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Vaccine Outreach Targets Minority Communities
As states and medical centers roll out COVID-19 vaccines, many are highlighting recipients from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds to build trust. This is in part due to vaccine hesitancy, especially in Black communities where a history of medical testing without consent and inadequate access to health care has built distrust. A recent study by the Kaiser Family...
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Calculate Your Spot in the Coronavirus Vaccine Line
Coronavirus vaccinations are well underway in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The three states have received about 1 million doses thus far and expect hundreds of thousands more in allocations before the month is out. While they have slightly different rollout plans as far as timing, all three states are subscribing to the priority population guidance issued by the…
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EXPLAINER: Should Vaccine Volunteers Now Get the Real Thing?
Health experts are debating what to tell study volunteers who got a placebo shot instead of a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Building Trust in the COVID Vaccines
Starting today in New Jersey, the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccines will be available outside of a hospital for the first qualifying recipients.
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NYC Reports 1st ‘Significant' Allergic Reaction Out of 30,000-Plus Vaccine Shots
New York City reported its first “significant allergic reaction” in a healthcare worker who received the Pfizer vaccine on Wednesday, the only adverse response it has received of more than 30,000 shots administered to date. The worker has been treated and is in stable condition, city officials said. Allergic reactions to the Pfizer vaccine have been reported in clinical trials…
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Pfizer to Supply US With Additional 100M Vaccine Doses by July 2021
The U.S. government is close to a deal with Pfizer to acquire tens of millions of additional vaccine doses in exchange for helping the pharmaceutical giant gain better access to manufacturing supplies
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Biden Gets COVID-19 Vaccine, Says ‘Nothing to Worry About'
President-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe
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Watch: Biden Gets Pfizer Vaccine
President-elect Joe Biden received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday. “This is just the beginning,” he said. “I hope people listen to all the experts… talking about the need to wear masks.”
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Why Dippin' Dots Might Have a Place in the COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution Plan
This is probably not what Dippin’ Dots had in mind when describing itself as the “Ice Cream of the Future.”
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General Sorry for ‘Miscommunication' Over Vaccine Shipments
The Army general in charge of getting COVID-19 vaccines across the United States is apologizing for what he calls “miscommunication” with states over the number of doses to be delivered in the early stages of distribution
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NJ's Incoming Vaccine Orders Cut by 100K Doses, Murphy Says
Vaccine shipments bound for New Jersey from Pfizer and Moderna — the latter which was granted emergency use authorization by the FDA on Friday — have been reduced by an estimated 20 percent, Gov. Phil Murphy said at a transit briefing on Friday. “We’re still trying to get to the bottom of what we understand will be 20 percent reduction…
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NJ Vaccine Shipments Short 100K Doses, Murphy Says
After rolling out its first COVID inoculations on Tuesday, New Jersey is now expecting a 20 percent reduction in the number of doses in its next shipment, resulting in an estimated 100,000 fewer vaccinations being issued this year. News 4’s Brian Thompson has the latest on what Governor Murphy is saying caused this delay.
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Hospital Workers Get Vaccine at NJ Medical Center; State Positivity Jumps to 13%
NBC New York’s Tracie Strahan is at the Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen where health care workers there are receiving the much anticipated coronavirus vaccine.
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States Express Concerns Over Vaccine Distribution; FDA Poised to Approve 2nd Vaccine
Meanwhile, more restrictions are possible in New York City after Gov. Andrew Cuomo banned indoor dining this week. NBC New York’s Tracie Strahan and Katherine Creag report.
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US Angling to Secure More of Pfizer's Coronavirus Vaccine
U.S. officials say they’re actively negotiating for additional purchases of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine after passing up a chance to lock in a contract this summer because it was still unclear how well the shots would work
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How Do the mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines Work?
Both the Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines were developed using mRNA—short for messenger RNA— technology. Here is how they work.
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ER Nurse Gets NJ's First Vaccine; FDA Poised to Approve 2nd Vaccine
NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.
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Canada Begins Rolling Out COVID-19 Vaccinations
Fourteen sites across the country will receive 30,000 doses this week.
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States Will Start Getting COVID-19 Vaccine Monday, US Says
U.S. officials say the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in states Monday morning
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First COVID-19 Vaccine Given in Conn. Shortly After Arrival at Hartford Hospital
History unfolded as the first authorized COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S. shipped out to spots across the country, including roughly 31,000 doses to Connecticut. The first COVID-19 vaccines in the state arrived to Hartford Hospital on Monday morning. Later in the morning, the first vaccine was given out to a frontline health care worker. “I’ve got my phone on...