The biggest employers are successfully enacting vaccine mandates. Many smaller ones need help
Miller has found the vaccine is a tough sell, and nothing like the workplace flu shot campaigns she’s run in the past. The covid-19 vaccine drives a politicized wedge between those eager to take it and those who proclaim they never will, and she is forced to try to knock down insidious misinformation and assuage genuine fears without appearing too heavy-handed at the snack company based in Hanover, Penn.
washingtonpost.comWhat to Know About Boosters if You Got the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine
Americans who received the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines should get a booster shot eight months after their second vaccine dose, federal health officials said Wednesday. The boosters will be available beginning Sept. 20, if the Food and Drug Administration agrees to the plan. They will go first to health care workers, nursing home residents and older adults, who were the first to receive the initial round of vaccinations after they were authorized in December. But the recommend
news.yahoo.comChanges to your menstrual cycle? Sore eyes? We asked a doctor about ‘strange’ COVID vaccine side effects
If you received your COVID-19 vaccine, you likely knew about what to expect in terms of side effects: Perhaps a mild headache, chills or body aches, a slight fever, a sore arm or maybe a bit of fatigue.
What Parents Need to Know About the Covid Vaccine For Their Kids | River City Live
Thanks to the availability of a COVID-19 vaccine, life is beginning to return to some pre-pandemic normalcy. Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 12 through 15. The FDA previously gave this vaccine emergency use authorization for people age 16 and older.
COVID-19 vaccination clinics offered to major office buildings in Chicago and around Illinois
The state and city of Chicago are partnering with building owners to make vaccination clinics available to workers in major commercial buildings in downtown Chicago and other cities across Illinois
chicagotribune.comAre Covid vaccine passports really viable?
Jacksonville, Fla. – Airlines and others in the travel industry are throwing support behind vaccine passports hoping to boost pandemic-depressed travel. “Any program that differentiates between people that are vaccinated versus people that are not is only as fair as vaccine distribution itself. “The World Health Organization did release some guidance, but they can’t actually mandate compliance especially for private companies,” Asi said. It could begin a vaccine passport program by May, but Asi said the state might not need one by then. “And my hope is that we’ll have reached herd immunity by that time so these passports will be obsolete anyway.”
Can I take painkillers before or after a COVID-19 vaccine?
Can I take painkillers before or after a COVID-19 vaccine? The concern about painkillers is that they might curb the very immune system response that a vaccine aims to spur. AdThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently updated its guidance to recommend against painkillers before a COVID-19 shot. Read more here:What should I know about COVID-19 vaccines if I’m pregnant? How do we know the COVID-19 vaccines are safe?
Taiwan gives health workers island's 1st AstraZeneca doses
In this photo released by Executive Yuan, Taiwan's Premier Su Tseng-chang receives a shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, Taiwan, Monday, March 22, 2021. Health care workers received the first shots in Taiwan's COVID-19 vaccination drive Monday, beginning a campaign that won't use supplies from China amid uneven distribution of the vaccines globally. Taiwan has on hand 117,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which it is distributing to healthcare workers across 57 hospitals. Last week, more than a dozen nations suspended use of the AstraZeneca vaccine after a few dozen people among the millions who've received the vaccine developed blood clots. AdTaiwan has signed contracts securing 10 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, 5.05 million doses of the Moderna vaccine, and 4.76 million doses of vaccines through COVAX.
Panama Pharmacy getting 2,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine
Panama Pharmacy will be receiving 2,000 doses of the Pfizer Vaccine tomorrow morning. The first time, Panama Pharmacy received 400 vaccine doses. Kevin Duane, the owner of Panama Pharmacy, said health department officials reached out to him on Friday, saying they had an allotment of the Pfizer vaccine. Duane said the first time Panama Pharmacy received vaccines was in January. Duane said people in the Panama Park area trust the Panama Pharmacy, so he’s hoping vaccine numbers will go up.
Pastors encourage minority communities to get vaccinated
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Local and state pastors came together Friday to educate and encourage communities that have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19 to get the vaccine. “My friends, this virus has not taken a vacation, even in our own great state of Florida,” Holmes said. Ad“We’ve been meeting with community leaders, churches and politicians trying to get the word out,” said Ron Beesley, incident commander at the Gateway vaccination site. “We see a shift in our demographic, a positive movement on that part. But we are still seeing there is a lot of misinformation out there.”Since March 3, the five state and federal sites in Jacksonville have administered about 60% of the doses available between them, on average, each day.
30,000 vaccinations administered at FEMA sites in Jacksonville
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – State officials announced Thursday morning that the three FEMA-sponsored sites in Jacksonville, which includes Gateway Mall and two satellite sites, hit a milestone. Other data from Wednesday show:The satellite site at Oceanway Community Center can vaccinate 500 shots per day. The state vaccine site at Regency Mall has a capacity of 2,000 per day. The FEMA-sponsored site at the Gateway Mall in Jacksonville stopped accepting patients Thursday afternoon as a squall line of storms approached the area. AdThe Florida Emergency Management Division said the two satellite sites at Oceanway and Carver closed and would reopen Friday morning at 9 a.m.------The Associated Press contributed to this story.
EU regulator 'convinced' AstraZeneca benefit outweighs risk
Pharmacist Rajan Shah prepares a syringe of the AstraZeneca vaccine at St John's Church, in Ealing, London, Tuesday, March 16, 2021. “We are still firmly convinced that the benefits of the AstraZeneca vaccine in preventing COVID-19 with its associated risk of hospitalization and death outweigh the risk of the side effects,” said Emer Cooke, the head of the agency. AdThe AstraZeneca shot has already struggled to gain public trust after troubles with reporting of its data and concerns about its effectiveness in older people. In addition to the EMA, AstraZeneca and the WHO have said there is no evidence the vaccine carries an increased risk of blood clots. AdStill, the torrent of decisions casting doubt on the AstraZeneca vaccine despite assurances of experts is testing public opinion.
The Latest: China donates vaccine doses to UN peacekeepers
(AP Photo/Eric Risberg)UNITED NATIONS -- China’s U.N. ambassador says China is donating 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines to U.N. peacekeepers, with priority given to those serving in Africa. ___OSAKA, Japan — Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. is the latest drugmaker to offer help with production of a rival’s COVID-19 vaccine as their industry works to churn out billions of vaccine doses. Ad___LISBON, Portugal — Portugal is following other European Union countries and temporarily halting use of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine while experts review its safety. The Biden administration has informed Connecticut that it should be receiving a “significant” increase in vaccine doses over the next several weeks. Some 2.2 million of the 8.6 million vaccine doses of various brands delivered to Italy are AstraZeneca vaccines, so the temporary stoppage is likely to significantly hamper Italy’s current vaccine rollout.