President Joe Biden on April 6 directed that states make every adult eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by April 19, nearly two weeks earlier than his, which was set for May 1. Alaska was the first state to announce and implement eligibility for all adults on March 9. Since then, states ...
The Amherst School Committee voted unanimously this week to put the mandate in place after the Board of Health added the FDA-approved Pfizer vaccine to the list of required immunizations. That makes Amherst the first in Massachusetts to do so. "For us it's really about safety," Superintendent...
The governor was asked about the CDC's recommendation to start expanding the distribution of the vaccine. He said any changes to the Massachusetts timeline will come after getting advice from the state's COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group. Right now, Massachusetts is still in phase one. ...
States With Best COVID-19 Vaccine Rates More Matthew Hatcher|Getty Images Medical staff watch and advise walk-in patients who received their COVID-19 vaccination at a pop-up clinic at Western International High School on April 12, 2021, in Detroit. Communities with high vaccination rates are ...
Table 1 Vaccine candidates currently in phase 4 of clinical development: As per WHO source, 15th October 2021 Vaccines candidates and different platforms used for the development of COVID-19 vaccine Every year, 2–3 million fatalities are prevented due to immunization. Numerous illnesses are prevent...
and Massachusetts, we observed eligibility differences from county to county. In Los Angeles and Chicago, eligibility criteria were different between large cities and their surrounding counties. In North Dakota, the vaccine eligibility criteria even varied between pharmacies and vaccinating lo...
Due to the challenges of developing a vaccine for SARS-CoV-2, it will likely take another year or more until the public is sufficiently protected from COVID-19 (Lurie et al., 2020). Therefore, it is important to monitor the spread of the disease systematically, anticipate or detect new ...
Within 1 year of the first identification of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), a series of landmark clinical trials involving a variety of vaccine approaches unequivocally demonstrated that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was a vaccine-preventable illness.1, 2, 3,...
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There remains no approved vaccine for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and few pharmaceutical options for the treatment of COVID-19 are available9,10,11. The most optimistic scientists do not predict the availability of new vaccines or therapeutics before 2021 (refs.12,13,14,15). Non...