Nearly 6 million Americans have taken Paxlovid for free, courtesy of the federal government. The Pfizer pill has helped prevent many people infected with COVID-19 from being hospitalized or dying, and it may even reduce the risk of developing long COVID. But the government plans to stop footing the bill within months, and millions of people who are at the highest risk of severe illness and are .
PHILADELPHIA â For years, scientists have tried, and failed, to make a one-and-done vaccine that would provide at least partial protection against all types of the flu. A University of Pennsylvania scientist now thinks he has cracked the case, using the same technology that was the basis for the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines: messenger RNA. In November, Scott Hensley and his colleagues .
More than half of all Florida counties have confirmed or suspected cases of the extremely infectious the untreatable Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza this year. The epicenter of the outbreak initially emerged along Florida’s Atlantic Coast in early February, and has since spread as far north as Okaloosa and as far south as Miami-Dade.