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New CDC data suggests CVS and Walgreens wasted thousands of COVID-19 vaccine doses, more than most states combined cteh@businessinsider.com (Cheryl Teh) © Spencer Platt/Getty Images Medical staff at a Walgreens can administer the COVID vaccine to customers as part of the US's nationwide vaccine rollout. Spencer Platt/Getty Images New CDC data shows CVS and Walgreens were responsible for around 70% of US COVID-19 vaccine wastage. The data suggests that the two companies wasted more doses than the combined total of most states. CVS cited issues with transportation restriction...

SA now has a rough plan to deal with injury claims from Covid vaccines. Companies won't be liable Business Insider SA facebook Patrick Fallon/AFP via Getty Images South Africa has a draft plan for how the Covid-19 Vaccine Injury No-Fault Compensation Scheme will work. It is pretty broad strokes. The scheme will offer vaccine manufacturers, and everyone else involved in rolling it out, immunity against damages claims, whatever happens. But how much the government scheme will pay out, how that will be decided, and even who exactly runs it, we do not yet know. So...

Execs told the company's investors that people may also need a third dose of the COVID vaccine, as well as regular yearly boosters.

Prisoners in Tennessee were placed in the last group eligible for vaccines after an advisory panel said prioritizing them would be a PR 'nightmare' insider@insider.com (Connor Perrett) © Patrick Fallon/AFP via Getty Images vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be administered to front-line health care workers under an emergency use authorization at a drive up vaccination site from Renown Health in Reno, Nevada on December 17, 2020. Patrick Fallon/AFP via Getty Images An advisory council in Tennessee feared that giving prisoners early access to the va...

Junior Lifeguards await LACFD Chief Osby’s okay for summer program SHARE Los Angeles County Junior Lifeguards complete a swim under the Hermosa Beach pier. Photo by Patrick Fallon. by Kevin Cody  Last week, after Los Angeles County Fire Chief Daryl Osby signaled he was canceling the Junior Lifeguard program for a second consecutive summer because of the pandemic, Los Angeles County Supervisor Janice Hahn introduced an emergency motion to save the program. The unanimously approved motion directed the County Fire Department to report back to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors with...