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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Hank Rappaport

Jan Booher

John Girard

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Germany: Angela Merkel backtracks on Easter lockdown after uproar

Wed, 2021-03-24 13:44 — mike kraft

Merkel backtracks on Easter lockdown after uproar In a turnabout move, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told state premiers in a video call that there would not be a strict lockdown over Easter after all. This follows a day of criticism and confusion in Germany. Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com) DW.COM

erman Chancellor Angela Merkel and the leaders of Germany's 16 states will reverse their plan to toughen virus lockdown measures over Easter.

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List of states expanding coronavirus elegibility to those 26 and older

Wed, 2021-03-24 10:07 — mike kraft

More US states expanding coronavirus vaccine eligibility to general population Five US states have expanded coronavirus vaccine eligibility to anyone aged 16 and older, and at least 20 more plan to do so by the end of April. By <a href="/profiles/julia-hollingsworth">Julia Hollingsworth</a>, CNN CNN

Five US states have expanded coronavirus vaccine eligibility to anyone aged 16 and older, and at least 20 more plan to do so by the end of April.

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U.S. COVIS-19 Overview, more states open vaccines to all, end restrictions

Wed, 2021-03-24 09:59 — mike kraft

More states open vaccines to all, end restrictions; white students more likely to be inside classrooms: Live COVID-19 updates Experts are warning of a fourth surge of coronavirus cases as new variants spread rapidly through the U.S. Latest COVID-19 news. Elinor Aspegren and Adrianna Rodriguez USA TODAY

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E.U. planning to Curb Covid Vaccine Exports for 6 Weeks

Tue, 2021-03-23 21:58 — mike kraft

BRUSSELS — The European Union is finalizing emergency legislation that will give it broad powers to curb exports for the next six weeks of Covid-19 vaccines manufactured in the bloc, a sharp escalation in its response to supply shortages at home that have created a political maelstrom amid a rising third wave on the continent.

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America's COVID-19 future depends on the vaccine-hesitant

Tue, 2021-03-23 21:12 — mike kraft

America Is Now in the Hands of the Vaccine-Hesitant A subset of Americans haven’t yet made up their mind about getting a COVID-19 shot. Whether they turn out in the coming weeks will determine the future of the pandemic. Daniel Engber The Atlantic

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U.S. health officials and an oversight board accused AstraZeneca of presenting potentially misleading information

Tue, 2021-03-23 15:57 — mike kraft

Federal health officials and an independent oversight board accused AstraZeneca of presenting the world with potentially misleading information about the effectiveness of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine, an extraordinary blow to the credibility of a company whose product has been seen as critical to the global fight against the pandemic.

In a two-page letter to AstraZeneca and federal authorities on Monday, an independent panel of medical experts that was helping oversee the vaccine’s clinical trial in the United States said the company had essentially cherry-picked data that was “most favorable for the study as opposed to the most recent and most complete.”

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COVID-19 unique new vaccines in the works, using a variety of approaches o.

Tue, 2021-03-23 11:59 — mike kraft

Here’s what makes 4 promising COVID-19 vaccines unique | Science News More vaccines still in the works are exploring a variety of approaches, including pills and electrical zaps. mike Science News

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Some poorer nations could wait years to get vaccinations--Kenya example

Tue, 2021-03-23 11:21 — mike kraft

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It was three months after rich countries began vaccinating health workers, but Kenyans like the nurse, Stella Githaiga, had been left behind: Employed in the country’s largest public hospital, she caught the coronavirus on an outreach trip to remote communities in February, she believes, sidelining her even as Kenya struggles with a vicious third surge of infections.

Ms. Githaiga and her colleagues are victims of one of the most galling inequities in a pandemic that has exposed so many: Across the global south, health workers are being sickened and killed by a virus from which doctors and nurses in many rich countries are now largely protected.

That is just the most visible cost of a rich-poor divide that has deepened in the second year of the pandemic. Of the vaccine doses given globally, roughly three-quarters have gone to only 10 countries. At least 30 countries have not yet injected a single person.

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