Pfizer on Tuesday requested federal regulators authorize the COVID-19 booster for all adults. Currently people 65 and older, as well as adults at high risk due to medical conditions or their living or working situations, are eligible for the booster. The FDA is expected to grant Pfizer’s request.

A new study out of Texas shows unvaccinated patients are 40 times more likely to die of COVID-19 than fully vaccinated Texans. When numbers were studied during the Delta variant surge, the likelihood of death for unvaccinated people shrank but still remained exponentially higher, at 20 times that of vaccinated Texans.

In more vaccine news, Moderna is attempting to keep the names of government scientists off its coronavirus vaccine patent, which could have major implications in how the vaccine is distributed throughout the world. Three researchers from the National Institutes of Health worked with Moderna to develop the vaccine, which was also funded with $10 billion in public money.