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Print As roughly 4,000 Americans die each day from COVID-19, public health and medical experts are aghast that the vaccines that could save them remain beyond reach — due to multiple governmental failures involving planning, coordination and public communication. “Many people are eager to get the vaccine, and they want to know when and where they are going to get it,” said Dr. Eric Toner, a senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. “For the most part, people at the local level don’t know, and people at the state level are still trying to figure it out.” C...

Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Research Institute have promising new data indicating their vaccine will work against significant mutations of COVID-19, as well as entirely different coronaviruses, an achievement that other vaccines so far have not accomplished.

Californians paying price for chaotic rollout of coronavirus vaccine, experts say Maura Dolan © Provided by The LA Times Health experts are concerned with the chaotic rollout of the vaccine. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times) As roughly 4,000 Americans die each day from COVID-19, public health and medical experts are aghast that the vaccines that could save them remain beyond reach — due to multiple governmental failures involving planning, coordination and public communication. "Many people are eager to get the vaccine, and they want to know when and where they are go...

Print this article Federal and state governments must increase the number of healthcare workers qualified to administer vaccine doses in order to achieve the widespread immunity needed to end the pandemic, public health experts say, or else millions of shots could go to waste. “In a few months from now, I do suspect that we'll be able to vaccinate a couple million people per day, but … we have to have the personnel,” said Dr. Eric Toner, chief scientist at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Health Security. “Doing it in the hospitals has been the easy part. It'll get more compl...

D.C. coronavirus cases reached an all-time high on Monday. And it may be too early to say what impact the insurrection will have on cases.