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Moving scenes show the first coronavirus vaccine in the US being administered to healthcare workers across the country
Moving scenes show the first coronavirus vaccine in the US being administered to healthcare workers across the countryhttps://www.businessinsider.in/science/news/moving-scenes-show-the-first-coronavirus-vaccine-in-the-us-being-administered-to-healthcare-workers-across-the-country/slidelist/79776239.cms2020-12-17T14:22:46+05:30
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Moving scenes show the first coronavirus vaccine in the US being administered to healthcare workers across the country
Lauren FriasDec 17, 2020, 14:22 IST
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Healthcare workers administered shots to their colleagues across the nation this week, beginning the next long-awaited phase of the pandemic since it began in March.
Vincent Kalut / Photonews via Getty Images
Healthcare workers administered shots to their colleagues across the nation this week, beginning the next long-awaited phase of the pandemic since it began in March.
The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last Friday, and the first batches of the vaccine rolled out earlier this week.
The vaccine is said to be 95% effective, experts said.
The first US coronavirus vaccine rolled out across the country this week in record time.
The Food and Drug Administration gave emergency use approval to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine last Friday. The vaccine is said to be 95% effective, experts said. Batches of the vaccine were packaged and rolled out overnight on Sunday, and healthcare workers on the front lines were among the first to receive the shot.
December 17, 2020 at 5:19 am
Joseph B. Gipson, an environmental services worker, gives a thumbs up before receiving a COVID-19 vaccine at the University Of Washington Medical Center on December 15, 2020 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images)
With the first COVID-19 vaccine doses in Washington administered to frontline medical workers on Tuesday, Harborview Medical Center’s Director of Infection Control Dr. John Lynch believes we’re looking at a truly historic moment in time that spells the beginning of the end of the pandemic.
UW Medicine has already received roughly 3,900 doses of Pfizer’s vaccine, and will soon be widely distributing it to health care workers at Harborview, Valley Medical Center, and a pair of UW Medical Center campuses.
SUO 2020: Optimizing Management of High Risk Non-Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer – Case Based Discussion
(UroToday.com) The plenary session of the last day of the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Society of Urologic Oncology (SUO) began with a panel discussion stepping through the case of a patient with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer.
Dr. Sima Porten, the moderator, introduced the case: a 60-year-old otherwise healthy male with high-volume high-grade Ta urothelial carcinoma of the bladder diagnosed on an initial transurethral resection (TUR) with no muscle in the initial specimen.
The panel first addressed the question of perioperative chemotherapy for this patient. There was immediate resounding consensus that, based on the results of SWOG S0337
Congress is close to finalizing a year-end $900 billion stimulus deal: It looks like the compromise is expected provide a new round of [~$600] direct payments to millions of Americans as well as additional unemployment benefits [~$300/week], food assistance and rental aid. It would prop up sputtering businesses with federally backed loans and provide funding for schools, hospitals and the distribution of a just-approved vaccine, reports the
New York Times.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has noted that Georgia incumbent senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are getting hammered in their runoff elections for not providing another round of stimulus checks. The PR of Trump signing new checks could help their reelection chances. (That said, early voting in GA has already kicked off.) Seattle s Rep. Pramila Jayapal, co-chair of the Progressive Caucus, has made her stance on a potential stimulus package clear: