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Pfizer and Moderna change shipment sizes as coronavirus vaccine demand falls CNN 1 hr ago By Amanda Sealy, Nadia Kounang and Ryan Prior, CNN © Mark Makela/Getty Images A member of the U.S. armed forces administers a dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at a FEMA community vaccination center in this file photo taken in March in Philadelphia. With demand for Covid-19 vaccines falling off, mass vaccination sites around the country find themselves facing a dilemma of how to deliver vaccines without wasting precious doses. State and local leaders have been asking Covid-19 vacci...

New York City primary care doctors begin vaccinating patients against Covid-19 CNN 4/28/2021 © CNN Dr. Marlene Saint-Hilaire, right, vaccinates Venessa against Covid-19. New York is the latest state to allocate Covid-19 vaccine doses directly to primary care doctors as part of an initiative to reach people who may be reluctant to be inoculated. A group of primary care doctors in New York City vaccinated patients at their own offices for the first time Tuesday. Primary care doctors have not been included in a significant way in the early stages of most states' vaccine distribution plans...

Officials in Finney County in western Kansas continue to accept COVID-19 vaccine shipments and have held inoculation efforts like this one in Garden City. But elsewhere across rural Kansas, demand for COVID vaccines has declined since late March. Sixty-two counties skipped their vaccine allocations from the state this week. Photo credit David Condos/Kansas News Service. Even as Kansas remains far from reaching the coveted public health standard of herd immunity against COVID-19 — essentially starving off the virus because it runs out of vulnerable bodies — more than 60 cou...

These are the pro-vaccine messages people want to hear Frances Stead Sellers, Bonnie Berkowitz Vaccine Messaging - Topper Replay Video UP NEXT With all Americans over 16 now eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine, health-care workers and public health officials are turning their attention to the approximately one-third of Americans who say that they are on the fence or that they do not want to get vaccinated. No single message will persuade everyone, but experts say a combination of strategies is already convincing reluctant people that getting vaccinated is for them....

Table of Contents Vaccination Outreach Shifts as Demand Drops in Some States Composer Harold O'Neal plays piano as people wait out their post-vaccination observation period at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City. Nationwide, state and local health agencies are coming up with a variety of new strategies to persuade people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Kathy Willens The Associated Press Four months into the largest vaccination campaign in U.S. history, roughly half of all adult Americans have received at least one shot against COVID-19 and the n...