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By Tessa Weinberg Missouri Independent Nestled in the pages of Missouri’s initial plan for how to distribute the coronavirus vaccine was a paragraph touting that “Missouri’s population understands the importance of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.” A month later, in a revised version of the report, the paragraph was gone.  Instead, the updated plan featured a new section that targeted how the state would combat misinformation, complete with a website promising a page dedicated to “myth ...

Anyone who wants a vaccine may be able to get one by sometime next summer. Enough people will get vaccinated that herd immunity will end the pandemic as safely and quickly as possible. This would be the ideal outcome for the end to a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 1.5 million people and sickened tens of millions worldwide. Expect something more complicated to unfold in real time. "People do have legitimate concerns about whether this is being done right and, of course, theres be...

It would appear that the people in American hit hardest by COVID-19 — Black people — are also the group most leery about the prospects of a vaccine. As a Pew Research report published last week pointed out: “Black Americans are especially likely to say they know someone who has been hospitalized or died as a result of having the coronavirus: 71% say this, compared with smaller shares of Hispanic (61%), white (49%) and Asian-American (48 %) adults.” But that same report conta...

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn to submit his resignation if the agency doesnt clear Pfizers coronavirus vaccine for emergency use by the end of the day Friday, according to multiple reports. The warning led the FDA to accelerate its timetable for clearing Americas first Covid-19 vaccine from Saturday morning to later Friday, according to the Washington Post, which cited anonymous sources. "This is an untrue representation of the phone call with the Ch...

Mercy Sister Natalie Rossi, a prison chaplain, prays with a Catholic inmate in solitary confinement at the State Correctional Institution for Women in Cambridge Springs, Pa., Jan. 12, 2007. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)  Every morning at 8 a.m., I confirm that my phone ringer is on and pray to receive an automated greeting call: Hello. This is a collect call from ___, an offender at Louisiana State Penitentiary. This call is being recorded and is subject to monitoring. To accept charges, press one. O...

Charles Blow: How Black people learned not to trust government and medical systems Durango, Colorado Currently Sat 45% chance of precipitation 45% chance of precipitation 5% chance of precipitation 2% chance of precipitation Friday, Dec. 11, 2020 5:33 AM Charles Blow Charles Blow Escuchar en Español: Loading the Español audio player... It would appear that the people in American hit hardest by COVID-19 – Black people – are also t...

My patients' fears about the vaccine are borne from the country's shameful medical history, writes Dr. Pamela Adelstein.

While she hasnt been told whether she got the actual vaccine during the trial, she had a bit of swelling in her arm after the booster shot — which makes her believe she did. Thats helped when patients ask her what to expect. "Some of the side effects were a little bit more robust the second time around, so I try and tell them exactly what I went through," she explained. It may take months for the general public to get inoculated with new vaccines once theyre approved. The Food and Drug Admini...

By Hans Bader | December 10, 2020 | 3:46pm EST Featured is the Department of Veterans Affairs seal. (Photo credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images) The Department of Veterans Affairs is going to give priority to black and Hispanic veterans over white and Asian veterans when administering the vaccine for COVID-19. This racial preference is unconstitutional. The VA is doing this because it thinks blacks and Hispanics are at greater risk. But these minoritie...

It would appear that the people in American hit hardest by COVID-19 — Black people — are also the group most leery about the prospects of a vaccine. As a Pew Research report published last week pointed out: “Black Americans are especially likely to say they know someone who has been hospitalized or died as a result of having the coronavirus: 71% say this, compared with smaller shares of Hispanic (61%), White (49%) and Asian-American (48 %) adults.” But that same report conta...