FDA expected to authorize third vaccine dose for some immunocompromised Americans
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The FDA is planning to amend the emergency use authorization orders for the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines to allow a third dose for certain immunocompromised people who may not have had adequate protection from just two doses, a source confirmed to CBS News on Wednesday.
News of the move comes as the CDC's independent panel of vaccine advisers is scheduled to meet Friday morning to discuss "additional doses in immunocompromised individuals." Technically, vaccine providers cannot administer additional doses to any Americans under the CDC's current agreement governing the shots — even if the FDA amends its emergency use authorization — until the agency's advisers formally recommend the move.Billions of cicadas are emerging across about 16 states in the Southeast and Midwest. Periodical cicadas used to reliably emerge every 13 or 17 years, depending on their brood. But in a warming world where spring conditions arrive sooner, climate change is messing with the bugs' internal alarm clocks.
Senate Democrats to unveil package to protect IVF as party makes reproductive rights push this month
Washington — A group of Senate Democrats is set to unveil a new package to protect access to IVF on Monday, as the party makes a push around reproductive rights this month — two years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.