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U.S. vaccination supplies will fall sharply because of J&J factory problems.

Sat, 2021-04-10 12:43 — mike kraft

WASHINGTON — Supplies of Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose coronavirus vaccine will be extremely limited until federal regulators approve production at a Baltimore manufacturing plant with a pattern of quality-control lapses, the White House’s pandemic response coordinator said on Friday.

With allocations of the company’s vaccine set to plunge by 86 percent next week, governors across the country warned that the loss of supplies they had been counting on would set back their vaccination drives.

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ANALYSIS: Red states are vaccinating at a lower rate than blue states

Sat, 2021-04-10 12:30 — mike kraft

Red states are vaccinating at a lower rate than blue states One of the biggest obstacles in America's race to vaccinate against the coronavirus has been that substantial proportions of certain groups choose not to vaccinate. Analysis by Harry Enten, CNN CNN

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Some states have been slow to order or use allotted vaccine doses

Sat, 2021-04-10 12:15 — mike kraft

States have been slow to order allotted vaccine doses, spurring calls for new approach Pressure on the federal government to rethink its allocation strategy has mounted as access to immunization expands nationwide but new infections are concentrated in just a handful of states, including Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Florida and Pennsylvania. Isaac Stanley-Becker Washington Post

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Scientists are trying to find a simple pill to treat Covid-19 ...but

Fri, 2021-04-09 20:42 — mike kraft

Scientists work toward an elusive dream: a simple pill to treat Covid-19 As simple as that sounds, the process of actually developing new antiviral treatments is overwhelmingly complicated. Damian Garde STAT

The world has vaccines that can prevent most cases of Covid-19. It even has drugs that can help with the most serious symptoms of the disease. Now what it needs is a Tamiflu for SARS-CoV-2.

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J&J covid vaccine allocations will be short by 86 per cent next week.

Fri, 2021-04-09 20:22 — mike kraft

A White House official warned Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccines will be scarce until a troubled plant gains regulatory approval

Supplies of Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose coronavirus vaccine will be extremely limited until federal regulators approve production at a Baltimore manufacturing plant under scrutiny, the White House’s pandemic response coordinator said Friday.

With allocations of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine set to plunge by 86 percent next week, governors across the country warned that the loss of the supplies they were counting on would set back their vaccination drives, which have used the shot in more transient, isolated and rural areas where the one-dose vaccine has appealed to many Americans. The other two vaccines, made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, continue to flow out to the states at high volume.

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