Moderna’s covid-19 vaccine could widen immunization effort
A Food and Drug Administration vaccine-advisory panel voted in favor of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine for broad distribution, clearing the way for the FDA to grant an emergency-use authorization for the second vaccine in the US
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Peter Loftus
, The Wall Street Journal
The vaccine can be more easily shipped and handled than Pfizer’s, helping smaller hospitals and rural areas overcome logistical hurdles
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Health officials across the US are counting on the arrival of a second Covid-19 vaccine to boost scarce supplies and sidestep logistical issues encountered by the first vaccine, which began distribution this week.
The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 1.3 % HIGHER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 5.6 %
HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 9.4 %
HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are at an elevated 196,295
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at an elevated 2,571
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at an elevated 113,929
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases improved, hospitalizations improved, and deaths worsened
Like much about the virus, exactly how much Thanksgiving gatherings spread it and why the effects seem to have varied so much from place to place remains unclear.
Crain s editorial: As a strange and mostly terrible year ends, there is a new hope
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This strange and mostly terrible year ends, ironically enough, with a measure of hope in the form of vaccines that, if all goes as planned, will help us return to something approaching normal life in 2021.
We don t usually find inspiration in the movement of FedEx and UPS trucks, but watching footage of vehicles taking the first doses of COVID-19 vaccines to hospitals across the country was immensely satisfying. And then seeing health care workers, who have borne so much of the trauma of 2020, start to receive the vaccine . well, that offered the kind of uplift that has been in short supply.
Feds need COVID-19 vaccine data to track safety and fairness but some skeptics fret about privacy
Dallas-area Rep. Lance Gooden stokes fear of mandatory federal registry and contact tracing, as governor and others work to dispel misinformation.
WASHINGTON As the White House celebrated the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and some lawmakers lined up for doses, one Texas congressman raised the specter of coercion that doesn’t exist and isn’t under discussion.
“Would you feel comfortable taking a COVID-19 vaccine if the federal government required registration and contact tracing in order to receive it,” freshman Rep. Lance Gooden, a Dallas-area Republican, asks constituents in an email newsletter.