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Getting one COVID-19 shot does not make you immune to the coronavirus. Shots from Pfizer and Moderna are designed to be most effective starting 7 to 14 days
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"It's not a happy day when you have to get up in front of national TV and contradict" the president, Fauci said.
Sandra Lindsay didn't know she would be the first person in the US to receive a coronavirus vaccine outside clinical trials. She had volunteered to get the shot on the first day it was available, December 14, as a sign to communities of color that the vaccine was safe. "That was the goal today," Lindsay, director of critical care nursing at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, told the New York Times. "Not to be the first one to take the vaccine, but to inspire people who look like me, who are skeptical in general about taking vaccines." For many people of color — and Black Americans in p...
The new system is meant to get more shots in arms, but it could also punish states that lack the funding or resources to quickly administer doses.