BCBST Staff, BCBST News Center, June 3, 2021 KEY TAKEAWAYS The BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee Foundation awarded a $541,700 grant to promote COVID-19 vaccinations in Northeast Tennessee The grant funds educational outreach and vaccine delivery to the area’s underserved populations …
How the BlueCross Foundation is helping build trust in COVID vaccines in Chattanooga
BCBST Staff, BCBST News Center, June 2, 2021 KEY TAKEAWAYS In the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that less than 15% of the Hispanic community and less than 10% of the Black community have received at …
COVID-19 vaccines safe and effective for pregnant people, NIH director says
Katie Kindelan, ABC News, June 1, 2021 Two new studies show Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines appear to be “completely safe” and effective for pregnant people, according to Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Collins wrote in …
Transplants Force Patients to Amass Vaccinations to Beat COVID
Elaine Chen, Bloomberg, June 1, 2021 For Jennifer Woda, two doses of the Moderna Inc. vaccine were not enough protection against the Covid-19 virus. Over a month later, she got a third and fourth dose, this time with the Pfizer Inc.–BioNTech SE vaccine. An …
U.S. begins study testing mix-and-match COVID vaccine booster shots
Berkeley Lovelace Jr., CNBC, June 1, 2021 The National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday it has started an early stage clinical trial looking at what happens when an adult who is fully vaccinated with one type of Covid-19 vaccine, like Pfizer’s, …