by Richard A. Hendricks | Jan 23, 2021 | Health News
Today marks one year since the announcement of the first patient with Covid-19 in the United States. It happened in Washington state, where a male in his 30s who had just returned from visiting Wuhan, China, started experiencing symptoms and quickly sought help at a clinic. Unlike in the movies or on TV, where a […]
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jan 22, 2021 | Health News
From New York to Tennessee to West Virginia, officials are clamoring for more doses of coronavirus vaccine. And officials in those states said that federal tallies suggesting they have thousands of doses sitting on the shelves don’t accurately reflect the supply...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jan 20, 2021 | Health News
Yet, despite reports of technology hiccups, changes to allocated supply and other logistical hurdles, some states have risen as clear leaders in efficient Covid-19 vaccination efforts. More than 31 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been distributed to states and...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Jan 7, 2021 | Health News
Just 5.3 million of the 17.3 million doses distributed have been administered in the United States — only 30.7%. That doesn’t come to close to the target the Trump administration set in the fall to administer 20 million vaccines to Americans by the end of...
by Richard A. Hendricks | Dec 14, 2020 | Health News
Eleven members of the committee voted in favor of the recommendation and three were recused. Still, vaccines can’t be administered in the United States just yet. First, the US Food and Drug Administration gave Pfizer and BioNTech’s vaccine emergency use...
