The Food and Drug Administration has ended a program that provided free COVID-19 vaccines in August of 2024. Here's what you need to know.

Health Canada approved Pfizer-BioNTech’s updated COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, marking its third authorization of vaccine formulations that protect against the most recently circulating variants of the virus.

On Aug. 22, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of a new Novavax COVID vaccine, as well as updated versions of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines. According to NPR, this latest vaccine is already being distributed and administered across the country.

Novavax uses a protein-based vaccine strategy, which means people getting the vaccine receive a protein made by the virus that their body’s immune systems then see as foreign and mount responses against. mRNA vaccines, by contrast, include snippets of mRNA genetic material from the COVID-19 virus’ spike protein.

Pfizer-BioNTech's updated vaccine to protect against a recently circulating variant of COVID-19 is authorized, Health Canada said on Tuesday.

Updated 2024-2025 flu and COVID-19 vaccinations are now available at Southern Nevada Health District (SNHD) clinics.The vaccines can be administered simultaneo

After the Kitsap Peninsula and its neighboring communities saw an uptick in COVID-19 hospitalizations this summer, public health officials are encouraging everyone receive an updated immunization this fall.

COVID-19 numbers are on the rise in the N.W.T., with 54 known cases counted between June and August this year. That's four times the number recorded over the same time period last year.