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[ad_1] The claim: Four Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial participants developed facial paralysis Since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 11, deployment of the vaccine began Dec. 14. While the vaccine heralds an end to the nearly yearlong pandemic, some on social media are raising concerns. […]

[ad_1] The Food and Drug Administration found Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine to be safe and highly effective, bolstering the shot’s chances of being cleared for emergency use this week. In a 54-page report released Tuesday, FDA staff affirmed the Massachusetts biotech firm’s finding that the vaccine is about 94 percent effective and poses no safety concerns that would prevent the

[ad_1] This picture taken on November 8, 2020 shows a Santa Claus figurine photographed among surgical masks in Paris, as France is on a second lockdown aimed at containing the spread of Covid-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus . JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images More than 70 people were infected with coronavirus at a

[ad_1] “I feel hopeful today, relieved. I feel like healing is coming,” said Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens, N.Y., who became one of the first Americans to receive Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine outside of a clinical trial on Monday. “I want to instill public confidence that the

[ad_1] The beginning of the end of the coronavirus pandemic is finally here. The first federally approved COVID-19 vaccine was expected to arrive at 145 locations across all 50 states in the US Monday morning, including New York – and vaccinations were set to begin shortly after. The vaccine, developed by the Manhattan-based drugmaker Pfizer

[ad_1] KOIDU, Sierra Leone (AP) — The man first caught a glimpse of Marie Kamara as she ran with her friends past his house near the village primary school. Soon after, he proposed to the fifth-grader. “I’m going to school now. I don’t want to get married and stay in the house,” she told him.

[ad_1] WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and other top federal office-holders will be offered COVID-19 vaccines over the next week-and-a-half to guard against an outbreak that could cripple the functions of government, officials said Sunday. The shots will be offered to officials across all three branches of government, including leaders at

[ad_1] Thermo King’s freezers, which are typically used to ship fresh tuna to Japan, will keep COVID-19 vaccine doses at freezing-cold temperatures as they travel overseas. Trane Technologies Industrial freezers first created to ship perishable foods like fresh tuna to Japan have been retrofitted to ship the newly-approved Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. The doses can be

[ad_1] The first trucks carrying a COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use in the United States were set to pull out of a Michigan manufacturing plant Sunday, with the shots that are critical to stopping the nation’s coronavirus outbreak destined to reach states a day later. Shipments of the Pfizer vaccine will set in motion the

[ad_1] Congressman-elect Bob Good (R-Virginia). John McDonnell/The Washington Post via Getty Images GOP Representative-elect Bob Good of Virginia on Saturday labeled the coronavirus pandemic as “phony” at a rally in support of President Donald Trump in Washington, DC. “This looks like a group of people that get that this is a phony pandemic,” he said.