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Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine passed a critical milestone on Thursday when a panel of experts formally recommended that the Food and Drug Administration authorize the vaccine. The agency is likely to do so within days, giving health care workers and nursing home residents first priority to begin receiving the first shots early next week.

The F.D.A.’s vaccine advisory panel, composed of independent scientific experts, infectious disease doctors and statisticians, voted 17 to 4, with one member abstaining, in favor of emergency authorization for people 16 and older. Although the F.D.A. does not have to follow the advice of its advisory panel, it usually does.

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The daily death toll from Covid-19 just exceeded the deaths from 9/11 on this important day for vaccine development

Thu, 2020-12-10 09:34 — mike kraft

The daily death toll from Covid-19 just exceeded the deaths from 9/11 on this important day for vaccine development The United States should be celebrating a day of great hope today, as a Covid-19 vaccine could get authorized for emergency use very soon. Christina Maxouris and Holly Yan, CNN CNN

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Merkel backs tougher virus curbs as German deaths hit record

Wed, 2020-12-09 18:52 — mike kraft

Merkel backs tougher virus curbs as German deaths hit record BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel advocated tougher restrictions on public life Wednesday and pleaded with her compatriots to cut down on socializing as the country reported its... AP NEWS

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U.K. Says Those With Severe Allergy Should Avoid Pfizer Shot

Wed, 2020-12-09 09:51 — mike kraft

U.K. Says Those With Severe Allergy Should Avoid Pfizer Shot People with a significant history of allergies should not currently receive the Covid-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, the U.K.’s National Health Service said, after two people experienced reactions from the shots. Emily Ashton,Naomi Kresge Bloomberg.com

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Biden lays out plan to combat covid in first 100 days, including requiring masks on interstate buses, trains

Tue, 2020-12-08 18:28 — mike kraft

Biden lays out plan to combat covid in first 100 days, including requiring masks on interstate buses, trains The president-elect also pledged to take steps to enable “the majority of our schools” to reopen and stay open. Amy Goldstein Washington Post

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Coronavirus updates: Joe Biden pledges to deliver 100M doses in 100 days; US reaches 15M infections; Trump holds vaccinne "summit"

Tue, 2020-12-08 18:17 — mike kraft

Coronavirus updates: Joe Biden pledges to deliver 100M doses in 100 days; US reaches 15M infections; Ohio-State Michigan football game off The US surpassed 15 million coronavirus cases Tuesday – with almost exactly 1 in 22 Americans testing positive. Latest COVID-19 news. John Bacon, Elinor Aspegren and Grace Hauck USA TODAY

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Covid-19 vaccine: First person receives Pfizer jab in UK

Tue, 2020-12-08 09:17 — mike kraft

A UK grandmother has become the first person in the world to be given the Pfizer Covid-19 jab as part of a mass vaccination programme.

Margaret Keenan, who turns 91 next week, said it was the "best early birthday present".

She was given the injection at 06:31 GMT - the first of 800,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine that will be dispensed in the coming weeks.

Up to four million more are expected by the end of the month.

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New data: Pfizer’s Vaccine Offers Strong Protection After First Dose

Tue, 2020-12-08 09:06 — mike kraft

WASHINGTON — The coronavirus vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech provides strong protection against Covid-19 within about 10 days of the first dose, according to documents published on Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration before a meeting of its vaccine advisory group.

The finding is one of several significant new results featured in the briefing materials, which include more than 100 pages of data analyses from the agency and from Pfizer. Last month, Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their two-dose vaccine had an efficacy rate of 95 percent after two doses administered three weeks apart. The new analyses show that the protection starts kicking in far earlier.

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Opinion: What South Korea Can Teach Us About Vaccine Hesitancy

Mon, 2020-12-07 18:25 — mike kraft

In early September, officials in South Korea announced an ambitious plan to vaccinate 30 million people against the flu — 10 million more than last year, an increase aimed at keeping down rates of the flu while the country battled the coronavirus.

But as The Times reported last week, the internet soon got in the way. As the vaccine was distributed, a few logistical problems popped up, and South Koreans began circulating grave stories online — pictures of vaccine boxes that looked like they had been stored unsafely, reports of vaccine contaminated with mysterious white particles.

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