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The US screwed up its vaccine roll out in part because it was too choosy about who should get shots firstJanuary 16, 2021 at 10:20 AM A frontline healthcare worker receives a Moderna COVID-19 vaccination at the Park County Health Departments storefront clinic on January 5, 2021 in Livingston, Montana.
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The US has one of the lowest COVID-19 vaccinations per capita rates in the world. Israel has the best.
Israel chose to prioritize its elderly. The US, by contrast, rolled out its doses using a complicated priority tier system based, in part, on people's employment.
In order to fix the ...Tags: Health, Florida, Texas, Science, News, Washington Post, Cdc, White House, Israel, US, San Francisco, West Virginia, Trends, Bloomberg, North Dakota, Astrazeneca 73 people like this. Like Why America's vaccine rollout was a total disaster - and what it means for the next few monthsJanuary 16, 2021 at 11:10 AM Business Insider
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The US developed coronavirus vaccines in record time last year.
But the process of getting those shots into people's arms is going horrendously slow, just as more Americans are dying from the virus than ever before.
The blame lies with a president who either forgot — or didn't care enough — to finish off the country's vaccination plan, setting the US on the back foot.
There are promising signs that this vaccine drive ...Tags: Facebook, Florida, New York, Texas, Science, News, Washington Post, Cdc, Washington, Oregon, White House, New York City, Brown University, Israel, US, Alabama 107 people like this. Like There are no extra COVID-19 vaccines doses left to send to states, despite Trump's health officials promising to release more 3 days agoJanuary 15, 2021 at 1:18 PM Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Michigan on Sunday, December 13, 2020.
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Federal officials promised earlier this week to stop stockpiling second doses of COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna, and instead use them to get more people their first shots.
That statement prompted many states to open up vaccine distribution to a wider swath of the public thi...Tags: Post, Science, News, Abc, Washington Post, Washington, Massachusetts, Brown University, America, Trends, Public Health, Connecticut, Pfizer, Biden, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Trump 55 people like this. Like Hundreds of New Yorkers descended on a vaccination site after a Facebook post said there were over 400 spare shotsJanuary 14, 2021 at 6:20 PM A pharmacist fills a syringe to prepare a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for front-line health care workers at a vaccination site at Torrance Memorial Medical Center on December 19, 2020 in Torrance, California.
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A Facebook post said there were more than 400 extra vaccine doses available in New York City for walk-in appointments that needed to be used before 7pm.
Swarms of New Yorkers lined up at Brooklyn Grand Army Terminal seeking the...Tags: Facebook, Science, New York City, Trends, Brooklyn, Bill De Blasio, Vaccine, Jessica Valenti, Brannan, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn Army, Justin Brannan, Torrance Memorial Medical Center, Hilary Brueck, Stephen Lurie, Coronavirus 58 people like this. Like A COVID-19 test result means nothing if you don't isolate before and afterJanuary 12, 2021 at 4:27 PM Boots
You should self-isolate for 5 to 7 days before getting tested for COVID-19 and stay home until you get your results.
That might require quarantining after a possible exposure or planning ahead before traveling.
Testing too early, or seeing people while you wait to get tested, means your results won't catch your most recent exposures.
Going out into the world before you get your results back could also invalidate a negative test.
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If...Tags: Science, Cdc, US, Trends, Testing, Healthcare, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Swaminathan, Quarantine, Susie Neilson, Hilary Brueck, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention During, Andrea Michelson, Anand Swaminathan 138 people like this. Like Biden plans to release the entire coronavirus vaccine supply instead of reserving half to guarantee second dosesJanuary 8, 2021 at 3:38 PM President-elect Joe Biden receives his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine at Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware on December 21, 2020.
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President-elect Joe Biden plans to release all available coronavirus vaccine doses when he takes office on January 20, CNN reported.
The Trump administration is currently holding back half the supply to guarantee there will be enough for two shots per person.
But some public-health experts say the US could be more generous with the...Tags: UK, Science, News, US, Trends, Joe Biden, Ap, Bbc, Cnn, Fda, Pfizer, Biden, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Trump, Johnson & Johnson, Internal Medicine 118 people like this. Like When will AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine be available in the US?January 8, 2021 at 2:24 PM AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine.
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In the UK, vaccines Pfizer, Moderna, and AstraZeneca are being used to fight the pandemic. AstraZeneca's hasn't been approved for use yet in the US.
AstraZeneca may not apply for a US FDA Emergency Use Authorization until the spring. The data from their UK trial was "odd" and had one "pretty serious error" in it, a US vaccine expert said.
AstraZeneca is now conducting a larger trial of nearly 30,000 people in the US.
Visit Business I...Tags: UK, Science, US, Trends, Public Health, Healthcare, Portland, Brazil, Astrazeneca, Fda, Pfizer, University of Oxford, Johnson Johnson, US Food and Drug Administration, EUA, Raine 70 people like this. Like CDC: With nearly 5 million Americans vaccinated, just 29 have had confirmed allergic reactionsJanuary 6, 2021 at 1:11 PM Diana Carolina, a pharmacist at Memorial Healthcare System, receives a Pfizer-BioNtech Covid-19 vaccine at Memorial Healthcare System, on December 14, 2020 in Miramar, Florida.
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The CDC has released its first set of data about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines.
So far, only 29 people of the 5 million vaccinated have had confirmed, allergic reactions after vaccination in the US.
"Our vaccine safety systems haven't picked up any worrisome signals," the CDC's Nancy Messon...Tags: UK, Science, Cdc, US, Trends, Public Health, Healthcare, Fda, Pfizer, Portland Oregon, Paul Offit, Paula Bronstein Getty, Thomas Clark, Moderna, Memorial Healthcare System, Miramar Florida 108 people like this. Like Why you're not fully protected from COVID-19 after a single vaccine doseJanuary 5, 2021 at 9:35 AM Both Pfizer and Moderna'a COVID-19 vaccines require two shots, given weeks apart.
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Most COVID-19 vaccines are given as two shots, administered several weeks apart.
Protection does not start when the needle hits your arm.
It takes some days after each shot for the body to mount its own immune response to the novel coronavirus and prevent disease.
Experts don't know exactly how protected from infection people are after their first shot, but there are signs of ...Tags: UK, Science, California, Cdc, Kentucky, US, Alabama, Trends, Georgia, Healthcare, Astrazeneca, Cbs, Fda, University of Pennsylvania, Pfizer, Oxford University 146 people like this. Like New UK COVID-19 vaccine recommendations say 'it is reasonable' for people to mix and match different shots, even though there's not yet evidence that worksJanuary 1, 2021 at 11:40 PM A nurse prepares to inject staff with the Pfizer/BioNTech covid-19 vaccine at Bradley Manor residential care home in Belfast on December 9, 2020.
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The UK has authorized two different coronavirus vaccines: one from Pfizer/BioNTech, and another from AstraZeneca/University of Oxford.
Both require two doses, given several weeks apart.
The British government is suggesting that people could mix and match their two COVID-19 shots, if need be.
There's a tri...Tags: UK, Science, News, Trends, Bloomberg, Britain, Vaccination, Astrazeneca, Belfast, Pfizer, Times, Cornell University, Moore, John Moore, Bingham, University of California San Francisco 56 people like this. Like Why you have to wear a mask for a few months after you get your COVID-19 vaccineDecember 30, 2020 at 4:59 PM A man wears a mask in Los Angeles on June 18.
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The arrival of COVID-19 vaccines signals a step towards normalcy, but it doesn't mean you should stop wearing a mask.
Mask-wearing and social distancing are vital to keep yourself and others safe while we wait for the vaccine to become more widely available.
The vaccine won't protect you right away, and we still don't know whether it keeps you from contracting the virus or if it just prevent...Tags: South Korea, UK, Australia, California, US, Los Angeles, Trends, Bill Gates, Healthcare, Astrazeneca, Pfizer, Vaccine, Anthony Fauci, Gates, Ohio State University, Goff 83 people like this. Like Florida and Texas have started vaccinating people 65 and older against the coronavirus, breaking with CDC guidelinesDecember 28, 2020 at 6:19 PM Vera Leip, 88, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at the John Knox Village Continuing Care Retirement Community in Pompano Beach, Florida, on December 16, 2020.
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Florida and Texas residents age 65 and older are now able to get coronavirus vaccines.
The decision bucks CDC recommendations that say essential workers and people older than 75 should be next.
"The problem is people that are 73, 74 would be in the back of the line for a young 21-year-old worker who's considered 'e...Tags: Health, Florida, New York, Texas, Science, News, Cdc, Massachusetts, US, Trends, Wyoming, Fox News, Pfizer, Vaccines, Cnbc, Greg Abbott 80 people like this. Like Most vaccine skeptics are persuadable and will get the COVID-19 shot, says a Nobel prize-winner who studies vaccine hesitancyDecember 28, 2020 at 9:19 AM Dr. Abhijit Banerjee on November 16, 2012 in New Delhi, India. Banerjee was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics in 2019 along with his wife Esther Duflo and Harvard professor Michael Kremer for their research on how to alleviate poverty, which has revolutionized the field of development economics.
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Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has studied what motivates vaccine-hesitant people to change their minds.
He's found that most people don't have "str...Tags: Science, News, India, US, Trends, Public Health, Harvard, National Institutes of Health, Pfizer, Portsmouth, New Delhi, Anthony Fauci, Pew Research Center, Bethesda Maryland, BANERJEE, Esther Duflo 88 people like this. Like The 11 most mind-blowing, awe-inspiring health discoveries and innovations of 2020December 22, 2020 at 1:40 PM United Parcel Service President of Global Healthcare, Wesley Wheeler, holds up a sample of the vial that will be used to transport the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a Senate Transportation subcommittee hybrid hearing on December 10, 2020, in Washington, DC.
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In 2020, scientists learned a lot about the coronavirus, developing several impressive new vaccines.
Striking innovations included a new treatment for peanut allergies, and a non-hormonal gel birth contr...Tags: Science, Cdc, Washington, White House, Boston, US, Trends, Features, Public Health, Healthcare, Food And Drug Administration, Who, Fda, Pfizer, Donald Trump, Anthony Fauci 127 people like this. Like The 11 most mind-blowing health discoveries and innovations of 2020December 22, 2020 at 1:40 PM United Parcel Service President of Global Healthcare, Wesley Wheeler, holds up a sample of the vial that will be used to transport the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a Senate Transportation subcommittee hybrid hearing on December 10, 2020, in Washington, DC.
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In 2020, scientists learned a lot about the coronavirus, developing several impressive new vaccines.
Striking innovations included a new treatment for peanut allergies, and a non-hormonal gel birth contr...Tags: Science, Cdc, Washington, White House, Boston, US, Trends, Features, Public Health, Healthcare, Food And Drug Administration, Who, Fda, Pfizer, Donald Trump, Anthony Fauci 98 people like this. Like Which coronavirus vaccine will you get?December 22, 2020 at 6:00 AM Ohio State employee Lauren Chisholm, left, receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination from Robert Weber
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Pfizer and Moderna's coronavirus vaccines are very similar in terms of how they were made, and their safety and efficacy, but seem to differ slightly in the severity of side effects and how they work in older populations.
Because Pfizer's needs to be stored at very cold temperatures, it will be distributed at larger institutions while Moderna's vaccine may be m...Tags: Science, Microsoft, California, US, Trends, Joe Biden, Chicago, United States, Bill Gates, Pfizer, Vaccine, Ohio State, Anthony Fauci, Jones, Andy Dunn, Mike Pence 143 people like this. Like Coronavirus vaccines don't contain microchips. Here's what's actually in the shots.December 21, 2020 at 3:41 PM A nurse prepares a coronavirus vaccine shot developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., July 2020.
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The coronavirus vaccine does not contain a microchip, contrary to a widely-shared conspiracy theory.
The false claim that says Bill Gates is plotting to use the vaccine to track people via microchip may have come from a Facebook video containing altered and out-of-context interviews.
The vaccine actually contains a tiny piece of genetic material encased in...Tags: Facebook, Usa, Science, Microsoft, Trends, Bill Gates, Fda, Pfizer, Vaccine, Conspiracy Theories, Anthony Fauci, Microchip, Gates, Reuters, CBN, Moderna 110 people like this. Like Photos show the first batches of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine being packaged and shipped across the USDecember 20, 2020 at 2:06 PM Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped.
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted an emergency use authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the biotech firm Moderna and the US National Institutes of Health.
The two-shot Moderna/NIH vaccine was approximately 94.5% effective at preventing COVID-19 in a large clinical trial.
The FDA last week issued the same authorization for the vaccine created by Pfizer and Bio...Tags: News, Mississippi, US, Trends, Joe Biden, Healthcare, Fda, Pfizer, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, McKesson, US Food and Drug Administration, Vivek Murthy, US National Institutes of Health, Olive Branch Mississippi, Moderna, Andrew Dunn 79 people like this. Like At least 4 people have had allergic reactions after Pfizer's vaccine, among hundreds of thousands who've been vaccinated. Here's what we know.December 18, 2020 at 8:15 AM MARK LENNIHAN/POOL/AFP/Getty
Hundreds of thousands of healthcare workers across the US and UK are beginning to get Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine.
So far, there have been at least 4 reports of non life-threatening allergic reactions, shortly after people got their first shots.
2 allergic reactions happened in the UK last week, and 2 more were recorded at an Alaska hospital this week.
It's still not clear what's causing the reactions.
The FDA says people should only refrain from vaccination if ...Tags: UK, Science, Cdc, New York City, US, Trends, Public Health, Alaska, Healthcare, National Health Service, Bill De Blasio, Fda, Pfizer, Allergies, Juneau, US Food and Drug Administration 68 people like this. Like Moderna is on the cusp of getting its COVID-19 vaccine authorizedDecember 18, 2020 at 9:55 AM Welcome to Business Insider's daily healthcare newsletter, your daily dose of pharma, biotech, and healthcare news. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday.
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Hi,Happy Friday! In a sign that it's been quite a long week (two weeks, really), I'm so sorry for sending an energy-focused newsletter to you earlier this morning. (Though if you are interested in more energy reporting, do subscribe to Benji Jones' newsletter Insider Energy he...Tags: Amazon, UK, New York, Minnesota, Washington, US, Trends, Healthcare, Oscar, Food And Drug Administration, Berkshire Hathaway, Michigan, Fda, Pfizer, Vaccine, Dodge 71 people like this. Like FDA expert panel endorses Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, clearing the way for regulators to green-light the shotDecember 17, 2020 at 5:00 PM Moderna; Samantha Lee/Business Insider
An influential Food and Drug Administration expert panel voted Thursday in favor of authorizing Moderna's coronavirus vaccine.
The FDA isn't required to follow the group's advice but often does so. The agency could OK Moderna's shot on Friday, according to media reports.
Twenty of the 21 committee members voted yes, and one panelist abstained.
If the vaccine gets the FDA's regulatory go-ahead, the government plans to ship 5.9 million doses of Modern...Tags: UK, Science, News, Cdc, Stanford, US, Trends, Data, Features, Alaska, Healthcare, Food And Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, Fda, University of Pennsylvania, Pfizer 93 people like this. Like FDA expert panel endorses Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, clearing the way for regulators to greenlight the shotDecember 17, 2020 at 5:00 PM Moderna; Samantha Lee/Business Insider
An influential FDA expert panel voted Thursday in favor of authorizing Moderna's coronavirus vaccine.
The US Food and Drug Administration isn't required to follow the group's advice, but often does so. The agency could OK Moderna's shot on Friday, according to media reports.
Twenty of the 21 committee members voted yes, and one panelist abstained.
If the vaccine gets the FDA's regulatory go-ahead, the government plans to ship 5.9 million doses of M...Tags: UK, Science, News, Cdc, Stanford, US, Trends, Data, Features, Alaska, New York Times, Healthcare, Fda, University of Pennsylvania, Pfizer, Biotech 87 people like this. Like LIVE: An FDA expert panel is meeting today to discuss Moderna's coronavirus vaccine, likely paving the way for the 2nd authorized COVID-19 shot in the USDecember 17, 2020 at 8:57 AM Moderna; Samantha Lee/Business Insider
An influential expert panel is meeting Thursday to vote on authorizing Moderna's coronavirus vaccine.
By the end of the day, the committee will vote on whether or not to recommend emergency use authorization.
The US Food and Drug Administration isn't required to follow the group's advice, but often does so. The agency could OK Moderna's shot as soon as Thursday night or Friday, according to media reports.
Healthcare and science reporters Andrew Dunn...Tags: Science, News, Stanford, US, Trends, Features, Live, Healthcare, Fda, Pfizer, Biotech, Committee, Miller, US Food and Drug Administration, Jacqueline Miller, Zaks 122 people like this. Like Coronavirus vaccines, comparedDecember 17, 2020 at 9:11 AM Welcome to Business Insider's daily healthcare newsletter, your daily dose of pharma, biotech, and healthcare news. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday.
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Hello,Phew, what a week it's been! It's Thursday, which means it's time for another FDA advisory committee meeting, this time on Moderna's vaccine. We'll keep you posted on how the day unfolds.An event to get on your calendar: On Friday at 1 p.m. ET I'll be chatting with healt...Tags: Amazon, Texas, US, Trends, Healthcare, Fda, Pfizer, Vaccine, Cvs, Cuomo, Health And Human Services, Toronto Canada, CVS Health, Moderna, Azar, Noam Galai 123 people like this. Like Trump administration appointee at HHS pushed a strategy of young, healthy people getting infected with COVID-19 to 'develop immunity and help stop the spread'December 16, 2020 at 2:06 PM Jeffrey Basinger/Newsday via Getty Images
Paul Alexander, a former top science advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services, pushed for a strategy of infecting as many young people as possible to reach "herd immunity" against COVID-19.
A number of Alexander's emails outlining the idea were recently obtained by the House of Representatives and first reported by Politico. Alexander left the agency in September.
"Infants, kids, teens, young people, young adults, middle aged with ...Tags: Politics, Science, Politico, New York City, Trends, Getty Images, United States, House, House Of Representatives, Food And Drug Administration, Fda, Pfizer, Anthony Fauci, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, Committee, Trump 96 people like this. Like The first people in the US got COVID-19 shotsDecember 15, 2020 at 8:44 AM Welcome to Business Insider's daily healthcare newsletter, your daily dose of pharma, biotech, and healthcare news. Subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every weekday.
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Hello,On Tuesday morning, the Food and Drug Administration released documents related to its review of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine. They show that Moderna's vaccine is highly effective at preventing people from getting COVID-19, similar to the Pfizer-BioNTech shot. The docum...Tags: New York, New York City, US, Trends, Caesars Entertainment, Atlantic, Healthcare, Food And Drug Administration, Fda, Pfizer, Vaccine, Andrew Cuomo, Defense Department, Periscope, Aetna, Gary Loveman 143 people like this. Like One chart shows how effective Moderna's vaccine is at preventing people from getting COVID-19December 15, 2020 at 9:25 AM Nurse Kath Olmstead, right, gives volunteer Melissa Harting an injection as part of a COVID-19 vaccine trial, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., on July 27, 2020.
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The Food and Drug Administration released data about Moderna's coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday.
The FDA data suggests the company's two-shot course works very well to prevent COVID-19 infections.
If authorized by the FDA, Moderna's shot would become the US's second coronavirus vaccine....Tags: Science, US, America, Trends, Public Health, Healthcare, Food And Drug Administration, Fda, Pfizer, US Food and Drug Administration, New York Times Read, EUA, Moderna, Hans Pennink, Hilary Brueck, Coronavirus 85 people like this. Like Watch an ICU nurse from New York City receive the first COVID-19 vaccine in the USDecember 14, 2020 at 10:20 AM The first Pfizer vaccine in New York went to Sandra Lindsay, a nurse who works in Queens, on Monday. Gov. Andrew Cuomo livestreamed the vaccination.
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The first person to be publicly vaccinated against the coronavirus in the US was an intensive-care-unit nurse from Queens, New York.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo livestreamed the event on Periscope on Monday.
"I feel like healing is coming," the nurse, Sandra Lindsay, said after she got her first shot. "I hope t...Tags: New York, Science, News, Cdc, New York City, US, Trends, Public Health, Canada, Queens, Pfizer, Andrew Cuomo, Donald Trump, Anthony Fauci, Periscope, Donald J Trump 145 people like this. Like Top US officials could be offered the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Monday, but Trump said he'd wait to receive it until the 'appropriate time'December 13, 2020 at 11:05 PM President Donald Trump on Sunday seemed to back away from the idea that top government officials would largely be among those first in line for a coronavirus vaccine.
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President Donald Trump tweeted Sunday night that he'd wait until the "appropriate time" to receive a coronavirus vaccine.
His tweet, in which he also said White House staff members would be vaccinated "somewhat later in the program," came after reports indicated top US government off...Tags: Science, White House, US, Trends, Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Getty Images, United States, Bill Clinton, Food And Drug Administration, Michigan, Fda, Pfizer, National Security Council, Vaccine, Donald Trump 81 people like this. Like Top US officials could be offered the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Monday, but Trump said he will wait to receive it until the 'appropriate time'December 13, 2020 at 11:05 PM The vaccine will be offered to Trump and other officials deemed essential to avoid a government disruption.
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President Donald Trump and other top US officials could receive the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as Monday, but the president has said he will wait to receive it until the "appropriate time."
It is not clear when President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will have access to the shots.
The Food and Drug Administration grant...Tags: Science, White House, US, Trends, Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Getty Images, United States, Bill Clinton, Food And Drug Administration, Michigan, Pfizer, National Security Council, Vaccine, Donald Trump, Centers For Disease Control And Prevention 83 people like this. Like |