Miami archbishop gets COVID-19 vaccination
Dec 18, 2020 national correspondent
Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami receives the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 16, 2020, at St. John s Nursing Center for Care in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a part of Catholic Health Services of the Archdiocese of Miami. Archbishop Wenski said he is encouraging coronavirus vaccinations as morally ethical and a public good as the pandemic continues to rage. (Credit: Tom Tracy/Florida Catholic, via CNS.)
Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami joined hundreds of South Floridians Wednesday at St. John’s Nursing Center to become the first U.S. bishop to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
The Tablet December 17, 2020
WINDSOR TERRACE Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami joined a couple hundred South Floridians Wednesday at St. John’s Nursing Center to become the first U.S. Bishop to receive a COVID-19 vaccination.
Despite a lifelong fear of needles and injections, Archbishop Wenski said he got the vaccine to “lead by example.”
“I think it’s important for two reasons. To express confidence in the effectiveness of the vaccine, but also in the ethical acceptability of the vaccine,” he said. “There are still a lot of people nervous about it for many reasons.”
St. John’s is located near Fort Lauderdale, part of Catholic Health Services in the Archdiocese of Miami. Wednesday was the start of its vaccination campaign. There were just north of 200 people split between staff and residents that received the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, greenlit for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 11. Vaccinations started to be adm
Are Fetal Cells Used in COVID Vaccine? A Lafayette Doctor Answers
One question I am hearing from some of my friends is, Are fetal cells being used in the coronavirus vaccine?
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U.S. bishops urge vaccination, but avoid morally compromised vaccines if possible
Dec 15, 2020 national correspondent
LaShawn Scott, a nurse at University of Louisville Hospital, is inoculated with the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at the Louisville, Ky., health care facility Dec. 14, 2020. (Credit: Bryan Woolston/Reuters, via CNS.)
The U.S. bishops’ conference is encouraging Catholics to get a coronavirus vaccination because it’s a “moral responsibility for the common good,” even is some vaccines are connected to abortion-derived cell lines.
NEW YORK – The U.S. bishops’ conference is encouraging Catholics to get a coronavirus vaccination because it’s a “moral responsibility for the common good,” even if some vaccines are connected to abortion-derived cell lines.
December 13, 2020 AS SCIENTISTS and pharmaceutical companies in rich countries around the world are racing for the development and application of vaccine against the killer coronavirus disease (Covid-19), a Filipino Dominican priest-microbiologist based in the United States has also decided to make a vaccine that will be affordable and accessible to other middle to low income countries, including the Philippines.
“I thought about developing this vaccine when I realized that many of the available vaccines being manufactured today have already been promised to resource-rich countries,” said Father Nicanor Austriaco, chief researcher at Austriaco Laboratory.
Austriaco, who is associate professor of biology and theology at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, said his proposal is to create an oral Covid-19 vaccine using a probiotic yeast.