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The FDA finally made good on boosters for all adults after two months of delay. Spencer Kimball has those details. Meg Tirrell has an update on the latest Covid drug developments, and Holly Ellyatt in the U.K. tells us Europe is struggling with a new surge in cases, thanks to the highly contagious delta variant.
Berkeley Lovelace has moved to our sister site at NBC. Congrats Berkeley! I'll be keeping the newsletter warm in the coming months while we search high and low for a replacement. (Please send suggestions my way.) We will be off next week like most of you to celebrate a vaxxed, but hopefully not masked, Thanksgiving.
| | FDA authorizes Pfizer and Moderna vaccine booster shots for all Americans ages 18 and older | The FDA authorized booster shots of Pfizer and BioNTech's Covid vaccine as well as Moderna's for everyone 18 and older in the U.S. on Friday, belatedly fulfilling a critical part of the Biden administration's plan to administer extra doses to the general. The approval comes about two months late — after scientists advising the FDA rejected the administration's original plans to start distributing boosters to all adults the week of Sept. 20, citing a lack of data supporting the third doses. But Pfizer and Moderna both presented more data in the last week or so; boosters could be ready for all adults starting this weekend.
-Spencer Kimball | | | | The U.S. is building its arsenal of Covid drugs heading into the winter | Even as the vaccine booster push is on, the U.S. government has struck almost $10 billion in supply agreements for Covid medicines this month alone. They include purchases of both antibody drugs from Eli Lilly and Vir Biotechnology and partner GlaxoSmithKline, as well as antiviral pills – not yet cleared by the FDA – from Merck and Pfizer. The purchases come as cases have started to rise again heading into the holidays and colder weather.
-Meg Tirrell | | | | A new Covid wave engulfs Europe | The latest wave of Covid cases is hitting Europe with a vengeance with a number of countries seeing record numbers of daily infections and some countries imposing partial lockdowns and placing more restrictions on unvaccinated people. Germany shattered a new record on Thursday, reporting more than 65,000 new cases, with health officials warning that the true number of cases could be two or three times as many. Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo is keen to avoid another lockdown, however, he admitted: "pressure is mounting in our hospitals so we have to be prudent."
-Holly Ellyatt | | | | Dr. Fauci says U.S. Covid cases need to fall below 10,000 a day to get to a 'degree of normality' | Covid cases in the U.S. need to fall "well below 10,000" per day for the country to achieve some semblance of "normality," White House chief medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said at the 2021 STAT Summit this week. To fully wrest control over the virus, they will likely need to be even lower, around 3,300, he said. U.S. cases, meanwhile, are climbing and averaged almost 87,000 over the last week as of Wednesday.
-Robert Towey | | | | Having health equity skin in the game | This week the American Medical Association pushed for greater inclusiveness in dermatology training. In the new Top Derm training game from medical video maker LevelEx, showing skin conditions in multiple skin shades is a central feature of the training program.
-Bertha Coombs | |
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