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Nov 18 2020
Opinion
Light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel: Fantastic vaccine news
At last, light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel: At least two highly effective vaccines should begin distribution before year’s end.
Moderna this week followed Pfizer in announcing plans to have a vaccine on the market by the end of December, and other companies are likely to soon follow.
US Health Secretary Alex Azar expects enough doses to vaccinate 20 million Americans before
New York Post (News)Jun 11 2021
News
CDC panel to hold emergency meeting on heart inflammation cases linked to COVID-19 vaccine
The committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccines will hold an emergency meeting next Friday, June 18, to discuss cases of heart inflammation possibly linked to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines.
The panel, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, is collecting more data on COVID-19 vaccines for its meeting next Friday.
Washington ExaminerDec 07 2020
News
Trump to sign coronavirus vaccine executive order prioritizing Americans over foreign nations
President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday that will ensure all Americans have access to the coronavirus vaccine before the U.S. government begins aiding nations around the world, Fox News has learned. Senior administration officials told Fox News Monday that the president will reemphasize to the American people that the “priority has been an America First approach,” during
Fox News (Online News)Jan 13 2021
News
Extra Covid-19 Shots Pose Quandary for Vaccination Sites
David MacMillan lucked into a dose of Moderna Inc.’s Covid vaccine late on New Year’s Day. While grocery shopping at Giant Food in Washington, D.C., the 31-year-old paralegal passed by the in-store pharmacist who was scrambling to find takers for two doses after a pair of health-care workers missed their appointments. The store was scheduled to close in 10 minutes and the thawed doses would
Wall Street Journal (News)Mar 18 2021
Analysis
Can vaccination and infection rates add up to reach COVID-19 herd immunity?
It’s been a long, dark winter of Covid-19 concerns, stoked by high post-holiday case counts and the American death tally exceeding 530,000 lives lost. But with three vaccines — Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson — now authorized for emergency use in the United States, there seems to be hope that the pandemic’s end may be in sight.
A recent analysis by the Wall Street
PolitiFactDec 31 2020
News
Employee intentionally removed COVID-19 vaccine from fridge, ruining more than 500 doses, hospital says; FBI investigating
Advocate Aurora Health says a now-fired employee intentionally removed 57 vials of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine from a refrigerator last weekend, causing them to become ineffective and be discarded.
Each vial contains enough vaccine for 10 vaccinations.
Initially, Aurora was "led to believe" the removal was an error. But Wednesday, the employee "acknowledged that they
USA TODAYNov 18 2020
Opinion
Sorry, America. Vaccines won’t end the pandemic anytime soon.
With more than 240,000 Americans dead from the COVID virus and far more hospitalized, our country is desperate for a vaccine that prevents serious cases. Billions of dollars in taxpayer money are being spent to put a stop to the virus, yet drug companies are using predominantly mild cases that produce cold-like symptoms, not infections or serious cases, to test the efficacy of their vaccines.
The Philadelphia InquirerDec 26 2021
News
Trump Doubles Down on Vaccine Advocacy, Dismisses Candace Owens’s Skepticism
Former president Donald Trump was effusive in his praise for the coronavirus vaccines in a recent interview with the Daily Wire’s Candace Owens, telling Owens that “the vaccine is one of the greatest achievements of mankind.”
Owens began by asking Trump about vaccine mandates, citing “Big Pharma,” as a “huge topic on the minds of mothers especially.” Trump quickly restated opposition to
National Review (News)Aug 13 2021
News
CDC panel unanimously recommends Covid vaccine booster shots for vulnerable Americans
A key Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel unanimously voted Friday to recommend booster shots of Pfizer or Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines to immunocompromised Americans, clearing a major hurdle enabling vulnerable patients to get a third dose.
The decision by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices follows the Food and Drug Administration’s approval Thursday of the
CNBCOct 23 2021
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F.D.A. Says Pfizer Vaccine’s Benefits Outweigh Key Risks in Children 5 to 11
Federal regulators evaluated for the first time on Friday the safety and efficacy of a coronavirus vaccine for children 5 to 11, saying that the benefits of staving off Covid-19 with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine generally outweighed the risks of the most worrisome possible side effects in that age group.
The analysis came on the same day that the Food and Drug Administration posted data
New York Times (News)