The FDA is convening its outside panel of advisers next week to review booster data from both J&J and Moderna. It’s part of a sweeping effort by the Biden administration to boost protection amid the delta variant and potential waning of vaccine strength. government last month authorized booster doses of Pfizer’s vaccine in vulnerable groups.Ī panel of FDA advisers meets next week to consider boosters for both J&J and Moderna vaccines. J&J says it filed data with the Food and Drug Administration on giving a booster dose between two to six months after vaccination. government moves toward shoring up protection in more vaccinated Americans. regulators to allow booster shots of its COVID-19 vaccine as the U.S. WASHINGTON - Johnson & Johnson has asked U.S. She says she got the shot “for the finances of my family.” The 55-year-old had resisted the vaccine because she contracted the coronavirus in November and believed natural immunity would protect her. Roxanne Rizzi, who teaches at an elementary school in Queens, waited until Friday to get her first shot. District Council 37 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which represents some 20,000 city Department of Education employees, says 93% of those workers had provided proof of at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose as of Sunday, up from 68% at the start of September. Vaccination rates rose in every school job category after the mandate was announced. Some 43,000 doses have been administered since the mandate was announced Aug. A similar mandate is set to go into effect in Los Angeles on Oct. The nation’s largest school system is one of the first in the country to require inoculations for all its staffers. Mayor Bill de Blasio says 95% of the city’s roughly 148,000 public school staffers had received at least one vaccine dose as of Monday. NEW YORK - A COVID-19 vaccine requirement for teachers and other staff members has taken effect in New York City’s million-plus-student public school system. According to King County authorities, 12.5 million doses of the J&J vaccine had been administered by July 8, 2021, with 38 people having confirmed cases of the unusual type of blood clot. Blood clots are a very rare complication associated with J&J’s vaccine. The King County woman received her shot on Aug. A spokesperson for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the agency is aware of, and is looking into, additional reported clot deaths since then, including the one in Washington state. Three deaths were reported before federal authorities temporarily halted J&J vaccinations in April. Public Health Seattle & King County said Tuesday the woman was the fourth person in the United States to die from possible blood clotting issues following the J&J vaccine. SEATTLE - Washington state health authorities say a woman in her late 30s has died from a rare blood-clotting syndrome after receiving the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine. Federal data show about half of 16- and 17-year-olds are vaccinated, while 43% of 12- to 15-year-olds are vaccinated two-thirds of adults are vaccinated. Vaccines have been available for children as young as 12 since May, but vaccination rates trail adults. Kids are at lower risk of severe illness or death, but at least 498 have died. have tested positive for the coronavirus, with 20% of all child cases coming since this school year began, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. More than 5.5 million children in the U.S. Soon after schools reopened in August, the rate of coronavirus infections forced dozens of districts to back off in-person learning. District policies on masks, testing and quarantines vary widely. There’s evidence that masks in schools help reduce virus spread, and most Americans support requiring masks for students and teachers. The coronavirus exposures and illnesses at schools and day cares can mean children get sent home, forcing parents to scramble for childcare. The spread of the more infectious delta variant, particularly among people who refuse vaccinations, has caused an increase in infections in children.