COVID-19 Vaccine

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a cornucopia of potential COVID-19 vaccine options — and an infodemic of misinformation. Snopes is here to keep the facts straight.

When should you get covid booster and flu shot?

When Should You Get the New COVID-19 Booster and the Flu Shot? Now Is the Right Time For Both

22 September 2022

When COVID-19 and the flu co-infect, it’s ‘flurona.’ But such cases are rare, and there...

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FILE - In this Thursday Oct. 15, 2020 file photo, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II visits the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at Porton Down, England, to view the Energetics Enclosure and display of weaponry and tactics used in counter intelligence. Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is encouraging people to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying the shot is quick, harmless and will help protect others against the disease. In a video call with the officials responsible for rolling out the vaccine broadcast on Friday Feb. 26, 2021, the 94-year-old monarch compared the effort that’s gone into Britain’s national vaccination campaign to the way people worked together during World War II. (Ben Stansall/Pool via AP, File)

Queen Elizabeth II Says COVID Vaccine is Quick, Painless and Helps Others

26 February 2021

“Well, once you’ve had the vaccine you have a feeling of, you know, you’re protected,...

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Did Prince Philip Get the COVID-19 Vaccine Before He Died?

10 April 2021

The royal consort was 99 years old at the time of his death.

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FILE - A Jackson, Miss., resident receives a Pfizer booster shot from a nurse at a vaccination site Feb. 8, 2022. The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in for the yearly flu shot. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

White House to Encourage COVID Boosters, Flu Shot This Fall

1 September 2022

The Biden administration hopes to make getting a COVID-19 booster as routine as going in...

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FILE - A pharmacist injects a patient with a booster dosage of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in Lawrence, Mass., on Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. U.S. regulators have authorized updated COVID-19 boosters, the first to directly target today's most common omicron strain. The move on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2022, by the Food and Drug Administration tweaks the recipe of shots made by Pfizer and rival Moderna that already have saved millions of lives. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

WHO: New COVID Cases, Deaths Keep Falling Nearly Everywhere

31 August 2022

The U.N. health agency said there were 4.5 million new COVID-19 cases reported last week,...

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COVID-19 vaccine maker Moderna is a sponsor of the 2022 U.S. Open tennis tournament.

Is Moderna a Sponsor of the 2022 US Open?

30 August 2022

Readers asked if the COVID-19 vaccine maker truly was a partnering sponsor with the tennis...

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FILE - Attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. speaks after a hearing challenging the constitutionality of the state legislature's repeal of the religious exemption to vaccination on behalf of New York state families who held lawful religious exemptions, during a rally outside the Albany County Courthouse Aug. 14, 2019, in Albany, N.Y. Instagram and Facebook have suspended Children's Health Defense from its platforms for repeated violations of its policies on COVID-19 misinformation. The nonprofit led by Robert Kennedy Jr. is regularly criticized by public health advocates for its misleading claims about vaccines and the COVID-19 pandemic. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink, File)

RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Group Kicked off Instagram, Facebook

19 August 2022

Children's Health Defense has spread misleading claims about vaccines and other public health measures designed...

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Did a 2-Year-Old in Virginia Die After Getting COVID-19 Vaccination?

11 May 2021

The claim is based solely on a dubious report from VAERS, the Vaccine Adverse Events...

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FILE - Signs on the wall remind students to keep 6 feet apart during a media tour of the Norris Middle School in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The CDC has again revised its COVID guidelines, further relaxing quarantine recommendations and dropping the recommendation that people stay at least 6 feet away from each other. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)

CDC Drops Quarantine, Distancing Recommendations for COVID

12 August 2022

The changes are driven by a recognition that an estimated 95% of Americans 16 and...

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In this image provided by the White House, President Joe Biden speaks with Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., on the phone from the Treaty Room in the residence of the White House Thursday, July 21, 2022, in Washington. Biden says he's "doing great" after testing positive for COVID-19. The White House said Biden is experiencing "very mild symptoms," including a stuffy nose, fatigue and cough. He's taking Paxlovid, an antiviral drug designed to reduce the severity of the disease. (Adam Schultz/The White House via AP)

White House Tries to Make Biden’s COVID a ‘Teachable Moment’

22 July 2022

For more than a year, President Joe Biden’s ability to avoid the coronavirus seemed to...

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FILE - A kidney dish with syringes containing the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine sits in a refrigerator ready for use at a vaccination center in Prisdorf, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. On Tuesday, July 19, 2022, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory panel recommended the shots and final action will come from the agency's director. (Georg Wendt/dpa via AP, File)

CDC Endorses More Traditional Novavax COVID Shot for Adults

20 July 2022

U.S. adults who haven’t gotten any COVID-19 shots yet should consider a new option from...

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Evidence of Polio in London Stirs COVID Vaccine Concerns, Conspiracies

Evidence of Poliovirus in London Stirs Vaccine Confusion

29 June 2022

Social media users tried to sow doubt and confusion about the safety and efficacy of...

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