Schlegelmilch thinks theBiden-Harris administration's push to buy more vaccines, to increase production through the use of the Defense Production Act, and to deliver support to state and local governments have significantly accelerated the vaccine distribution process. "Biden set the goal of having 10...
Drawing on data on global vaccine production and distribution, we argue that the trimodal structure of the capitalist world-system--core, semi-periphery, and periphery--has been reproduced through unequal access to vaccines, constituting hierarchically structured "vaccine worlds". The...
This includes firefighters, police, food packaging and distribution workers, teachers/school staff, childcare providers, nursing home workers; 3. People 65 years of age or older in long-term care facilities. Do these criteria of vaccine distribution meet public expectations? We need to collect ...
To get around that, Pfizer has developed specially built deep-freeze "suitcases" that can be tightly sealed and shipped even in non-refrigerated trucks. But while Pfizer may have solved the problem of how to ship the frozen vaccine, these highly engineered shipping containers create other problem...
Dr. Offit explains that it is not the raw event numbers, but the distribution across arms that matter; one could have a significant trial even with few events, “assuming that you have just a handful or fewer people in your vaccine group who were ill.” And again, Offit replies, “I...
“It’s hard not to see this as a push for a pre-election vaccine,” Saskia Popescu, an infection prevention epidemiologist in Arizona, told the NYT. Popescu also warned of “the politicization of public health and the potential safety ramifications” if the vaccine approval process is cut ...
Some women I asked received their shots with no hassle. “Getting the vaccine in New York City was embarrassingly easy for us,” says Sally Koslow, who had a sleep over for her grandkids three weeks after the vaccine. But they are the exception. ...
We do not yet have a vaccine that can be used to help protect people from contracting COVID-19. However, once a vaccine is proven to be both safe and effective, governments, industry and healthcare providers will face the considerable task of figuring ou
Federal officials say the first shipments of Pfizer's vaccine will be staggered, arriving in 145 distribution centers Monday, with an additional 425 sites getting shipments Tuesday, and the remaining 66 on Wednesday. The vaccine, co-developed by German partner BioNTech, is being doled out based ...
Customer relationship management (CRM) software provider Salesforce is helping agencies to equitably distribute the vaccine in countries across the globe. On a smaller scale, Salesforce has created a system to help the city of Chicago manage its distribution efforts. This system may be used within...