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DETROIT/LOS ANGELES/NEW YORK (REUTERS) - The United States will recommend on Sunday (Dec 20) who will be next in line to get inoculated as the distribution of the second approved coronavirus vaccine began with shipments of Moderna Inc’s leaving warehouses for healthcare facilities across the country.  Companies and industry groups are lobbying to get their US  workers classified as essential, entitled to vaccines immediately after healthcare professionals and long-term care facility residents.  Inoculation against the disease is key to safely reopening large parts of the economy and redu...

Day after FDA nod, US advisory panel recommends Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for adults Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine was authorised for distribution and use under emergency use on December 18; eleven members of the committee, which comprises independent health experts, voted in favour of the vaccine and 0 members voted against BusinessToday.In | December 20, 2020 | Updated 11:41 IST The ACIP advises the CDC on the populations and circumstances for which vaccines should be used US biotech firm Moderna said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunisation Pr...

Last modified on Sun 20 Dec 2020 03.17 EST Women’s rights and breastfeeding organisations are challenging government and NHS guidance that the groups say forces mothers to choose between feeding their infants in the way that they choose and protecting themselves from Covid by being vaccinated. The NHS website advises lactating mothers to wait until they have stopped breastfeeding before having the Covid-19 vaccine. It adds: “There’s no evidence it’s unsafe if you’re pregnant or breastfeeding. But more evidence is needed before you can be offered the vaccine.” The UK government web...

PTI New York | Updated on December 18, 2020 × The group is scheduled to vote on the proposal on Sunday, one day after it discusses a vaccine made by Moderna The US Covid-19 vaccination campaign has begun, and the few available doses are mostly going into the arms of healthcare workers and nursing home residents. But what about in January, February and March, when more shots are expected to become available? Who should get those doses? A federal panel of vaccination experts takes up that question at an emergency meeting this weekend. No matter what the committee decides, there will be differe...

Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine, now FDA-approved, needs to be stored at minus 70 Celsius and health care providers will need to store it either in dry ice for shorter periods or in specialized freezers. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images (via NPR Illinoiso VI CONSORTIUM FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- The first of multiple COVID-19 vaccines arrived on St Croix, US Virgin Islands (USVI) today, December 14, 2020, the [US] VI Department of Health (DoH) has announced. During Governor Albert A. Bryan's weekly COVID-19 response update earlier in the day, it was a...