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Federal health officials this week called on private employers to adopt vaccine mandates after the FDA granted full approval to Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine. Delta Air Lines is hitting unvaccinated employees with a controversial surcharge. Details below. Separately, Covid hospitalizations among kids are now reaching record levels.
| | FDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech Covid vaccine, while J&J gets in the booster game | President Biden called on the private sector to implement more vaccine mandates after the FDA gave full approval to Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine. Moderna should soon follow; it said this week it finished submitting its application for full approval to the FDA. On the booster front, Johnson & Johnson said another dose of its vaccine given six months after the first lifted spike-binding antibody levels by nine-fold. More data will be required before regulators would clear a J&J booster, but it's the first information the company's provided on its potential booster. It's expected to be followed shortly by much-anticipated results from J&J's trial of a two-shot regimen.
-Meg Tirrell | | | | Health officials up the pressure on private employers to mandate vaccines | White House Covid officials called for private employers to mandate vaccines at a briefing Tuesday, s day after the FDA blessed Pfizer's vaccine with a full biologics license. Many companies have responded to this summer's surge in Covid cases by rolling out vaccine requirements for all or part of their U.S. staff, including Google, Facebook and United Airlines, while others are hesitant to impose mandates that might scare away their vaccine-hesitant staff.
-Bob Towey | | | | Delta Air Lines is raising health insurance premiums for unvaccinated employees | Delta Air Lines isn't mandating vaccines, but it is hitting unvaccinated workers with a $200 a month insurance surcharge starting Nov. 1. CEO Ed Bastian said Covid hospitalizations are costing the company, which is self-insured, $50,000 per employee – and every single employee who's been hospitalized has been unvaccinated.
-Leslie Josephs | | | | Hospitalizations among kids surge to highest on record in U.S. | New Covid-19 hospital admissions for kids have reached their highest levels since the U.S. started tracking pediatric cases about a year ago, peaking at an average of 303 new admissions per day over the week ended Aug. 22, CDC data shows. Doctors are warning it could get worse as schools begin to reopen and the fast-moving delta variant drives infections higher.
-Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Nate Rattner | | | | Japan suspends 1.6 million Moderna doses over contamination concerns | Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare suspended the use of more than 1.6 million doses of Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine following reports of contaminated vials at multiple vaccination sites there. Takeda Pharmaceuticals, which distributes the vaccine in Japan for Moderna, said it notified the ministry after several vaccination sites reported an unspecified foreign object found in one specific lot. Moderna said there is still no "expected time frame for completion" of the investigation.
-Rich Mendez | |
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