Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes Second Booster Dose of Two COVID-19 Vaccines for Older and Immunocompromised Individuals (Website, Regulatory)FDA
29 March 2022
The FDA authorized a second booster dose of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or the Moderna COVID-19 vaccines for older people and certain immunocompromised individuals.
Taiwan’s science academy fined for biosafety lapses after lab worker contracts COVID-19 (Website, News)Science
24 January 2022
A research assistant at an Academia Sinica lab fell ill in November 2021 after working with infected animals
COVID-19 Antigen Testing Biosafety Guidance (Document)Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
This document describes recommended biosafety practices to protect personnel and the work area from contamination with Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) when collecting and testing specimens for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) using an antigen test (ex. BD VeritorTM, Quidel SofiaTM or Abbott BinaxNOW TM ).
Biosafety advisory: SARS-CoV-2 (Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) (Website, Regulatory)Government of Canada
This recent update includes Classification of full length SARS-CoV-2 RNA as a Risk Group 2 human pathogen and a Risk Group 1 animal pathogen.
COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Special Collection (Website, Publication)American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
This collection highlights all COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 research published across ASM Journals. All content is free to read and available for text and data mining via PubMed Central.