Publishing date: Dec 17, 2020 • December 17, 2020 • 3 minute read •
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A panel of outside advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday overwhelmingly endorsed emergency use of Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine, virtually assuring a second option for protecting against COVID-19 for a pandemic ravaged nation.
The committee voted 20-0 with one abstention that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh its risks in people aged 18 and older, one week after the same panel backed a similar vaccine from Pfizer Inc and German partner BioNTech SE, leading to an FDA emergency use authorization (EUA) a day later.
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FDA says Pfizer vaccine contains extra doses, expanding nation s supply
Fenit Nirappil, The Washington Post
Dec. 16, 2020
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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks at George Washington University Hospital after the administration of some of the nation s first doses of a vaccine to frontline healthcare workers there on Dec. 14, 2020, in Washington, D.C.Photo for The Washington Post by Jahi Chikwendiu
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that pharmacists can draw additional doses from vials of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, potentially expanding the country s supply by millions of doses as the Trump administration negotiates with Pfizer to speed up the next round of vaccine deliveries.
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Snow Continues To Fall On Northeast US, Days After Vaccinations Begin
A plow clears the tracks at Needham Junction station on Dec. 17, 2020
Sean Corcoran / GBH News
December 17, 2020
Snow continued to fall Thursday during a key period in the coronavirus pandemic, days after the start of the U.S. vaccination campaign and in the thick of a virus surge that has throngs of people seeking tests daily.
Snow fell from northern Virginia to parts of New England on Wednesday. It carried on north into the evening, sustaining a storm that was poised to drop as much as 2 feet (0.6 meters) of snow in some places by Thursday.