Unlike the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the Oxford-AstraZeneca candidate doesn’t have to be stored at ultra-cold temperatures, making it easier to distribute.
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Pfizer seeks OK for emergency use of COVID-19 vaccine in U.S.
The public’s first chance to see how strong the evidence of its effectiveness really is will come in early December at a public meeting of the FDA’s scientific advisers.
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Who will get the first COVID vaccines? States race to decide
Most Americans shouldn’t expect to get a vaccine at their doctor’s office or pharmacy for many months.
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Pfizer says COVID-19 vaccine is 95% effective, safe for seniors
The team is preparing within days to formally ask U.S. regulators to allow emergency use of the vaccine.
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Experts fear lessons from the H1N1 vaccine distribution in 2009 are being ignored
The most frequently cited lesson from the H1N1 response may already be hampering the upcoming distribution of the coronavirus vaccines: the danger of overly ambitious government messaging.
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Insight: Nothing will be easy about COVID vaccine
Buying doses for everyone on Earth, storing the vaccine, shipping it and administering it will be difficult and expensive.
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Trump touts progress on vaccine in first remarks since election loss
The president rules out a nationwide ‘lockdown’ but appears to acknowledge the decision won’t be his much longer.
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Three Sanford students given flu shots without parents’ approval
During a flu shot clinic put on by Northern Light Health Care, 3 students in the school district were administered a flu vaccine without proper consent.
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UK to infect healthy volunteers in vaccine research trial
This type of research, known as a human challenge study, is used infrequently because some consider the risk involved in infecting otherwise healthy individuals to be unethical.
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Young, healthy people may have to wait until 2022 for vaccine, top WHO scientist says
Any vaccine that is ready next year will be available in limited quantities, with health-care workers and others on the front lines having first priority.