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“It's just human nature that people are more amenable to an oral medication.”

They were immigrants. And cousins. And both called Charles. Big handsome, hairy men from the southern plains of Germany. In 1848 they sailed for the new world and landed in New York. One of the cousins had borrowed money from his father. The other used his training as a confectioner to propel them into the exciting new world of chemicals. Their newly adopted nation of America lagged well behind Germany in the field of medicine and both men saw a very 19th century thing on the horizon: a hole in...

Attributes of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine make it better for distribution in rural Iowa Moderna vaccine at MercyOne hospital in Des Moines. Until Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine, Moderna’s vaccine does not have to be kept in ultra-cold storage and state officials say that means it’s being sent to rural Iowa locations. The first shipment of Moderna vaccine arrived in Iowa Monday. “All 99 counties are receiving an allocation of the Moderna vaccine in this first shipment,” Reynolds said, “a...

Word Count: 862 A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel gathered Thursday to consider issues including the safety of the shot from Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE, which employs a technology called messenger RNA that’s never before been used in human vaccines. The government is prepared with a safety monitoring system that will go into place the first day of the immunization campaign, said Nancy Messonnier, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for I...