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(CNN) Just in time for warmer weather, fully vaccinated Americans can now safely enjoy more pre-pandemic activities without a mask, according to new guidelines from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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US to share millions of AstraZeneca vaccine doses with other countries

Mon, 2021-04-26 15:49 — mike kraft

US to share AstraZeneca shots with world after safety check WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. will begin sharing its entire stock of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines with the world once it clears federal safety reviews, the White House said Monday, with as many as 60 million doses expected to be available for export in the coming months. The move greatly expands on the Biden administration's action last month to share about 4 million doses of the vaccine with Mexico and Canada. The AstraZeneca vaccine is widely in use around the world but has not yet been authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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Suggestions on how to reach people who are reluctant to get vaccinated

Mon, 2021-04-26 12:05 — mike kraft

These are the pro-vaccine messages people want to hear No single strategy works for everyone, but a combination of several types of messages and messengers is persuading on-the-fence folks to get vaccinated. Frances Stead Sellers, Bonnie Berkowitz Washington Post

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Poll indicates widespread concern about J&J vaccine

Mon, 2021-04-26 11:51 — mike kraft

The public’s concerns over the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine are widespread, Post-ABC poll finds Fewer than 1 in 4 unvaccinated adults say they would be willing to get the Johnson & Johnson shot. Amy Goldstein, Scott Clement Washington Post

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EU takes legal action against AstraZeneca for vaccine delivery delays

Mon, 2021-04-26 09:19 — mike kraft

EU launches legal action against AstraZeneca for delays to vaccine delivery The legislative arm of the European Union has taken legal action against AstraZeneca over delays to the delivery of its Covid-19 vaccines to the bloc. By Ben Westcott, Kara Fox and Niamh Kennedy, CNN CNN

The legislative arm of the European Union has taken legal action against AstraZeneca over delays to the delivery of its Covid-19 vaccines to the bloc.

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Local doctors seek bigger role in providing coronavirus vaccinations

Sun, 2021-04-25 21:01 — mike kraft

Local doctors push for bigger role as vaccinations enter new phase The Biden administration sees local doctors as key to the next phase of vaccine distribution, after many family physicians complained they've been left out despite being among the most trusted voices Peter Sullivan TheHill

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Official Says E.U. Plans to Let Vaccinated U.S. Tourists Visit This Summer

Sun, 2021-04-25 20:11 — mike kraft

BRUSSELS — American tourists who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to visit the European Union over the summer, the head of the bloc’s executive body said in an interview with The New York Times on Sunday, more than a year after shutting down nonessential travel from most countries to limit the spread of the coronavirus.

The fast pace of vaccination in the United States, and advanced talks between authorities there and the European Union over how to make vaccine certificates acceptable as proof of immunity for visitors, will enable the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, to recommend a switch in policy that could see trans-Atlantic leisure travel restored.

“The Americans, as far as I can see, use European Medicines Agency-approved vaccines,” Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said Sunday in an interview with The Times in Brussels. “This will enable free movement and the travel to the European Union.

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Eight Per Cent in the US Are Skipping Their Second Doses of Covid Vaccines

Sun, 2021-04-25 11:58 — mike kraft

Millions of Americans are not getting the second doses of their Covid-19 vaccines, and their ranks are growing.

More than five million people, or nearly 8 percent of those who got a first shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines, have missed their second doses, according to the most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That is more than double the rate among people who got inoculated in the first several weeks of the nationwide vaccine campaign.

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AstraZeneca Vaccines Made at Troubled Baltimore Plant Were Shipped to Canada and Mexico

Sat, 2021-04-24 10:52 — mike kraft

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said Friday that it did not know that a Baltimore factory had discarded millions of possibly contaminated doses of AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine when President Biden last month released the company to ship vaccines manufactured there to Mexico and Canada.

Canadian and Mexican officials said on Friday that they had assurances from AstraZeneca that the millions of doses they received were safe. Some of the doses have been distributed to the public in both countries, the officials said.

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