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Mar 08 2022
Fact Check
Post Misconstrues Public Health Awareness Campaigns About Blood Clots
Blood clotting in the deep veins, or deep vein thrombosis, is a serious and relatively common medical condition. In addition to damaging the valves of veins, which can cause pain and be debilitating, clots that form in the legs or pelvis can also travel to the lungs and block blood flow. That’s known as pulmonary embolism, which is often lethal.
Collectively known as venous
FactCheck.orgJan 18 2021
Fact Check
Are Undocumented Immigrants Ineligible For the COVID-19 Vaccine?
President-elect Joe Biden announced his $1.9 trillion plan to tackle the coronavirus pandemic on January 14. It would include $1,400 individual stimulus checks, a $15 federal minimum wage and $20 billion to invest in a national vaccination program, according to the New York Times.
Newsweek reported that the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines were authorized for emergency use
NewsweekJul 17 2022
Analysis
New COVID Vaccines Will be Ready This Fall. America Won’t Be.
Not so long ago, America’s next COVID fall looked almost tidy. Sure, cases might rise as the weather chills and dries, and people flock indoors. But Pfizer and Moderna were already cooking up America’s very first retooled COVID vaccines, better matched to Omicron and its offshoots, and a new inoculation campaign was brewing. Instead of needing to dose up three, four, even five times within
The AtlanticNov 24 2021
Fact Check
Facebook Post Spreads Bogus Claim About ‘Detox’ After Vaccination
A vaccination can’t be reversed through any “detox” process, medical experts say. Yet, a social media post is spreading the false claim that a bath with borax can “get rid” of a COVID-19 vaccine. The bath may remove some water from the body, but not the molecules associated with vaccines, a toxicologist told us.
How do we know vaccines are safe?
The vaccines approved or
FactCheck.orgDec 23 2020
News
Over 1 million have received coronavirus vaccine in US, CDC says
Over 1 million people in the United States have received a dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, 1,008,025 people had been vaccinated by Wednesday. Over 9.4 million doses have been distributed.
The Food and Drug Administration first issued an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer vaccine on Dec. 11. Pfizer began
Washington ExaminerJun 02 2021
News
How Long Does Immunity From the COVID Vaccines Last?
If you’re fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you’ve probably breathed a sigh of relief. But how long can you expect that feeling to last? The CDC has yet to hazard a guess as to the durability of post-vaccine immunity on their website, but a few studies have given us some clues.
And so far, it’s mostly good news. A letter from a vaccine research group to the New England Journal of
LifehackerApr 09 2021
News
Blow to US vaccination campaign as J&J ‘one-shot’ vaccine deliveries plummet
US deliveries of the “one-shot” Johnson and Johnson vaccine are set to drop by 85% next week, in a setback to the government’s vaccination campaign.
The Biden administration has allocated just 700,000 J&J doses to states for the week beginning 12 April, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a huge drop from the nearly 5m shots allocated the week before.
The GuardianFeb 11 2021
News
Biden says US will have enough COVID-19 vaccines for every American by end of July
The Biden administration has bought enough doses of COVID-19 vaccines to cover 300 million people in the US by the end of July, President Joe Biden said Thursday afternoon, though this doesn't mean everyone will be vaccinated by then.
"We've now purchased enough vaccine supply to vaccinate all Americans," Biden said.
Actually administering the vaccines to all Americans could take
CNETNov 12 2021
Opinion
The big questions about Covid-19 booster shots
All of a sudden, it seems a lot of people are getting Covid-19 booster shots. The additional doses of Moderna’s and Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccines have been approved in the US for people 65 and up as well as at-risk populations, such as people with certain health conditions and front-line workers. Everyone who got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine can now get a booster. Meanwhile, Pfizer is asking
VoxDec 26 2021
News
Trump hails the COVID-19 vaccine as 'one of the greatest achievements of mankind' and rejects vaccine skepticism in new interview
Former President Donald Trump hailed the COVID-19 vaccine and pushed back on vaccine skepticism in a new interview with conservative commentator Candace Owens.
Trump called the vaccine "one of the greatest achievements of mankind" and praised his administration's success in getting the vaccine developed on his watch.
Typically, vaccine development takes years, but the Trump
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