After 110,000 deaths ravaged the nation’s nursing homes and pushed them to the front of the vaccine line, they now face a vexing problem: Skeptical residents and workers balking at getting the shots.
Economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has set back decades of progress against the most severe forms of malnutrition and is likely to kill 168,000 children before any global recovery takes hold, according to a study released Monday by 30 international organizations.
A federal official on Monday said the complexity associated with Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine is not the sub-freezing storage requirements, but instead the large volume of 975 doses per package.
The first person in one state to receive the long-waited COVID-19 vaccine called the jab a “moment of hope” in the fight against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
The United States surpassed 300,000 coronavirus deaths on Monday, the same day that saw the first doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine distributed to select health care workers in several states.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams joined faculty and administrators of George Washington University Hospital on Monday as the first doses of the facility’s initial coronavirus vaccine doses were administered.
Amid mass deliveries of the first wave of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccines, Gen. Gustave Perna, Operation Warp Speed chief operating officer, said 55 of the 145 initial distribution sites received shipments by around noon on Monday.
The first shots of Pfizer and BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine were administered on Monday, with the initial jabs of the country’s nearly 3 million doses going to health care workers in several states.
Here's a look at what the states have planned for coronavirus vaccine distribution, according to each state’s COVID-19 vaccination plan submitted to the CDC.
Following mass deliveries of the first coronavirus vaccine doses, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams told "FOX & Friends" that Monday marked "the beginning of the end" to the pandemic.
The first dose of New York’s coronavirus vaccine supply went to a health care worker who spent the last 10 months working the front lines as the illness ripped through the state.
The U.S. will administer its first doses of Pfizer’s recently approved coronavirus vaccine on Monday, Dec. 14, as part of a historic mass vaccination effort, while related deaths tick toward the 300,000 mark.
