A second vaccine can’t come soon enough as the country’s daily death count continues to top 2,400 amid over 210,000 new daily cases, based on weekly averages of data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. The devastating toll is only expected to grow in coming weeks, fueled by holiday travel, family gatherings and lax adherence to basic public health measures.
The first vaccine deliveries have provided a measure of encouragement to exhausted doctors, nurses and hospital staffers around the country.
Johnnie Peoples, a 43-year-old survival flight nurse, was excited and a little nervous Monday afternoon as he unzipped his flight suit and stuck out his left arm to become the first person to receive the vaccine at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor.
US vaccinations ramp up as 2nd COVID-19 shot nears
Moderna’s vaccine on cusp of approval By MATTHEW PERRONE | December 14, 2020 at 11:26 PM CST - Updated December 15 at 5:55 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) 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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FDA published a review of data on Moderna s coronavirus vaccine on Tuesday
They confirmed it is 94% effective at preventing COVID-19 and prevents severe infection
FDA regulators will meet about the vaccine on Thursday and could approve it by Friday
It comes just a day after the first U.S. doses of Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine - the first to get emergency approval in the US - were doled out on Monday
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