US COVID-19 Immunization Rollout Expands, Officials Avow Vaccine s Safety US COVID-19 Immunization Rollout Expands, Officials Avow Vaccine s Safety Political leaders and medical authorities have launched a two-pronged media blitz avowing the safety of the vaccines
Initial doses have been earmarked for doctors, nurses and other front-line medical professionals.
NEWARK, New Jersey:
The United States expanded its rollout of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine to hundreds of additional distribution centers on Tuesday, inoculating thousands more healthcare workers in a mass immunization expected to reach the general public in the coming months.
Distribution of the vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE began on Monday, three days after it won U.S. emergency-use authorization, opening a new front in the battle against a pandemic claiming more than 2,400 U.S. lives a day.
When will other coronavirus vaccines in the pipeline come to N.J.?
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
She received her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine, the first to receive Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
But the Pfizer vaccine isn’t the only one in development, and there’s a good chance that as more vaccines become available to the general population, you may receive a different type.
There are several different vaccines in development.
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But the two vaccines that have gotten the most attention recently Pfizer and Moderna are both mRNA vaccines.
“They teach our cells how to make a protein or even just a piece of a protein that triggers an immune response inside our bodies,” the CDC said. “That immune response, which produces antibodies, is what protects us from getting infected if the real virus enters our bodies.”
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FILE PHOTO: Five doses of COVID-19 vaccine is held by SPC Angel Laureano at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., December 14, 2020. Manuel Balce Ceneta/Pool via REUTERS
NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) – The United States expanded its rollout of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine to hundreds of additional distribution centers on Tuesday, inoculating thousands more healthcare workers in a mass immunization expected to reach the general public in the coming months.
Distribution of the vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE began on Monday, three days after it won U.S. emergency-use authorization, opening a new front in the battle against a pandemic claiming more than 2,400 U.S. lives a day.
$10K reward offered for info in fatal shooting of 18-year-old in Newark
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
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Police have offered a reward for information leading to the killer of a Bergen County 18-year-old who was shot to death last week while riding in a vehicle in Newark.
McKayla Perri, of Lyndhurst, was shot about 10:25 p.m. Friday on Broad Street near the intersection of Third Avenue, according to acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II.
Perri was taken to University Hospital in Newark, where she died shortly before 2 a.m. on Saturday, the prosecutor said.
Investigators said Perri was in the passenger seat of a white Jeep Wrangler when “a bullet struck the vehicle, ultimately causing her death.”