Birx spoke out a year too late
Our View: During a recent interview, Birx said majority of COVID deaths could have been mitigated. During that critical time, she supported a failed message.
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The coordinator of the Trump administration s coronavirus response made a shocking revelation during a recent CNN interview many of the 550,000 Americans lives lost to the pandemic could have been saved with better leadership.
In other words, managing the response to the pandemic under President Donald Trump Dr. Deborah Birx s responsibility was a failure of historic proportions. I look at it this way, Birx, a renowned HIV researcher and diplomat, told CNN, The first time we have an excuse. There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original (coronavirus) surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially.
Study: Moderna COVID-19 vaccine offers protection for at least 6 months
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The COVID-19 vaccine made by Moderna produces an immune system response at least 6 months after the second dose of the two-dose shot is given, according to data published Tuesday. File Photo by Ian Halperin/UPI | License Photo
There s good news for the millions of Americans who ve already received a dose or two of Moderna s COVID-19 vaccine: New research shows the vaccine should protect against illness for at least six months.
The new study tracked 33 participants in the trials that led to the vaccine s approval. Six months after having received their second vaccine dose, antibody activity remained high in all age groups, according to a team led by Nicole Doria-Rose of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
March of the Living awards Dr. Anthony Fauci ‘Moral Courage in Medicine Award’
It is to be conferred during an online symposium to mark Yom Hashoah.
Former President Donald Trump, joined by Vice President Mike Pence, listen as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci delivers remarks during a coronavirus update briefing on April 16, 2020, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House. Credit: Official White House Photo by Andrea Hanks.
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(April 6, 2021 / JNS) To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, which this year begins on the evening of April 7, International March of the Living, together with the Maimonides Institute for Ethics and the Holocaust, the Miller Center at Rutgers University, the USC Shoah Foundation and Teva Pharmaceuticals will be holding hold an online symposium on “Medicine and Morality: Lessons from the Holocaust and COVID-19.”