The New York Times, Dr. Kerry Kennedy Meltzer, an internal medicine resident physician at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, wrote that her uncle is sharing incorrect information about the vaccines now being administered across the country.
“As a doctor, and as a member of the Kennedy family, I feel I must use whatever small platform I have to state a few things unequivocally,” Kennedy Meltzer, the daughter of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the sister of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., wrote. “I love my uncle Bobby. I admire him for many reasons, chief among them his decades-long fight for a cleaner environment. But when it comes to vaccines, he is wrong.”
Encourage skeptical Black Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine
Health care professionals should understand Black peopleâs hesitation to take the COVID-19 vaccine goes way beyond the horrid US government experiment in Tuskegee, Ala.
By Ed Gaskin and Liz WalkerUpdated December 29, 2020, 3:00 a.m.
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US Surgeon General Jerome Adams receives the COVID-19 vaccine in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C., on December 18.SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images
Following a televised event earlier this month where Vice President Mike Pence and Surgeon General Jerome M. Adams were administered the COVID-19 vaccine, Adams said, âIt would truly be the greatest tragedy of all if disparities in COVID outcomes actually worsened because the people who would most benefit from the vaccine canât get it or wonât take it.â
‘This is about saving lives’: Vice President-elect Kamala Harris receives COVID vaccine on live TV
Updated Dec 29, 2020;
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on Tuesday morning received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on live television, urging Americans to trust not only the scientists who researched and produced the vaccines but frontline health care providers in communities across the country.
“That was easy, I barely felt it,” a masked Harris told a nurse at United Medical Center in Washington, D.C., after rolling up her sleeve and receiving the shot. Harris received the vaccine distributed by Cambridge-based Moderna Inc. nearly a week after President-elect Joe Biden received the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine before a live TV audience.
State unveils online vaccine tracker
Boxes containing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. AP PHOTO/PAUL SANCYA
Published: 12/29/2020 1:23:41 PM
NORTHAMPTON After almost a year of publishing statistics on COVID-19 infection and deaths, the state has begun releasing a new, more hopeful report statistics regarding those who have been vaccinated against the virus.
Last Thursday, the state Department of Public Health released its first COVID-19 Vaccination Report, which will be published on a weekly basis. The report details how much vaccine the state has administered, basic information about who has been vaccinated, and how the doses are divided by county.
As of Dec. 24, the state has administered 35,524 first doses of the vaccine, according to the report. The two available vaccines by pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna require two doses, administered three and four weeks apart, respectively, to achieve maximum immunity. With vaccine rollout just beginning in recent wee
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