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By Tessa Weinberg Missouri Independent Nestled in the pages of Missouri’s initial plan for how to distribute the coronavirus vaccine was a paragraph touting that “Missouri’s population understands the importance of receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.” A month later, in a revised version of the report, the paragraph was gone.  Instead, the updated plan featured a new section that targeted how the state would combat misinformation, complete with a website promising a page dedicated to “myth busters.” The revisions came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s feedback was...

Anyone who wants a vaccine may be able to get one by sometime next summer. Enough people will get vaccinated that herd immunity will end the pandemic as safely and quickly as possible. This would be the ideal outcome for the end to a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 1.5 million people and sickened tens of millions worldwide. Expect something more complicated to unfold in real time. "People do have legitimate concerns about whether this is being done right and, of course, there's been a lot of noise and concern that the timelines might be driven by politics instead of by science,...

It would appear that the people in American hit hardest by COVID-19 — Black people — are also the group most leery about the prospects of a vaccine. As a Pew Research report published last week pointed out: “Black Americans are especially likely to say they know someone who has been hospitalized or died as a result of having the coronavirus: 71% say this, compared with smaller shares of Hispanic (61%), white (49%) and Asian-American (48 %) adults.” But that same report contained the following: “Black Americans continue to stand out as less inclined to get vaccinated t...

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn to submit his resignation if the agency doesn't clear Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use by the end of the day Friday, according to multiple reports. The warning led the FDA to accelerate its timetable for clearing America's first Covid-19 vaccine from Saturday morning to later Friday, according to the Washington Post, which cited anonymous sources. "This is an untrue representation of the phone call with the Chief of Staff," Hahn told CNBC in a statement. "The FDA was encouraged to continue working expedit...

Mercy Sister Natalie Rossi, a prison chaplain, prays with a Catholic inmate in solitary confinement at the State Correctional Institution for Women in Cambridge Springs, Pa., Jan. 12, 2007. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)  Every morning at 8 a.m., I confirm that my phone ringer is on and pray to receive an automated greeting call: Hello. This is a collect call from ___, an offender at Louisiana State Penitentiary. This call is being recorded and is subject to monitoring. To accept charges, press one. One of 12 people I’ve been visiting in prison over the past 15 years is a 77-year-old Roman Catholi...