Brittany Weiner, WSMV, June 16, 2021 NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) – It has been exactly six months since Tennessee administered its first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer’s vaccine had just received emergency approval from the FDA days before the first …
More evidence suggests COVID-19 was in US by Christmas 2019
Mike Stobbe, AP News, June 15, 2021 NEW YORK (AP) — A new analysis of blood samples from 24,000 Americans taken early last year is the latest and largest study to suggest that the new coronavirus popped up in the …
Novavax Says Its COVID Vaccine Is Extremely Effective
Joe Palca, NPR, June 14, 2021 The first results from a large efficacy study of a new kind of COVID-19 vaccine are now out, and they are good. Very good. According to Novavax, the vaccine’s manufacturer, it had a 100% …
As COVID-19 cases wane, vaccine-lagging areas still see risk
Dylan Lovan and Leah Willingham, AP News, June 13, 2021 New COVID-19 cases are declining across most of the country, even in some states with vaccine-hesitant populations. But almost all states bucking that trend have lower-than-average vaccination rates, and experts …
U.S. has administered 308.1 mln doses of COVID-19 vaccines, CDC says
Staff Writer, Reuters, June 12, 2021 The United States has administered 308,112,728 doses of COVID-19 vaccines and distributed 374,397,205 doses in the country as of Saturday morning, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Those figures were up …