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FDA Advisors Vote to Recommend Moderna Boosters

JOHN WHYTE: Welcome, everyone. You’re watching Coronavirus in Context. I’m Doctor John White, the Chief Medical Officer at WebMD. So who exactly needs boosters and when? When are we actually going to see a vaccine for kids? And should you wait as a parent for a little while once they’re available? And then, what’s the […]

Waning Immunity Is Not a Crisis, Right Now

Vaccines don’t last forever. This is by design: Like many of the microbes they mimic, the contents of the shots stick around only as long as it takes the body to eliminate them, a tenure on the order of days, perhaps a few weeks. What does have staying power, though, is the immunological impression that […]

I got shingles at 29

How he told Fortesa Latifi I was hiking on a mild winter’s day in eastern Tennessee. It was Saturday and I was wearing my favorite hoodie, you know, the one that fits you so well you keep it for a decade. But that day, something felt strange. It felt like an object was on the […]