Vaccine

President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration's efforts to distribute and administer Covid vaccine shots, saying the administration had failed to achieve its own goals."The Trump administration's plan to…

Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York State, speaks at a press conference in New York City on September 8, 2020.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesThe New York attorney general is investigating whether a health clinic in the state has fraudulently…

Since the race to develop a coronavirus vaccine began last spring, optimistic announcements have been followed by threatening polls: No matter how encouraging the news, more and more people said they would refuse to get the shot.The…

Turkish officials announced Thursday that a vaccine made by Chinese company Sinovac has an efficacy rate of 91.25 percent. However, the finding is based on preliminary results from a small clinical study, and none of the data has been…

LONDON - The end of the pandemic is finally in sight. This also applies to the rescue from the most traumatic global economic catastrophe since the Great Depression. With the entry of Covid vaccines into the bloodstream, recovery has…

Moderna's vaccine, like Pfizer's, is based on a molecule called messenger RNA, or mRNA, that is injected into the upper arm. Once inside human cells, the mRNA directs the production of a protein called spike, which teaches the immune…

The initial introduction of the polio vaccine did not go smoothly. Within one month, six cases of polio were linked to a vaccine manufactured by Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California. It soon emerged that Cutter hadn't completely…

Bazelon: We need them!Ezike: Law. However, I think there is a possible problem with the long-term care population. Many of these people may still die for other reasons, but then the conclusion might be, "Grandma got the vaccine and died…

UPS package handlers Jesirae Elzey and Demeatres Ralston unload boxes of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine when it arrives at UPS Worldport in Louisville, Kentucky on December 20, 2020.Michael Clevenger | Pool | ReutersCoronavirus vaccine…

US President-elect Joe Biden will receive a Covid-19 vaccination from Tabe Masa, nurse and head of health care for employees on December 21, 2020 on the Christiana Care campus in Newark, Delaware.Alex Edelman | AFP | Getty…