FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn responds to questions about the coronavirus vaccines including when one could be authorized. Plus, the U.S. says it will begin testing of its vaccine distribution efforts ahead of the FDA's decision, why "essential workers" could receive a vaccination earlier than others, and the high demand for traveling nurses in the pandemic.
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A COVID-19 vaccine could come within weeks – at least a limited supply to front-line medical workers. Drug companies Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca have the leading vaccine candidates. Several others remain in development. The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for authorizing and …
The U.S. federal government is conducting a practice run this week of its coronavirus vaccine distribution networks with some test shipments as the …
Wealthy people hiring gig workers so they can flout pandemic guidelines isn't a solution, it's an example of how things got so bad to begin with. Over the weekend, a TikTok video went viral advertising a tip to bypass waiting in long lines for COVID-19 testing: hiring a gig worker to wait for you. A …
Essential workers are likely to move ahead of adults 65 and older and people with high-risk medical conditions when the Centers for Disease Control …
[UPDATED at 2:30 p.m. ET] DENVER — In March, Claire Tripeny was watching her dream job fall apart. She’d been working as an intensive care nurse at …
NEW YORK (AP) — Don’t even think of putting the mask away anytime soon. Despite the expected arrival of COVID-19 vaccines in just a few weeks, it could take several months — probably well into 2021 — before things get back to something close to normal in the U.S. and Americans can once again go to …
The latest surge of coronavirus cases is fueling a record number of nursing home outbreaks, as the virus is spreading quickly inside long-term care facilities in the Midwest and the Great Plains while also re-emerging in facilities swamped by the first wave of the virus. More than 1,300 nursing …
At the start of 2020, Amanda French was in between academic jobs. Her mother had died about a year earlier, and she’d taken time off to help settle …
Public health officials and drugmakers need to warn people that coronavirus vaccine shots may have some rough side effects so they know what to …
Two vaccine candidates show promise in knocking out coronavirus. The technology used to develop them could herald more breakthroughs.
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