Health & Science

The National Restaurant Association requested priority for those who work in foodservice after first responders and the most vulnerable.

Moderna said Monday it’s accelerating work on a Covid-19 booster shot to guard against the recently discovered variant in South Africa. Its researchers said its current coronavirus vaccine appears to work against the two highly transmissible strains found in the U.K. and South Africa, although it looks like it may be less effective against the latter. The two-dose vaccine...

School closures have a clear negative impact on children’s health, the United Nations health agency has warned.

The new clinical trial data shows a single shot of the vaccine “gives sustainable antibodies,” Dr. Paul Stoffels, J&J chief scientific officer, told CNBC.

Jason McDonald, a spokesman for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in a statement to CNBC the agency is looking at the new research.

“We’re in a very difficult situation, and it’s getting worse,” White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said Tuesday.

Converting vacant retail space into rapid testing sites could help people feel comfortable going back to restaurants, real estate executive William Rudin said.

“We still have to understand a lot more about the vaccines, know what to measure, how to measure,” LabCorp CEO Adam Schechter told CNBC.

The scientific leader of the U.S. vaccine effort will stay in the role for 30 days, but won’t be chief advisor as of Inauguration Day, sources say.

Sellers on the dark web have been advertising Covid-19 vaccines, asking for bitcoin payments and not delivering the goods, cybersecurity firm Check Point found.

France is known to be one of the most vaccine-skeptic nations in the world, and that makes its Covid-19 immunization drive much harder.

The Butantan Institute had said last week that CoronaVac was 78% effective among volunteers with mild to severe infections, reported the Wall Street Journal.

A more infectious coronavirus strain first identified in South Africa is “disturbing” and could pose a threat to Covid antibody drugs, Dr. Anthony Fauci said.

The government is changing the way it allocates Covid vaccine doses, now basing it on how quickly states can administer shots and size of their elderly population.

The new coronavirus has undergone several major mutations, and it’s likely that more, significant variations will emerge.

New York will turn Citi Field, home of the Mets, into a ‘mega’ Covid vaccination site, aiming to give as many as 7,000 shots a day, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

Cuomo said further expanding to those 65 and older will open eligibility to about 7 million people, but the state is only receiving about 300,000 doses a week.

“The South African variant … is the one of concern. It has more dramatic mutations to that spike protein,” Eli Lilly CEO Dave Ricks said.

The Trump administration will issue new guidelines that expand vaccine eligibility to everyone age 65 and older, a senior official told CNBC.

“I think the main bottleneck right now is to make sure we ramp up our prioritization so we can administer more vaccines,” Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told CNBC.