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Tool tells when you may be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine ABCNews With the U.S Food and Drug Administration authorizing the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine and likely authorization of Moderna's on the horizon, the first vaccines are being delivered to medical providers and long-term care facilities in states across the country and starting to be administered this week. But most people won't be able to get a shot right away. Many states are prioritizing groups such as health care and other essential workers, nursing home residents and people with certain medical conditions when it comes to ...

The Vaccine Tool Calculator was developed by Adriane Labs and the Surgo Foundation Users are asked to enter which state and county they live in, what their age is, what job they have and if they have any pre-existing conditions The tool reveals how many people are head of the user in their city and state and how many Americans are in their priority group It comes as Biden's nominee for surgeon general Dr Vivek Murthy says he doesn't believe the U.S. general public will receive vaccines before summer 2021  After healthcare workers and long-term care residents, the CDC advisory panel has vote...

Roy Exum: Yarbro Adds 'Nothing' Thursday, December 17, 2020 - by Roy Exum Roy Exum I am as sorry as I can be that the State of Tennessee now ranks No. 2 in the nation as the coronavirus has reached record stages. I am also among those who are praying most fervently for God’s mercy and grace as we fight to endure this epic pandemic. But my prayer is also one that implores the Master to never allow me to fall into the midst of the Legion of the Miserable. The Legion has never done one thing, not in the history of the world, except to promote anguish and, among this week’s most deplora...

How can the world allocate COVID-19 vaccines fairly? It’s an ethical question many Penn experts are contemplating. One fact is certain, they say: Distribution must not exacerbate disparities and inequities in health care. On Dec. 11, the FDA granted an Emergency Use Authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, with similar authorization for the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine coming a week later. Frontline health care workers across the United States, including at the hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania Health Syst...

Updated on December 21, 2020 at 5:36 pm NBC Universal, Inc. What to Know A nationwide vaccination effort entered its third day Wednesday, with nurses and doctors primarily receiving the first doses. Federal health officials have designed a four-phase inoculation strategy, which is outlined below. It will be months, not weeks, before the COVID-19 vaccine is available to the general public. Putting an exact timeframe for vaccinating the entire population of the United States -- the third-largest country by population in the world -- is "tricky," as one doctor said this week, noting that he is t...