Tag Archives: COVID Vaccine

Biden: I Trust Vaccines But I Don’t Trust Trump [VIDEO]

NBC News reports: Joe Biden on Wednesday said he doesn’t trust President Donald Trump to safely oversee the federal government’s approval and dissemination of a Covid-19 vaccine. “I trust vaccines, I trust scientists, but I don’t trust Donald Trump,” Biden said during a speech in Wilmington, Delaware. Trump has repeatedly pledged to “produce a vaccine in record time,” and has …

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Federal Agencies Unveil Plan For Free COVID Vaccines

The Associated Press reports: The federal government outlined a sweeping plan Wednesday to make vaccines for COVID-19 available for free to all Americans, even as polls show a strong undercurrent of skepticism rippling across the land. In a report to Congress and an accompanying “playbook” for states and localities, federal health agencies and the Defense Department sketched out complex plans …

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Mike Pence “Wouldn’t Hesitate” To Get COVID Vaccine

The Hill reports: Vice President Pence “wouldn’t hesitate” to get a COVID-19 vaccine once it’s FDA approved and said the administration will be urging Americans to get flu shots as public health experts warn of the potential dangers of flu season coinciding with the coronavirus pandemic. Pence told The Hill in an exclusive interview that the Department of Health and …

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Pfizer: We’ll Know About Our Vax By End Of October

Axios reports: Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla told CBS News’ “Face the Nation” Sunday that his company will know whether its coronavirus vaccine is effective by the end of October and that it has already manufactured hundreds of thousands of doses in anticipation that the vaccine will receive FDA approval. Why it matters: There has been a major push by the …

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AstraZeneca Resumes COVID Vaccine Trials In UK

CNBC reports: Phase three trials for AstraZeneca’s coronavirus vaccine have resumed in the U.K. after they were halted earlier this week over safety concerns, the company announced Saturday. AstraZeneca said it received confirmation from the United Kingdom’s Medicines Health Regulatory Authority that it was safe to resume clinical trials. The company declined to disclose medical information about the pause of …

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Ivanka Says She’ll Get COVID Vax On The View After Host Joy Behar Says She Won’t Get It Until Ivanka Does

The Hill reports: Joy Behar declared Wednesday that she won’t take a coronavirus vaccine until after Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter and senior White House adviser, takes it. “The View” co-host noted that most vaccines, including one she took for mumps, take years to safely develop, warning that officials should not rush to approve one for COVID-19 before it is …

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Scientists Spot “Unlikely Patterns” In Russian Vax Data

Reuters reports: Twenty-six scientists, most of them working at universities in Italy, have signed an open letter questioning the reliability of the data presented in the early-stage trial results of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, named “Sputnik-V”. Addressing the editor of The Lancet, the international peer-reviewed medical journal in which Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute published its early-stage trial results, the scientists said …

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Vax Trial Paused After Adverse Reaction In Volunteer

STAT News reports: A large, Phase 3 study testing a Covid-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford at dozens of sites across the U.S. has been put on hold due to a suspected serious adverse reaction in a participant in the United Kingdom. A spokesperson for AstraZeneca, a frontrunner in the race for a Covid-19 vaccine, …

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Nine Pharmas Issue Joint Pledge On COVID Vax Efficacy

The Hill reports: Nine pharmaceutical companies on Tuesday issued a rare joint pledge seeking to reassure the public about the safety and efficacy of their vaccines for coronavirus. The statement from the top drug companies working on coronavirus vaccines, including Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Moderna, comes amid fears of political pressure from President Trump on the vaccine approval process and doubts …

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POLL: Skepticism Grows Over Rushed COVID Vaccine

CBS News reports: Skepticism about getting a coronavirus vaccine has grown since earlier this summer, and most voters say if a vaccine were made available this year, their first thought would be that it was rushed through without enough testing. Just 21% of voters nationwide now say they would get a vaccine as soon as possible if one became available …

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Harris: I Wouldn’t Trust Trump On Rushed Vaccine

Mediaite reports: Vice presidential candidate and California Senator Kamala Harris says she wouldn’t trust President Donald Trump’s word alone if a coronavirus vaccine were rushed out before election day, telling CNN she would need to see more credible information on safety and efficacy. “I think that’s going to be an issue for all of us,” Harris said. “I will say …

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Bolsonaro: COVID Vaccine Should Not Be Mandatory

The New York Daily News reports: The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is once again making headlines for his handling of the coronavirus crisis.  “No one can force anyone to get a vaccine,” Bolsonaro told a supporter on Monday, according to the Brazilian news site UOL. The far-right leader of South America’s largest country was responding to a woman who …

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FL Gov Breaks With Trump On Coronavirus Vaccine

USA Today reports: Breaking ranks with President Donald Trump, Gov. Ron DeSantis warned that a vaccine might not bring an end to the coronavirus pandemic. “People should have tempered expectations on that,” he said at a press conference in Daytona Beach when asked about the hoped-for vaccine. “I don’t want people to think that in 2½ months it will be …

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WHO Forecasts COVID Vax Availability At Mid-2021

Reuters reports: The World Health Organization does not expect widespread vaccinations against COVID-19 until the middle of next year, a spokeswoman said on Friday, stressing the importance of rigorous checks on their effectiveness and safety. None of the candidate vaccines in advanced clinical trials so far has demonstrated a “clear signal” of efficacy at the level of at least 50% …

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Fauci: Vaccine Won’t Be Approved Unless Effective

“I mean I will look at the data and I would assume and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be the case that a vaccine would not be approved for the American public unless it was indeed both safe and effective. And I keep emphasizing both safe and effective. If that’s the case, Jim, I would not hesitate for a …

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CDC To States: Be Ready For Vaccine By Late October

The New York Times reports: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has notified public health officials in all 50 states and five large cities to prepare to distribute a coronavirus vaccine to health care workers and other high-risk groups as soon as late October or early November. The documents were sent out on the same day that President Trump …

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FDA Commissioner Willing To Fast-Track COVID Vaccine

The New York Post reports: The head of the US Food and Drug Administration is willing to fast-track a coronavirus vaccine as quickly as possible – even before Phase Three clinical trials end — as long as officials are convinced the benefits outweigh the risks, according to a report. Commissioner Stephen Hahn told the Financial Times that the move would …

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Pharma Says COVID Vax Results Promising For Elderly

Reuters reports: Moderna said on Wednesday its experimental COVID-19 vaccine induced immune responses in older adults similar to those in younger participants, offering hope that it will be effective in people considered to be at high risk for severe complications from the coronavirus. The analysis looked at subjects given the 100-microgram dose being tested in the much larger Phase III …

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NYT: Trump Admin Planning Premature Vax Approval

The New York Times reports: Trump administration officials met with congressional leaders last month and told them they would probably give emergency approval to a coronavirus vaccine before the end of Phase 3 clinical trials in the United States, perhaps as early as late September, according to two people briefed on the discussion. The move would be highly unusual and …

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Pence Predicts “Miracle” Vaccine By The End Of The Year

The Independent reports: Vice President Mike Pence has responded to Joe Biden‘s acceptance speech criticism of the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, saying he believes there is “a miracle around the corner.” In an interview on CNN on Friday, Pence was asked how many Americans would lose their lives due to the pandemic by the end of the year. “As …

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