Tag Archives: Vaccine

The Delta Coronavirus variant is coming in hard, and reports show those who are unvaccinated could be hit the hardest. There are currently 140 million people in the U.S. who have yet to get vaccinated. During a Tuesday White House briefing, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle …

A COVID-19 outbreak in a Florida government building has left two people dead and four others hospitalized.  The outbreak originated in the IT department last week. One person outside of the department also tested positive for COVID-19. Of the six people infected, five were hospitalized. According to Manatee County Administrator Scott …

A lawsuit brought on by employees at a Houston, Texas hospital has been thrown out by a federal judge who sided with the hospital on a vaccine mandate. According to USA Today, the federal ruling could cause a ripple effect across the nation. On Saturday, U.S. District Judge Lynn N. …

A former Wisconsin pharmacist has been sentenced to three years in prison for purposely destroying COVID-19 vaccines. On Tuesday, 46-year-old Steven Brandenburg received three years in federal prison after pleading guilty in February to two felony counts of attempting to tamper with a consumer product. He initially faced up to …

As the world reopens, many businesses are questioning to vaccine or not vaccine? However, the cruise line Royal Caribbean International has decided not to require U.S. passengers to get vaccinated. According to the New York Post, the company said that it would only “strongly” encourage guests to get a COVID-19 …

Continuing to get creative with incentives for people in the state to be vaccinated, New York is now offering free college tuition to 50 lucky students. New York Daily News reports that Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that children between the ages of 12 and 17 that are immunized before July 7 …

More than 25 percent of unvaccinated people said they wouldn’t follow CDC guidelines and won’t follow the rules for wearing masks outside. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been very clear about the need to wear a mask to curve the spread of the potentially life-threatening Coronavirus …

North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services announced that they will be providing $25 “Summer Cash” cards at select vaccination sites as part of an ongoing campaign to get more North Carolinians vaccinated. The NCDHHS will begin providing cash rewards on Wednesday and will continue until June 8. The …

An Italian hospital accidentally gave a woman six doses of the Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine. According to Daniella Gianelli, a spokesperson for Noa hospital in Tuscany, a 23-year-old woman was given the vaccine. Until she was released on Monday, the woman was kept under strict observation for 24 hours and …

The FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine on Monday for children aged 12 to 15, paving the way for teenagers to start receiving vaccines as soon as this week. The vaccine would also need to be approved by a CDC vaccine advisory committee for youths in that age group, with approval …

Moderna is now touting that its vaccine is 96% effective in teens ages 12-17. The drug maker recently announced the results of its Phase 2 trial in reporting for their first-quarter earnings. The vaccine has already generated $1.7 billion in revenue in its fiscal first quarter. Moderna’s announcement also comes …

Pfizer is looking to release its own at-home treatment for COVID-19, and it comes in pill form. By the end of the year, Pfizer, the company that produced the very first authorized coronavirus vaccine, could have an at-home pill that helps people fight the virus when they first see signs …

The president and CEO of Emergent BioSolutions, the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer, sold more than $10 million worth of stocks before millions of doses of the vaccine were ruined at a Baltimore facility. According to the Post, Robert G. Kramer sold off shares of the company in late …

The Atlanta University Center Consortium announced Monday that all students, faculty, and staff at its institutions would be required to be completely vaccinated by the start of the fall semester if they expect to return to campus in the fall of 2021. Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, Morehouse School of …

This morning, federal officials recommended that states avoid using Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine until an investigation into six unusual, but severe clotting problems in women who received the vaccine is conducted. The clotting problem is similar to one that has been identified following the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, …

California is running low on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as the eligibility for the shots expands. The state is expected to see a 15% decrease in vaccine supply and a 88% drop in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. As of late Wednesday, California Governor Gavin Newsom revealed that this …

President Joe Biden is expediting the eligibility date for the COVID-19 vaccine. The President announced on Tuesday that the vaccine would be available to all adults on April 19. “Let me be deadly earnest with you: We aren’t at the finish line. We still have a lot of work to do. …

Morgan Freeman is urging people receive the COVID-19 vaccine in a new public service announcement. The 83-year-old “Invictus” actor appeared in a commercial in collaboration with the Creative Coalition and the National Blue Ribbon Task Force titled “Be There. This Is Your Shot.” He acknowledged that people tend to follow …

The Food and Drug Administration is investigating after 15 million Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines were destroyed. Employees at a chemical plant in Baltimore run by Emergent Biosolutions mixed up ingredients from two vaccines that they were manufacturing. While this does not affect Johnson & Johnson vaccines created in the …

Former White House coronavirus response coordinator Deborah Birx believes that hundreds of thousands of deaths “could have been mitigated” in the pandemic’s earlier stages. During a CNN documentary, which is scheduled to air on Sunday, Birx was asked how much of an impact early mitigation measures would have had on …