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Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine is just 39% effective against delta in Israel, but still provides strong protection against severe illness and hospitalization.

Dr. Ashish Jha explains why he thinks people are underestimating how bad the Covid surge is going to get as a result of the delta variant.

Covid hospitalizations are up 32% from last week at about 3,500 per day and deaths have also increased 19% in the same time frame to about 240 per day.

A CDC advisory group is considering whether fully vaccinated Americans with weakened immune systems need a booster dose of the Covid vaccines.

There have been 8.1 cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome per 1 million J&J doses administered, according the CDC.

A CDC advisory panel is meeting Thursday to discuss a serious, but rare, autoimmune disorder, related to Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine.

Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug, Adhulem, generated $2 million in revenue in the first few weeks of its approval, the company said in its second-quarter earnings.

Fauci said that people who want to go the extra mile of safety could wear a mask indoors.

The pandemic and drug overdoses helped drive the biggest one-year drop in average life expectancies in the U.S. last year, according new data from the CDC.

Global sales of the Covid vaccine in the quarter were $164 million.

Dr. Vin Gupta explains why he’s encouraging patients who received the single-shot J&J Covid vaccine to get a Pfizer or Moderna booster shot.

The delta variant first identified in India is now estimated to make up 83% of all sequenced Covid-19 cases in the U.S., the director of the CDC said Tuesday.

The two men have exchanged blows at several Senate hearings, but Fauci says the case is now closed.

[The stream is slated to start at 10:00 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] Top U.S. health officials are scheduled to testify Tuesday before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee at a hearing on the Covid-19 pandemic that’s infected more than 191 million people and killed...

Dr. Nahid Bhadelia expresses concern about Covid vaccine misinformation being spread on social media.

A federal judge upheld a university’s vaccine requirement for returning students in what appears to be the first case of its kind.

The pandemic could end sooner if countries ensure the vaccines are distributed equitably to poorer nations.

Former FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC he expects further spread of the Covid delta variant, which is “clearly far more contagious” than earlier strains.

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said Tennessee’s decision to cease vaccine outreach to teenagers while in the midst of a pandemic is “incredibly disturbing.”

Prenetics is set to merge with Artisan Acquisition, a SPAC, in a deal that will value the new entity at $1.3 billion or more, a source told CNBC.