AllSides Balanced Search reveals information and ideas from all sides of the political spectrum so you can get the full picture.
Dec 18 2020
News
Mike Pence Injected with Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine Live on TV
Vice President Mike Pence and his wife Karen received an injection of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine Friday morning at the White House.
The Pences are the highest-ranking American public officials to get the vaccine, getting their shot live in front of the media to promote the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine. Surgeon General Jerome Adams also received the vaccine.
“Karen
Breitbart NewsDec 22 2020
News
How much credit should Trump get for the coronavirus vaccines?
The approval of two coronavirus vaccines represents a sign of hope as the United States endures its darkest period of the pandemic yet. By any measure, the vaccines are an extraordinary scientific accomplishment. The speed with which they were created and the revolutionary new technology they utilize would both have been unimaginable just a few years ago.
The vaccines were developed
Yahoo! The 360Dec 10 2020
News
FDA panel endorses Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency use
A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted Thursday to endorse the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, clearing the way for FDA leaders to authorize emergency mass distribution amid an ongoing surge of COVID-19 cases across the country.
Vaccine shipments would begin within hours of the FDA’s decision, which could come by as early as Friday, with the first vaccinations to
Fox News (Online News)Dec 22 2020
News
Drugmakers rush to test whether vaccines stop coronavirus variant
Drug makers including BioNTech and Moderna are scrambling to test their COVID-19 vaccines against the new fast-spreading variant of the virus that is raging in Britain, the latest challenge in the breakneck race to curb the pandemic.
Ugur Sahin, chief executive of Germany’s BioNTech, which with partner Pfizer took less than a year to get a vaccine approved, said on Tuesday he needs
ReutersDec 11 2020
Analysis
Why paying people to get the coronavirus vaccine won’t work
The first Covid-19 vaccine to gain emergency use authorization in the US could roll out within days, as Pfizer and BioNTech’s candidate was endorsed by an external advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 10. Two days earlier, an internal FDA panel endorsed the vaccine. These were the last required steps before the FDA authorizes the vaccine, which will soon be administered
QuartzDec 09 2020
News
61% say they’ll take coronavirus vaccine: poll
More than six in ten Americans say they’re willing to get vaccinated after a COVID-19 vaccine is approved, according to a new national poll.
But a Quinnipiac University national survey released on Wednesday also finds that less than four in ten say they’ll get their shots as soon as possible.
Fox News (Online News)Dec 03 2020
News
Obama, Bush and Clinton willing to take coronavirus vaccine in public
Barack Obama said during an interview on SiriusXM airing Thursday he'll take the COVID-19 vaccine and "may end up taking it on TV." Representatives for George W. Bush and Bill Clinton told CNN they'd also be willing to be inoculated in public.
Why it matters: The former presidents are hoping to instill confidence in the vaccines once authorized for use in the U.S. NIAID director Anthony
AxiosNov 16 2020
News
Moderna: Coronavirus vaccine nearly 95% effective in early look
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine was nearly 95% effective and thwarted severe disease in an interim analysis, the company said Monday, putting a second drugmaker on track to request emergency approval before the end of the year.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts, company said it counted 95 cases within its trial of 30,000 participants. Only five of them were in the vaccine arm of the trial,
Washington TimesMar 12 2024
News
State health officials offer vaccine clinics for those exposed to chicken pox at overflow shelter
BOSTON (WHDH) - State Health Officials hosted two vaccine clinics to vaccine people who were exposed to chicken pox at an overflow shelter, officials said. A small number of varicella (chicken pox) cases were identified in one of the overflow shelter sites where families are staying while they await placement in an emergency assistance shelter. Any identified cases were isolated with their
WHDH 7Sep 02 2020
News
Fauci predicts 'safe and effective' coronavirus vaccine by end of year
Dr. Anthony Fauci predicts that a coronavirus vaccine will be developed by the end of 2020.
"I believe that by the time we get to the end of this calendar year that we will feel comfortable that we do have a safe and effective vaccine," Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on NBC's "TODAY" on Wednesday.
He added that in a number
NBC News (Online)