U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that China's lack of transparency and action had left the United States "flying blind" and compromised its early response to the CCP virus.
The newest timeline for Michigan, released by the MDHHS on Wednesday, Jan. 13, sees a delay in the originally planned schedule, pushing the last prioritization group, everyone aged 16 and up without high-risk health conditions, toward the end of 2021.
UCSF professor of pedriatics, epidemiology, and biostatistics, and former FDA head Dr. David Kessler will be President-elect Joe Biden's chief science officer of COVID response in charge of vaccine science.
New Jersey is prioritising cigarette smokers for Covid-19 vaccines because of risk of severe disease Jan 15, 2021, 06:55 AM
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New Jersey announced Thursday it would start vaccinating people age 65 and older and people with underlying health conditions against the coronavirus.
One of those health conditions that now bumps New Jerseyans to the front of the line is smoking.
Only people age 75 and older and essential workers were recommended to be next in line, but US officials recently urged states to expand eligibility.
Officials are scrambling to speed-up Covid-19 vaccinations across the US, but a complicated set of guidelines regarding who should get priority have stymied states efforts to maximise the number of shots in arms.