Worried that President Joe Biden's COVID vaccine mandate for private companies could cause a mass exodus of employees, business groups are pleading with the White House to delay the rule until after the holiday season.
The CDC is "very carefully" watching a mutated form of the coronavirus called "delta plus," the agency's director said Sunday, as cases of the delta subvariant continue to rise in the United Kingdom.
A third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech was found in a large study to be highly protective against symptomatic COVID-19, the companies said Thursday.
Advisers to the CDC are meeting Thursday to vote on recommendations about mixing and matching booster doses of all three coronavirus vaccines authorized in the United States.
LONDON — A newly-discovered mutation of the delta variant is being investigated in the U.K. amid worries that it could make the virus even more transmissible and undermine COVID-19 vaccines further.
Several employees at the largest hospital system in Massachusetts say in a lawsuit that they were subjected to discrimination and retaliation in violation of federal law when their requests for medical or religious exemptions from the organization's COVID-19 vaccine mandate were denied.