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Trump Backpedals on Plan to Give White House Staffers Priority For Covid-19 Vaccine
U.S. President Donald Trump, the person most responsible for the deaths of 300,000 Americans thus far from covid-19, issued a tweet Sunday night announcing that most White House staff would no longer be getting vaccinated for coronavirus before other Americans. The tweet came after a report on Sunday from the New York Times detailed how…
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Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine Wins Crucial Vote, Now One Step Away From FDA Authorisation
The covid-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech is one big step closer to reaching the American public. On late Thursday afternoon, a group of outside experts assembled by the Food and Drug Administration largely voted to recommend the vaccine for emergency use in people ages 16 and older. The vote will likely soon be…
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Headache, Fatigue, and Other Not-So-Scary Side Effects of Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccine
Today we got the first substantial look at data on one of the covid-19 vaccines likely to reach the U.S. general public later this month. The Food and Drug Administration and the companies Pfizer and BioNTech released summary documentation of the trial data collected so far on Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine candidate. The lengthy materials,…
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Moderna to Ask FDA for Emergency Authorisation of Covid-19 Vaccine on Monday
Biotech company Moderna will ask for an emergency use authorisation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its covid-19 vaccine on Monday, according to a new press release posted to the firm’s website. Moderna also released new information indicating its messenger RNA-based vaccine has a 94.1% efficacy rate in a study of 30,000 people…