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The vaccine was also found to be safe and well-tolerated among the children in the study, the companies said Monday. Many of the children had received at least some of their shots during the Omicron wave, suggesting that the three-dose series worked well against the highly contagious variant after the two doses produced mixed results. “We have a big problem called Omicron, and I think we have a good solution,” Pfizer Chief Executive Albert Bourla said in an interview.…

“We are ready from a manufacturing standpoint,” Moderna Chief Executive Stéphane Bancel said during a virtual appearance Thursday at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival. The Future of Everything Festival 2022 The last two years have had a profound impact on the world. Now what? Join us May 17-19 to explore what comes next.…

U.S. health regulators cleared for use a booster shot of the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE for children 5 to 11 years, expanding booster access to about 28 million youngsters. The decision Tuesday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permits a third dose of the shot at least five months after the second dose. It comes weeks after the drugmakers said a third shot safely generated a strong immune response in the children, including…

Abbott Laboratories said it could resume infant formula production within two weeks at a Michigan manufacturing plant that has been shut since February because of bacterial contamination concerns, exacerbating a nationwide formula shortage. The Illinois-based company said Wednesday it would resume production pending approval from the Food and Drug Administration, which has been conducting an investigation into whether bacterial contamination at the plant…

E. coli illnesses linked to frozen pizza made by Nestlé SA NSRGY -0.11% in France have killed two children and sickened dozens of others, presenting the packaged-foods giant with its most serious food-safety issue in years.French authorities last month launched a criminal investigation into Nestlé for involuntary manslaughter, deceitful practices and endangering others, according to France’s Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prevention, a…