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CVS Health gears up for widespread COVID-19 vaccine distribution at pharmacies

Jan 13, 2021

CINCINNATI — As COVID-19 vaccine distribution ramps up, questions remain about how doses will get out to the public. CVS Health officials said they have the experience to get it done. What the pharmacy chain has learned from administering flu shots and COVID-19 testing will help them get doses out quickly as states move into new phases. "Retail pharmacies are the foundation of the approach here. Both because we...

Nursing Home Vaccine Stories: One CEO’s Personal Appeal to Reduce Hesitancy

Jan 13, 2021

Just as predicted before the rollout began, vaccine hesitancy among nursing home workers stands as a serious barrier to widespread acceptance in long-term care — and, in turn, fully fostering group immunity among the most vulnerable. Battered by COVID-19 and unwilling to trust the institutions that oversaw the deaths of their patients and colleagues, a significant percentage of frontline caregivers have said no to the coronavirus...

Health care professionals can decline COVID-19 vaccine — for now

Jan 06, 2021

Millions of health care workers are slated to receive the first batch of potentially lifesaving COVID-19 vaccines by the end of this month. But not all of them want to be first in line . Only one-third of a panel of 13,000 nurses said they would voluntarily take a vaccine; another third said they wouldn’t and the rest said they were unsure, according to a late October survey by the American Nurses Association....

Meet Sandra Lindsay, a nurse in New York City who was the first person in America to get the COVID-19 vaccine

Dec 16, 2020

Sandra Lindsay knew the minute she heard about COVID-19 vaccines that she wanted to be first in line to get one. Lindsay, a New York City nurse, got her wish. She became the first person in the US vaccinated against COVID-19 outside of clinical trials on Monday. Lindsay has been a critical care nurse for more than 26 years. She currently works as the director for critical care at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in...

Key committee endorses Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, paving way for clearance by FDA and vaccinations in US to begin

Dec 10, 2020

A committee of leading U.S. vaccine scientists recommended Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration authorize the first COVID-19 vaccine for Americans. The endorsement paves the way for a final decision by the FDA and mass vaccinations to begin within days in thousands of front-line heath care workers and nursing home residents. After an eight-hour public hearing, the independent Vaccines and Related Biological...

100M shots in the first 100 days: Biden unveils Covid priorities, introduces health team

Dec 09, 2020

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday promised that his administration would oversee the injection of 100 million Covid-19 vaccine shots within his first 100 days as president and vowed to reopen a “majority” of schools across the nation in the same time frame. Biden, who spoke from Wilmington, Delaware, at an event in which he also announced the top members of his health care team, promised that educators, along with health...

Pfizer, BioNTech say Covid vaccine is more than 90% effective — ‘great day for science and humanity’

Nov 11, 2020

Pfizer and BioNTech announced Monday their coronavirus vaccine was more than 90% effective in preventing Covid-19 among those without evidence of prior infection, hailing the development as “a great day for science and humanity.” “I think we can see light at the end of the tunnel,” Pfizer Chairman and CEO Dr. Albert Bourla told CNBC’s Meg Tirrell on “ Squawk Box .” “I...

US Withdraws Advice on Airborne Coronavirus Transmission

Sep 21, 2020

FILE - Ashley Ruiz gives herself a COVID-19 nasal swab test while sitting in a car at a drive-up CVS pharmacy in Dallas, Sept. 18, 2020. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday withdrew its statement from three days ago on how COVID-19 can spread through aerosolized droplets, saying it was posted "in error." On Friday, the CDC posted an update to...

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