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Information on vaccines to counter Ebola and other diseases

The Mission of this group is to follow the development of vaccines and other medications to counter Ebola and other diseases.

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Hospitals Race to Set Vaccine Priorities for Health-Care Workers

Mon, 2020-11-30 10:42 — mike kraft

Hospitals Race to Set Vaccine Priorities for Health-Care Workers Large hospital systems are grappling with how best to decide which health-care workers will be vaccinated first for Covid-19, a daunting task when it’s unclear which shots they’ll get, how many and when they’ll arrive. Angelica LaVito Bloomberg.com

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Trump administration leaves states to grapple with how to distribute scarce vaccines

Mon, 2020-11-30 10:27 — mike kraft

Trump administration leaves states to grapple with how to distribute scarce vaccines The Trump administration has told states that they have ultimate authority for determining who gets vaccinated first. YahooNews

The Trump administration is shunting to the states hard decisions about which Americans will get the limited early supplies of coronavirus vaccines — setting up a confusing patchwork of distribution plans that could create unequal access to the life-saving shots.

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Moderna to seek U.S. and EU authorization for its vaccine on Monday

Mon, 2020-11-30 10:13 — mike kraft

Moderna to seek U.S. and EU authorization for its vaccine on Monday Moderna Inc will apply for U.S. and European emergency authorization for its COVID-19 vaccine on Monday after full results from a late-stage study showed it was 94.1% effective with no serious safety concerns, the company said. Julie Steenhuysen, Michael Erman U.S.

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CDC panel meets Tuesday to vote on COVID-19 vaccine priority

Fri, 2020-11-27 19:38 — mike kraft

CDC panel meets Tuesday to vote on COVID-19 vaccine priority ATLANTA (AP) — A panel of U.S. advisers will meet Tuesday to vote on how scarce, initial supplies of a COVID-19 vaccine will be given out once one has been approved. Experts have proposed... AP NEWS

ATLANTA (AP) — A panel of U.S. advisers will meet Tuesday to vote on how scarce, initial supplies of a COVID-19 vaccine will be given out once one has been approved.

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Feds lay out plans to distribute vaccines and Regeeron

Wed, 2020-11-25 15:22 — mike kraft

Feds on COVID-19 mRNA vaccine distribution: Pfizer's dry runs predict a 'very doable process' More than 6 million doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 mRNA vaccine could ship in mid-December, Operation Warp Speed officials said.

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How South Korea’s Flu Vaccine Scare Offers Lessons for Other Nations

Wed, 2020-11-25 14:29 — mike kraft

SEOUL, South Korea — The deaths were mounting, and so were the public’s fears.

South Korea had vastly expanded its flu vaccine program to cover millions more people, to prevent a one-two punch to its health system as the coronavirus spread globally. But as the injections got underway, reports of deaths started popping up.

South Korean scientists quickly determined that the deaths were unrelated to the flu shots. But they worried that if they didn’t stop the panic, the public might shun the vaccines altogether.

So health officials doubled down — and, in the process, gave the world a game plan for when coronavirus vaccines become widely available.

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Doctors say CDC should warn people the side effects from Covid vaccine shots won’t be ‘a walk in the park’

Tue, 2020-11-24 21:24 — mike kraft

Public health officials and drugmakers need to warn people that coronavirus vaccine shots may have some rough side effects so they know what to expect and aren’t scared away from getting the second dose, doctors urged during a meeting Monday with CDC advisors.

The recommendations come as states prepare to distribute the potentially life-saving vaccinations as early as next month.

Dr. Sandra Fryhofer of the American Medical Association said both Pfizer’s and Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccines require two doses at varying intervals. As a practicing physician, she said she worries whether her patients will come back for a second dose because of the potentially unpleasant side effects they may experience after the first shot.

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