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Anthony Fauci, U.S. President Joe Bidens chief medical adviser, says that the "overwhelming majority" of vaccinated Americans should receive a booster dose, adding the definition of a full vaccination could expand to include three doses of an mRNA vaccine such as those from Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna, or two doses of the J&J vaccine.

If CDC Director Rochelle Walensky signs off on broader use, the extra shots could be available for all adults as soon as this weekend.

The new request from Pfizer and BioNTech came as "federal health officials have made clear their concern about waning immunity as the nation heads into the winter months," reported CNN.

Pfizer and BioNTech said that they are seeking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration emergency use authorization for their COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11. If authorized, this would be the first COVID-19 vaccine for younger children.

U.S. pharmaceutical firm Pfizer and its German partner, BioNTech, have asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize their coronavirus vaccine for emergency use for children 5 to 11 years old, the companies announced Thursday.

The European Medicines Agency approved booster doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for all people aged 18 and over, recommending the booster doses be considered at least 6 months after the second dose.

The companys estimated net income in Q2 skyrocketed to 2.8 billion euros due to sales from its COVID-19 vaccine.

Thonburi Healthcare Group (THG) chairman Boon Vanasin on Thursday confirmed that THG will sign a deal with Germany BioNTech to import 20 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to Thailand.

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was safe and effective in adolescents as young as 12, the drug companies announced Wednesday in a joint news release.

BioNTech and Pfizer raised this year's production target for their covid-19 vaccine to as many as 2.5 billion doses, with the biotech's chief executive predicting a version of the shot that can be stored in refrigerators will be ready within months.

Hong Kong and Macao temporarily suspended covid-19 vaccines manufactured by BioNTech because of a packaging defect, dealing a blow to inoculation drives seen as key to reviving the cities' pandemic-battered economies.

BioNTech could have capacity to make 3 billion doses of covid-19 vaccine with U.S. partner Pfizer next year, the German company's chief executive officer said, making their pioneering shot far more widely available around the world.