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U.K. Will Start Immunizing People Against COVID-19 On Tuesday, Officials Say

1:57pm December 04, 2020

by Bill Chappell

Mass vaccinations will start less than a week after the U.K. approved the new drug. Welsh First Minister Mark Drakeford says it could start "a long path back to normality."

A bar chart showing total confirmed and potential vaccine dose purchases per country, as of Nov. 30.

How Rich Countries Are 'Hoarding' The World's Vaccines, In Charts

6:52pm December 03, 2020

by Michaeleen Doucleff

Experts say low-risk people in the U.S. will likely be immunized before many high-risk people in poor countries.

The U.K. has approved the Pfizer and German biotechnology company BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use.

U.K. Approves Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine For Emergency Use

10:58am December 02, 2020

by Jaclyn Diaz

A British regulatory agency approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine Wednesday. It could be dispersed within days to the neediest people, government officials said.

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North Carolina To Get 85,000 Initial Pfizer COVID Vaccine Doses

9:31am December 02, 2020

by Associated Press

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announced on Tuesday that the state will soon receive about 85,000 doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine from the federal government.

A flu vaccine is administered at a walk-up COVID-19 testing sit in San Fernando, Calif. A COVID-19 vaccine could soon win emergency use authorization from the FDA.

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A COVID-19 Vaccine Has Come Quick, But Expert Says That's No Reason To Fear It

7:23pm November 30, 2020

by Christianna Silva

Heidi Larson, the director of the Vaccine Confidence Project, has travelled the world studying vaccine misinformation. Simply put, she says, a bad vaccine is "not in anyone's interest."

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Moncef Slaoui, chief scientific adviser for Operation Warp Speed, listens as President Trump delivers remarks about coronavirus vaccine development in the Rose Garden on May 15. Slaoui says Americans could start seeing a vaccine by the middle of December.

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Americans Could See A Vaccine By Mid-December, Says Operation Warp Speed Adviser

6:44pm November 22, 2020

by Christianna Silva

Moncef Slaoui, the chief scientific adviser for Operation Warp Speed, says that some Americans could start receiving a COVID-19 vaccine by the second week of December.

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What It Was Like To Participate In The Clinical Trial For Moderna's COVID-19 Vaccine

5:41pm November 20, 2020

PBS Newshour correspondent John Yang reflects on his experience participating in Moderna's coronavirus vaccine trial. "It started off with self-interest — I wanted to get the vaccine sooner," he says.

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Sinovac has released data about early clinical trials of its vaccine against the coronavirus.

Early Trials Of Chinese Company's Vaccine Show It Triggers An Immune Response

4:27pm November 18, 2020

by Elie Levine

Hundreds of thousands of people in China have already received this vaccine. Now, preliminary trials are showing promising results, although it's too early to say whether it can prevent disease.

A staff member checks vaccines at a Beijing factory built by Sinovac to produce a COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine. Sinovac is one of 11 Chinese companies approved to carry out clinical trials of potential vaccines.

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China Is Inoculating Thousands With Unapproved COVID-19 Vaccines. Why?

1:34pm November 12, 2020

Although the leading vaccine candidates are not yet officially approved, the drug companies are administering them to hundreds of thousands of people.

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Wake Forest Baptist Receives Grant To Study Flu Vaccine For Newborns

3:55pm November 10, 2020

by Bethany Chafin

Wake Forest Baptist scientists have received a $2.9 million grant to help develop a flu vaccine for newborns. The funding comes from the National Institutes of Health.