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To Speed Vaccination, Some Call for Delaying Second Shots Stretching the time between the first and second doses would greatly accelerate the rate at which people get at least partial protection. But some experts fear it could also lead to new variants. People without appointments waited outside a mass Covid vaccination site in Hagerstown, Md., this week.Credit...Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images April 9, 2021Updated 6:16 p.m. ET The prospect of a fourth wave of the coronavirus, with new cases clim...

This Viewpoint proposes ways to maximize vaccine efficacy and allocation given the rise of coronavirus variants and authorization of a Johnson & Johnson vaccine, including reserving the latter for younger healthier populations, boosting it with a single-dose messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccination and single mRNA immunization of people with prior documented SARS-CoV-2 infection.

This Viewpoint proposes ways to maximize vaccine efficacy and allocation given the rise of coronavirus variants and authorization of a Johnson & Johnson vac

Why the mutated coronavirus variants are so worrisome Jason Gale, Bloomberg FacebookTwitterEmail Discarded syringes in a biohazard waste container at the Lux Med oncology hospital in Warszawa, Poland, on Feb. 25, 2021.Bloomberg photo by Lukasz Sokol. Viruses mutate all the time, including the coronavirus thats caused the global covid-19 pandemic. Although most of the changes are innocuous, several mutants have sparked alarm, and three variants that emerged in the U.K., South Africa and Brazil ...

As the vaccine rollout continues across America, families are wondering when their children will be eligible for inoculation against COVID-19. Dr. Juan Salazar, M.D, physician-in-chief at the Connecticut Childrens Medical Center...

Viruses mutate all the time, including the novel coronavirus thats caused the global covid-19 pandemic. Most of the changes have no apparent effect, but recent variants that have emerged in the U.K., South Africa and Brazil are causing particular concern.

County Assessor John P. Moore submitted a letter Monday to Dawson County Commissioners announcing his retirement from office effective April 30. Moore has been the Dawson County Assessor for 35 years. Elected in 1984 he assumed his post in January of 1985. Commissioners and other county officials at the meeting or ... PLEASE LOG IN FOR PREMIUM CONTENT. Our website requires visitors to log in to view the best local news. Not yet a subscriber? Subscribe today!

 E-Mail IMAGE: Under FDA emergency-use authorization, doctors successfully resolved COVID-19 in a seriously ill, immunodeficient woman using a very high-neutralizing antibody-titer convalescent plasma from a recovered COVID-19 patient. However, further study suggested... view more  Credit: UAB BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A 72-year-old woman was hospitalized with severe COVID-19 disease, 33 days after the onset of symptoms. She was suffering a prolonged deteriorating illness, with severe pneumo...

John P. Moore warns that delaying administration of the second Covid-19 vaccine dose has little support in available data and could have consequences beyond the danger to public health from compromised immunity. "Would confidence in the vaccine be reduced by multiple reports of vaccine failures among at-risk individuals?"

Covid-19: F.D.A. Clears Pfizer Vaccine and Millions of Doses Will Be Shipped Right Away Last Updated Dec. 15, 2020, 8:22 a.m. ETDec. 15, 2020, 8:22 a.m. ET The accelerated timeline comes after President Trump’s chief of staff threatened the F.D.A. head’s job if he didn’t get it done on Friday. The Trump Administration will buy another 100 million doses of Moderna vaccine. This briefing has ended. Freezer units at a United Parcel Service center await shipments of Covid-19 vaccines.Credit...