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Mar 01 2021
Opinion
The Surprising Key to Combatting Vaccine Refusal
Why wouldn’t someone want a COVID-19 vaccine?
Staring at the raw numbers, it doesn’t seem like a hard choice. Thousands of people are dying of COVID-19 every day. Meanwhile, out of the 75,000 people who received a shot in the vaccine trials from Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, and Novavax, zero died and none were hospitalized after four weeks. As the United
The AtlanticOct 17 2021
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Fauci says Johnson & Johnson one-shot vaccine should have been two all along
The single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine that last week won approval from FDA advisers for a booster shot probably should have been a two-shot vaccine from the start, the nation's top infectious disease physician said Sunday.
"What the advisers to the FDA felt is that, given the data that they saw, very likely this should have been a two-dose vaccine to begin with," Dr. Anthony
USA TODAYOct 13 2020
Opinion
Vaccine development process is safe, claims of the contrary are baseless
All of our lives have been drastically impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — and we know all of us are eager to return to the way things were before the pandemic began. However, that simply won’t be possible without a safe, effective vaccine. Fortunately, due to the strength of American innovation and unprecedented public-private partnerships, a COVID-19 vaccine is on the horizon. We
Multiple Writers - Lean RightNov 21 2021
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Fauci Walks Back Claim Booster Shot Is Needed To Be Fully Vaccinated
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s leading infectious disease expert, walked back a claim he made earlier this week that a booster shot is needed to be considered fully vaccinated in a Sunday interview on This Week — though that could change, he said.
Fauci said “fully vaccinated right now, by definition, is the original two doses... of the Pfizer and Moderna and a single dose of J
ForbesNov 19 2021
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Will COVID boosters change who is considered 'fully vaccinated'?
A new COVID-19 vaccination debate has recently begun to emerge, this one centered around the definition of "fully vaccinated" and whether it might be altered to include a dose of the booster shot, Axios reports. On Friday, the FDA authorized both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna boosters for use in all adults at least six months out from their second dose.
Already this week, two
The Week - NewsMay 23 2021
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Covid: Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs effective against Indian variant - study
Two jabs of either vaccine give a similar level of protection against symptomatic disease from the Indian variant as they do for the Kent one.
However, both vaccines were only 33% effective against the Indian variant three weeks after the first dose.
This compared with 50% effectiveness against the Kent variant.
Public Health England, which ran the study, said the vaccines
BBC NewsJun 11 2021
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CDC looking into reports of heart inflammation in young males after COVID shot
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s COVID-19 vaccine advisory committee will attend an emergency meeting next week to discuss higher than expected reports of heart inflammation in young males who received their second dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
The June 18 meeting will address the conditions that are very rare and have not been directly linked to the vaccines
New York Post (News)Jul 13 2021
Analysis
The FDA issued another warning about the J&J vaccine. How much will this increase doubt among the unvaccinated?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is planning to warn that Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose COVID-19 vaccine can lead to an increased risk of a rare neurological condition known as Guillain-Barré syndrome. The warning does not involve the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, which are much more widely used in the United States.
This will not help calm nerves or quiet vaccine doubters, though
PoynterApr 27 2021
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CDC announces updated COVID-19 mask guidelines
Vaccinated Americans can now breathe a big, deep sigh of relief.
People who have had all their COVID-19 shots can go outside without wearing a mask unless they’re in large gatherings, the CDC said in updated guidance Tuesday.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said after the announcement that the state will immediately adopt the agency’s guidance, calling it “liberating.”
Those
New York Post (News)Mar 02 2021
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Biden says U.S. will have enough vaccines for 300 million adults by end of May
President Biden on Tuesday said that ramped-up coronavirus vaccine production will provide enough doses for 300 million Americans by the end May.
Why it matters: That's two months sooner than Biden's previous promise of enough vaccines for all American adults by the end of July.
The accelerated timeline also comes on the heels of pharmaceutical manufacturer Merck teaming up with
Axios