COVID-19 vaccine because executives have concluded that scaling up their own production is the best way to increase the global supply.

The United Nations chief says the pandemic has forced more than 100 million people into poverty and left over 4 billion people with little or no social support, health care or income protection.

The European Union’s drug regulator has given its backing to booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people 18 and older.

In a story published September 27, 2021, about vaccine mandates for health care workers, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Dr. Jeff Smith was the CEO of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Millions of Americans are now eligible to receive a Pfizer booster shot to help increase their protection against the worst effects of the coronavirus.

A new study shows that the Moderna vaccine is more effective at keeping people out of the hospital with COVID-19 than Johnson and Johnson and Pfizer vaccines.

Vietnam is speeding up its vaccination program in an effort to loosen coronavirus lockdown restrictions in major cities by the end of the month.

Africa’s already thin supply of COVID-19 vaccines has taken another significant hit.

COVID-19 booster shots may be coming for at least some Americans but there's still important science to be worked out about who really needs them and when.

A new COVID-19 variant is on the horizon -- the World Health Organization is closely monitoring the newest variant called Mu.

The Africa director of the World Health Organization says the continent was able to triple its COVID-19 vaccination rate over the past week, helped by growing numbers of donations of doses from developed countries.

Japan is suspending use of about 1.63 million doses of Moderna vaccine after contamination was found in some unused vials.

Asian shares are gaining, boosted by a near-record rise on Wall Street.

The U.S. has given full approval to the COVID-19 vaccine made by Pfizer.

The U.S. is planning booster doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines, but if you got the one-dose Johnson & Johnson shot instead, stay tuned.

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

Sunday’s clinic on West Beaver Street was hosted by the Florida Black Expo as a push to get African Americans and low-income residents vaccinated.

Public forums before local school boards and city councils are the latest source of misinformation about COVID-19.

Americans at high risk from COVID-19 because of severely weakened immune systems are now allowed to get a third vaccination in hopes of better protection, a policy change endorsed Friday by influential government advisers.

Americans at high risk from COVID-19 because of severely weakened immune systems are now allowed to get a third vaccination in hopes of better protection.

A COVID-19 vaccine “breakthrough” case is when a vaccinated person gets infected with the coronavirus.

More than 11 million Floridians have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine since the shots arrived in the state six months ago.

A top official at the European Medicines Agency says a decision on whether to recommend that Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine be authorized for children is expected late next week.

As many Asian countries battle their worst surge of COVID-19 infections, the slow flow of vaccine doses from around the world is finally picking up speed, giving hope that inoculation rates can increase and help blunt the effect of the rapidly spreading delta variant.

The top health official in Australia's Queensland state is advising adults under age 40 not to take the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine because of the risk of a rare blood clotting disorder, even though the Australian government is making those shots available to all adults.

Moderna President Dr. Stephen Hoge says his company is working on developing COVID-19 vaccine booster shots while also trying to harness the genetic code technology it helped pioneer to fight other diseases.

UF Health Jacksonville will begin giving children under the age of 2 years old Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, as part of the company’s clinical trials, according to Pediatric Epidemiologist Dr. Mobeen Rathore.

How soon vaccines expire is a critical question as the Biden administration prepares to send tens of millions of unused COVID-19 doses abroad to help curb the pandemic.

The world’s leading COVID-19 vaccines may offer lasting protection that diminishes the need for frequent booster shots.

Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine strongly protects kids as young as 12.

The CDC is putting out a warning about possible heart issues arising in vaccinated teenagers. The number of cases at this point was described as relatively few by the CDC’s advisory group on immunization practices.

About five months after shots began, more than 10 million people in Florida have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, according to a report released Sunday by the state Department of Health.

Japan has approved the use of two new vaccines _ Moderna and AstraZeneca _ hours ahead of an expansion of a state of coronavirus emergency that will cover roughly 40% of the population.

Britain has sent public health officials, backed by the army, to distribute coronavirus tests door-to-door in two northern England towns to contain a fast-spreading variant that threatens the country's lockdown-easing plans.

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.

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