CNBC, Berkeley Lovelace Jr., Dec. 10, 2020 A key Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 17 to 4 with one member abstaining on Thursday to recommend the approval of Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, the last step before the FDA …
Governors promise rapid distribution of COVID-19 vaccine
Johnson City Press, Dec. 8, 2020 Four southern governors pledged at a White House “vaccine summit” Tuesday that their states are ready to begin distributing COVID-19 vaccines as soon as the vaccines are made available. Read the full article on …
Trading COVID-19 vaccines, regular deliveries, tracking doses: What we know about Operation Warp Speed distribution
USA Today, Elizabeth Weise, Dec. 8, 2020 Five percent of all produced COVID-19 vaccine will be held back for emergencies, and states will have the option of trading vials within the government’s ordering system to get the kind they want. Those …
COVID-19 vaccines set to arrive in Tennessee after months of uncertainty
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Elizabeth Fite, Dec. 5, 2020 Tennessee’s first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine is expected to arrive at 27 hospitals across the state around Dec. 19, and those most at-risk from the serious and deadly COVID-19 infection will begin to …
Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: FDA Authorizes First COVID-19 and Flu Combination Test for use with home-collected samples
FDA, Dec. 4, 2020 Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the first diagnostic test for at home collection of patient samples to detect both COVID-19 and influenza A and B (flu). The FDA authorized Quest Diagnostics RC COVID-19 …