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Pfizer Vaccine Vials May Come with Extra Doses; FDA Advises on Usage The first shipments of the Pfizer vaccine have been going out to major hospitals all week, but there’s not nearly enough to go around. Some facilities received just 975 doses during the first round with workforces of over 10,000 employees. The company says it will increase the number of shipments week after week, but until then, some healthcare workers will just have to wait for their doses. However, there is a bit of good news. The FDA issued a statement late last night confirming that the vials containing the Pfizer vacc...

Leon Neal/Getty Images With the Covid-19 vaccine in short supply, hospital pharmacists found themselves in the unexpected position of throwing away one in every six doses of the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines distributed this week in the United States. The confusion came over labeling: The vaccine comes in vials labeled as containing enough for five doses. But pharmacists discovered that, after thawing and mixing the contents with a diluent, each vial contained enough vaccine for six doses. Without explicit approval from the manufacturer, that final dose had to be discarded. “It was overtly...

Roughly three-quarters of those polled said life won’t go back to normal until enough of the country is vaccinated.

Black Americans are the least likely of three races surveyed by the AP to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The group has suffered an outsized burden of cases and deaths than their share of the population.

WASHINGTON — As states frantically prepare to begin months of vaccinations that could end the pandemic, a new poll finds only about half of Americans are ready to roll up