Karen Freedman has no concerns about taking a coronavirus vaccine, in fact, she says she is looking forward to it.
Her father died of COVID-19 in April after contracting the disease in a nursing home, and although she complies with social distancing and mask-wearing guidelines in her hometown in South Carolina, Freedman worries about contracting the virus. The 54-year-old social worker says a vaccine would enable her to finally resume activities halted by lockdowns, like going to the local swimming pool.
“I think it’s vital and essential,” Freedman says. “I am so for taking the vaccine, to me, it’s common sense, it’s obvious.”
Air Cargo Future Full of Presents
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are loaded onto a truck for shipping at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant in Portage, Michigan on Sunday, December 13, 2020. Right now ten FedEx B777 freighters are equipped with special rails for military pallets. The movement for a second dose of vaccine to combat the COVID-19 pandemic will go through the first quarter of 2021. Syringes are being flown in from China. Rubber gloves from Vietnam. “The vaccine is liquid gold and everybody in the world wants it at once,” declared Bill Boesch, President of Council of Logistics Research. Mr. Boesch, as has been the case for
US vaccinations ramp up as 2nd COVID-19 shot nears
The Food and Drug Administration said its preliminary analysis confirmed the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine developed by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health
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Hundreds more hospitals around the country began dispensing COVID-19 shots to their workers in a rapid expansion of the U.S. vaccination drive Tuesday, while a second vaccine moved to the cusp of government authorization.
A day after the rollout of Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus shots, the Food and Drug Administration said its preliminary analysis confirmed the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine developed by Moderna and the National Institutes of Health. A panel of outside experts is expected to recommend the formula on Thursday, with the FDA’s green light coming soon thereafter.
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Health Minister Yuli Edelstein gives a press conference at a coronavirus vaccine center in Tel Aviv on December 13, 2020. The slogan behind him reads: Here, we re beating coronavirus. At right is Maccabi health fund head Ran Saar. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90/Pool)
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Wednesday criticized Israelis who spread fake news and unverified claims about coronavirus vaccines, saying it could cause people to die if they take their advice and refuse to vaccinate.
At a briefing at the Knesset Labor, Welfare and Health Committee, Edelstein said he didn’t have any worries regarding the safety of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
In Florida, government officials expect to have 100,000 doses of the vaccine by Tuesday at five hospitals across the state. This is 20,000 doses of hope, said John Couris, president and chief executive officer, Tampa General Hospital, after the delivery of 3900 vaccine vials on Monday. Each vial has five doses.
Because the vaccine requires two rounds, the people getting injections now will need a second shot in about three weeks.
In this July 27, 2020, file photo, nurse Kathe Olmstead prepares a shot that is part of a possible COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc. Moderna said on November 16, 2020, its COVID-19 shot provides strong protection against the coronavirus surging around the world. (AP)