Category: Vaccine

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine Won’t Get US Approval Until April 2021: Official

The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca is not likely to be authorized for emergency use in the United States until April 2021, Operation Warp Speed’s chief scientific adviser Moncef Slaoui said Wednesday. “We project, if everything goes well, that the readout and emergency use authorization may be granted somewhere early in the…


Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Says Willing to Take Vaccine ‘But I Am Not the Priority’

Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters on Dec. 30 that he is willing to take the vaccine for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) virus but has not done so because he is not in one of the groups prioritized to received the vaccine first. “I’m willing to take it, but I am not the…


Swiss Authorities Say Link Between COVID-19 Vaccine and Death of 91-Year-Old Recipient ‘Highly Unlikely’

Swiss drugs regulator Swissmedic announced on Wednesday that it was “highly unlikely” that there was a link between the death of a 91-year-old person in the canton of Lucerne and the COVID-19 vaccine. “Clarifications carried out by the cantonal health authorities and Swissmedic determined that as a result of the illness history and the course…


‘Significant Portion’ of COVID Vaccines in Texas May Be Sitting on Shelves, State Urges Quick Action on Shots: Abbott

Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott said Tuesday that a “significant portion” of COVID-19 vaccines might still be sitting on hospital shelves rather than being administered to vulnerable Texans, adding that the decision to get inoculated is “always voluntary.” Abbott made the remarks in a tweet, in which he also said that stockpiles of the vaccine are…


Biden Vows to Speed Up COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts If He Wins White House

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday vowed to accelerate the administration of COVID-19 vaccines if he enters the White House next month. Biden told a press conference in Delaware that the plan from President Donald Trump’s administration to distribute vaccines “is falling behind, far behind.” “We’re grateful to the companies, the doctors, the scientists,…


UK Approves Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine

Britain approved a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca on Wednesday, which was hailed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as “a triumph for British science.” The government said it had accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Experts at the MHRA concluded that the vaccine had met its strict standards of…


UK Becomes First to Approve Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine

Britain approved a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca on Wednesday, which was hailed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as “a triumph for British science.” The government said it had accepted the recommendation from the Medicines and Healthcare Products Experts at the MHRA concluded that the vaccine had met its strict standards of…


Orange County Paramedics Tapped to Administer COVID-19 Vaccine

Some fire department paramedics in Orange County, California, are being trained to administer COVID-19 vaccinations, in a move officials hope will help alleviate the workload of hospital nurses and doctors. “Because hospital staffing is overworked, they don’t have the [manpower] to inoculate people,” Supervisor Doug Chaffee told The Epoch Times. “We are getting paramedics trained,…


Students Could Return to California Campuses by Fall, Says Fauci

The country’s top infectious disease specialist says he’s hopeful California campuses will reopen for in-person instruction by next fall. “It’s extremely important to get children back into school and kept in school,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said Dec. 18 during a live video conference to California State University leaders. “I will push and I believe it…


The Nation Speaks (Dec. 28): Dr. Simone Gold and Dr. Richard Urso at Turning Point USA Student Action Summit

Tonight we bring you the last of our special episodes from Turning Point USA Student Action Summit 2020 in West Palm Beach, Florida. We had the chance to sit down with two doctors who gained a lot of attention this summer—both negative and positive—for their views on how to treat COVID-19.