RAC Vaccines and Vaccination Group

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Wed, 2021-01-13 11:16 — mdmcdonald

RAC Workgroup Efforts Focused on Vaccines and Vaccination

The Resilient American Communities (RAC) Vaccines and Vaccination Group is examining and acting on the issues surrounding vaccines development, distribution, vaccination logistics and execution, as well as vaccination strategy, safety, efficacy, trust, and hesitancy. Special attention is currently focused on COVID-19 vaccines and vaccination.

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Lessons learned: Why Michigan's approach lagged behind Minnesota's

Thu, 2021-06-10 11:55 — mike kraft

Michigan bet big on mass vaccine events for COVID-19. It didn’t work out as hoped. Michigan focused COVID-19 vaccines on public health sites, not hospitals or doctors' offices. It lagged other states in vaccinating whites and Blacks. Aleszu Bajak

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ANALYSIS: Which groups in the US are still dying of COVID-19-- South still lags in vaccinations

Thu, 2021-06-10 11:01 — mike kraft

Which Groups Are Still Dying of Covid in the U.S.? Deaths have dropped precipitously since their January peak, but the coronavirus continues to claim several thousand lives per week. The New York Times

Deaths from Covid-19 have dropped 90 percent in the United States since their peak in January, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Moderna asks FDA to clear COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents

Thu, 2021-06-10 10:11 — mike kraft

Moderna asks FDA to clear COVID-19 vaccine for adolescents Moderna on Thursday said it has filed a request with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use its coronavirus vaccine in adolescents as young as 12 years old. Nathaniel Weixel TheHill

Moderna on Thursday said it has filed a request with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use its coronavirus vaccine in adolescents as young as 12 years old.

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Reactions to US plan to donate another 500 million vaccine doses to other nations

Thu, 2021-06-10 10:03 — mike kraft

Celebrations (and questions) greet US vaccine donation plan CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Health officials and experts around the world on Thursday welcomed a U.S. plan to donate 500 million more COVID-19 vaccines to developing countries, but the celebrations came with hesitation. AP NEWS

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Biden administration vaccinating some unaccompied migrant children against COVID-19

Wed, 2021-06-09 19:14 — mike kraft

Biden administration vaccinating migrant children against COVID-19 The Biden administration is vaccinating some unaccompanied migrant children against the coronavirus, a top Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official said Wednesday. Nathaniel Weixel TheHill

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Houston Methodist hospital system suspends 178 health workers for refusing COVID-19 vaccination

Wed, 2021-06-09 17:45 — mike kraft

178 health care workers suspended from Houston Methodist hospital system for refusing COVID-19 vaccination Scores of workers at a Houston Methodist hospital system have been suspended and face being fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccination. John Bacon USA TODAY

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COMMENTARY: Epidemiology, not geopolitics, should guide COVID-19 vaccine donations

Wed, 2021-06-09 14:51 — mike kraft

Commentary: Epidemiology, not geopolitics, should guide COVID-19 vaccine donations --Lancet

With COVID-19 vaccine supplies shifting from scarcity to abundance in high-income settings, such as Canada, the EU, the USA, and the UK, the June 11–13, 2021, Group of Seven (G7) summit in Cornwall, UK, is the time when leaders from those countries should act on their promises to send surplus COVID-19 vaccine supplies to the many other countries where doses remain scarce.

Vaccine donations are not the only solution to the gap that has emerged between countries with and without sufficient doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Yet, the potential number of surplus vaccine doses purchased by G7 nations is likely to be in the hundreds of millions or more.

Vaccine manufacturers based in those countries have also offered to sell more than a billion doses at cost for use in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) in 2021, which G7 governments could buy and donate.

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U.S. expected to provide additional 500 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses to 100 nations over the next year

Wed, 2021-06-09 14:24 — mike kraft

The U.S. is expected to provide 500 million Pfizer-BioNTech doses to 100 nations over the next year

The White House has reached an agreement with Pfizer and BioNTech to provide 500 million doses of coronavirus vaccine to about 100 countries over the next year, a pact that President Biden plans to announce as early as Thursday, according to multiple people familiar with the plan.

Under intense pressure to do more to address the global vaccine shortage and the disparities in vaccination between rich and poor nations, the president hinted at the plan Wednesday morning, when he was asked if he had a vaccination strategy for the world.

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