France’s top health authority is recommending doubling the time between the two required Covid-19 vaccine shots as a way to stretch supplies and inoculate as many people as possible amid a resurgence in the spread of the coronavirus.
The man tapped by the Trump administration to lead a Manhattan Project-style effort to drastically cut the time needed to develop a coronavirus vaccine said he has been troubled by the failure to get more shots into arms. “A vaccine is useless if it stays on a shelf,” Moncef Slaoui said.
Follow-up doses of the Covid-19 vaccines could be given up to six weeks later if it’s not feasible to get them in the recommended interval, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration also offering some flexibility for “modest delays.”
The Biden administration could delay or rewrite three major health-care rules issued in the final weeks of the Trump administration after their effective dates were found unlawful by a federal watchdog agency.
Nutritional supplement maker Ariix LLC may pursue a false advertising suit against NutriSearch Corp., a guidebook publisher, over allegedly rigged ratings in favor of competitor Usana Health Sciences Inc. because Ariix sufficiently alleged the publication is commercial speech without full First Amendment protection, a divided panel of the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday.
Californians will vote next year on whether to uphold a statewide ban on sales of fruit, mint, and other flavored tobacco products after the law’s opponents successfully collected enough signatures to get a referendum on the ballot, state officials said Friday.
