News 12's Elizabeth Hashagen was joined by Dr. Daniel Griffin to talk about COVID-19 boosters for children 5 to 11 years old.

The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer boosters for children ages 5 to 11. Pfizer requested this emergency use authorization at the end of April, after company data showed that a third vaccine dose raised Omicron-fighting antibodies by 36 times in this age group.

If so many people are testing at home, do we have a real idea of what the COVID-19 numbers are?

While the FDA has now authorized many COVID-19 tests without a prescription, there is now a test authorized for flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), along with COVID-19, where an individual can self-identify their need for a test, order it, collect their sample and send it to the lab for testing, without consulting a health care professional.

There's a new COVID-19 drug seeking emergency use authorization. It's called sabizabulin.

An HIV vaccine has eluded scientists for decades. But mRNA technology — the same technology used in the COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech — could be a turning point.