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February 25, 2021 6:06 AM By Brandon Lee Xavier Becerra, President Joe Biden’s pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department, assured lawmakers yesterday that as HHS secretary he’d build on the existing private sector insurance scheme in the U.S. rather than push for Medicare for All. When he was a member of the House, Becerra championed the federal government-operated health-care program that would cover all Americans, in a shift that would effectively wipe out the private-sector health insurance industry. “The most important thing is to give everyone in th...

February 22, 2021 6:09 AM By Brandon Lee Nearly a month after U.S. vaccination campaigns ramped up to give Covid-19 shots to more than a million people a day, their second doses are coming due, straining state rollouts and leaving some without complete immunizations. In Texas alone, almost 6,000 people were overdue for their second shots in early February. In Washington state, health officials said last week that some mass vaccination clinics would be delivering follow-up doses only. A Michigan hospital system canceled last-dose appointments for the past week after its supply was ...

February 2, 2021 6:13 AM By Brandon Lee More Americans have taken at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine than have tested positive for the coronavirus, an early but still hopeful milestone in the race to end the pandemic. As of yesterday evening, 26.5 million Americans had received one or both doses of the current vaccines, data gathered by the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker show. Since the first patient tested positive in the U.S. nearby Seattle a year ago, 26.2 million people in the country have tested positive for the disease, which has killed nearly 450,000 people, Johns Hopkins ...

February 1, 2021 6:15 AM By Brandon Lee and Alex Ruoff The world could be on the verge of having two more vaccines to fight the pandemic, but virus variants popping up worldwide are forcing vaccine-makers to develop boosters for a disease that’s constantly changing and could remain active for years. The vaccines developed by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech are already in use. Meanwhile, new studies show that two others—from Johnson & Johnson and Novavax—pack potent punches against the virus, potentially paving a way for quick authorizations in the U.S. for J&J’s va...

Tech glitches, swamped websites impede US vaccine distribution Updated Jan 31, 2021; By Angelica LaVito and John Tozzi; Bloomberg News (TNS) In Mississippi, an online vaccine registration system buckled in a sudden onslaught of traffic. Officials at a local health department in Georgia had to resort to counting every dose they receive before scheduling appointments. A $44 million national vaccine scheduling and tracking system is going largely unused by states. And California, Idaho and North Dakota undercounted vaccinations because workers forgot to click on a “submit” button at the end...