CDC now also recommends Moderna's COVID vaccine for adolescents
Moderna's request had been stalled for months as regulators studied whether it posed a higher risk of rare heart inflammation side effects.
Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers the Biden administration's public health agencies, including the federal response to infectious disease outbreaks like COVID-19. Previously, he was a campaign reporter for CBS News based out of Las Vegas, where he was raised. He covered presidential, Senate and House candidates for the 2020 election cycle in Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico. He has also worked in Washington for "Face the Nation" and in New York for the "CBS Evening News." Tin graduated from Columbia University in 2017 with a bachelor's degree in political science.
Moderna's request had been stalled for months as regulators studied whether it posed a higher risk of rare heart inflammation side effects.
A new feature on vaccines.gov lets parents search for locations offering the shots for children.
Panels of outside vaccine advisers to the CDC and FDA both voted unanimously this week to back the shots from Moderna as well as Pfizer and BioNTech.
The White House says doses will be available everywhere from pediatricians' offices to children's museums, if health authorities sign off on the shots later this month.
The FDA's vaccine advisers meet later this month to weigh updating booster shots.
Federal health officials released new details Friday on the monkeypox outbreak, which has risen to at least 23 cases in the U.S. and hundreds around the world.
The rate of COVID-19 infections is still highest among the unvaccinated, according to figures through April.
Health officials are responding to at least 13 monkeypox cases identified in eight different states.
The moves come in the midst of a surge of COVID hospitalizations among the oldest Americans.
Respiratory symptoms and musculoskeletal pain were the most common lingering health issues reported.
The agency also upped its recommendation for second boosters in adults 50 and older, as well as the immunocompromised.
The CDC published updated data Thursday on counties at "medium" and "high" levels of COVID-19.
The agency also upped its recommendation for second boosters in adults 50 and older, as well as the immunocompromised.
The White House announced that flags would fly at half-staff to commemorate the tragic milestone.
The president said the world is "at a new stage in fighting this pandemic, facing an evolving set of challenges."