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At highest risk and the ones who got vaccinated earliest. so, theres going to be time to work through this in the weeks ahead. >> dr. mark mcclellan. thank you very much. well be right back with the handoff. dry eye symptoms driving you crazy? inflammation might be to blame. inflammation: time for ache and burn! over the counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief. inflammation: thosell probably pass by me! xiidra works differently, targeting inflam...

AUSTIN -- School districts, local officials and hospitals are pushing back on Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order barring mask and vaccine mandates, setting...

Conscience of the country. im told this would have been a primetime speech had it not been for the olympics. this is a message they wanted to get out. even if people get shots, were talking six weeks before nip is fully vaccinated. so the combination of the federal workforce, also the military, a very key point today, urging his defense secretary to study this. the question is, is anyone still listening to him at all? perhaps the delta variant is the biggest argument of all that people might be ...

Nursing homes could remain a proving ground for valuable COVID-19 therapeutics, former CMS Administrator Mark McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., said during a recent technology conference.

Transmissible than the uk variant which was more transmissible than the version of the virus we were dealing with last year and theres also some concern that it may be more dangerous as well. >> reporter: good news for j&js single dose vaccine, the fda just said it can be stored for four and a half months, thats six weeks longer than previously allowed. the news comes days after ohio warned some 200,000 j&j shots would soon expire. one other note on that johnson & johnson vaccine, former fda com...

Olds. pfizers eua was expanded for 12 to 15 year olds late last month, about a quarter of that age group has now had at least one shot. >> susceptible -- >> reporter: more than half the residents in these eight states are now fully vaccinated. nationwide its just over 42%. >> we knew it was going to get harder as this effort went on but one thing we have learned more clearly than anything else is that this vaccination effort will moved at the speed of trust. >> reporter: trust with dose of incen...

The US Food and Drug Administration authorized an extension of the shelf life of Johnson & Johnsons Covid-19 vaccine, the company said in a statement Thursday. The move increases the refrigerated storage time for the vaccine from 3 months to 4 1/2 months, and comes as some states said currently available doses were set to expire at the end of this month, potentially before being used. "The decision is based on data from ongoing stability assessment studies, which have demonstrated that the vacc...

The US Food and Drug Administration authorized an extension of the shelf life of Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine, the company said in a statement Thursd...

Narratives about the pandemic are allowed, the world will be woefully ill-prepared for the next virus. >> this has been such an all-encompassing pandemic. some things have gone well. we were just talking about how effective the vaccines that the u.s. government backed and the last administration and this one have turned out to be. some things have gone not so well, detecting cases early and so forth. this is not a partisan issue. this is the biggest public health emergency we faced in a century,...

Range of billions of doses and on top of that, as elizabeth said, we can get the vaccines to countries where they are needed but just as in the united states, there are challenges in getting from there, the vaccines out into peoples arms and overcoming issues like confidence and hesitancy around the vaccines. still a lot of work to do there around the world. so this is a first step and hopefully the g7 meeting thats taking place now can add to it. >> so there are also, on top of this donation of...