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There s a lot of false information out there about the two leading COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S. We wanted to provide the facts and answer some questions.
I’m not a doctor but know a few, so we asked: How effective is the vaccine? These vaccines are highly effective. Both studies have shown over 90 percent effectiveness, which is phenomenal because we only really expected 50-60 percent, said Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo Davis, an infectious diseases physician with Washington University School of Medicine. The report put out by Pfizer, in the data that s included in the EUA for the FDA, is a 95% efficacy. There is protection after the first dose and then maximum protection after the second dose, which is 21 days later, said Dr. Khalilah Gates, a pulmonary care specialist with Northwestern Medicine.
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Researchers at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis are conducting discussion groups with parents and staff in the Special School District of St. Louis County (SSD) to develop communication tools surrounding COVID-19 testing and vaccination.
The research is funded by a two-year $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to the Washington University School of Medicine to offer 50,000 saliva tests to students, teachers and staff in the six special education schools operated by the district. Read more about the testing and the disproportionate impact the pandemic has on students with special needs.
The Brown School’s role will be to assess the perspectives of parents and school staff to develop messaging that can encourage participation in regular testing and overcome barriers to it.
Doctors say BJC prioritizing older employees for COVID-19 vaccine, not frontline workers
“A 30-year-old nurse who has not been vaccinated still must work on the COVID floor while an administrator is getting a vaccine, one doctor said. Author: Christine Byers (KSDK), Rhyan Henson Published: 7:28 PM CST December 19, 2020 Updated: 7:34 PM CST December 19, 2020
ST. LOUIS Doctors at Barnes Jewish Hospital tell 5 On Your Side the hospital’s administration is vaccinating its staff according to age, and not putting frontline workers first.
The policy which differs from SSM and Mercy’s plan means some doctors, residents, nurses, respiratory therapists and emergency room physicians who treat COVID-19 patients have been told they won’t be vaccinated until the end of January.
Spencer Platt via Getty Images This is not the first time that people close to me have discounted my expertise. . But this is the first time it’s felt like a matter of life or death.
Like many of you, Iâve been having COVID-19 nightmares. The general theme is always the same. In my dream, Iâm somehow exposed to the coronavirus, either because Iâm put in a risky situation I canât avoid, like being in a hospital, or because Iâm around others who arenât taking precautions. Either way, thereâs always a 10-second, anxiety-filled gap between when I wake up and when I realize it was just a dream. A wave of relief comes over me. I wasnât actually exposed. Iâm still safe.
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