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Dollar General Leads Way in Paying Workers to Get Shots

Employees would receive a half-day's pay for being vaccinated

(Newser) - "We do not want our employees to have to choose between receiving a vaccine or coming to work," Dollar General said. So the company has announced it will give its workers who receive a coronavirus vaccination four hours' pay, the Washington Post reports. The company wants to remove...

California Wants Pause in Use of Moderna Batch

Several people at a vaccination site needed medical treatment after shots

(Newser) - California's state epidemiologist is urging a halt to more than 300,000 coronavirus vaccinations using a Moderna version because some people have received medical treatment for possible severe allergic reactions. Dr. Erica Pan on Sunday recommended providers stop using Lot 41L20A of the Moderna vaccine pending completion of an...

State Gives Vaccine Priority to Smokers

New Jersey teachers 'incensed' at the decision

(Newser) - Teachers in New Jersey are furious over the state's vaccination rollout, which gives priority to smokers over educators. Now that some 300,000 coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered to frontline health care workers, residents of long-term care homes, police officers, and firefighters, New Jersey has begun offering vaccines...

Over-65s Can Now Get Vaccinated in California

Tuesday set yet another record for COVID deaths

(Newser) - California is immediately allowing residents 65 and older to get scarce coronavirus vaccines. Gov. Gavin Newsom's announcement Wednesday allows seniors to join the already eligible next tier of emergency workers, teachers, childcare providers, and food and agriculture workers—even as counties complain they already don’t have enough doses...

Chinese COVID Vaccine Results Fuel New Concerns

Sinovac vaccine is far less effective than initially reported

(Newser) - "It is not the best vaccine in the world." So said a Brazilian microbiologist of a vaccine created by China that the developing world had held high hopes on. Scientists with the Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo on Tuesday said late-stage trials established the efficacy rate of the...

More People Are Now Eligible for Vaccination
Feds Shift Strategy on Vaccine
Jan 12, 2021 9:08 AM CST

Feds Shift Strategy on Vaccine

Plan to speed up distribution includes getting vaccines into pharmacies

(Newser) - The Trump administration is asking states to speed delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and older and to others at high risk by no longer holding back the second dose of the two-dose shots, officials said Tuesday, per the AP . Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that...

Doctor Dies Two Weeks After COVID Vaccination

Medical authorities are investigating Dr. Gregory Michael's death

(Newser) - Gregory Michael, an obstetrician in Miami Beach, got his first dose of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccination on Dec. 18. Some two weeks later, he was dead, CBS12 reports. “He was a very healthy 56 year old,” wife Heidi Neckelmann writes on Facebook , adding, “He was a pro...

New US Variant May Be Behind Surge
New US Variant
May Be Behind Surge
Jan 8, 2021 4:20 PM CST

New US Variant May Be Behind Surge

White House task force warns strain could be 50% more transmissible

(Newser) - The UK variant of the coronavirus may not be the only new strain to be concerned about. The White House coronavirus task force has told states that the US might have its own new strain that's 50% more transmissible. That would partly explain the current surge in cases, the...

Iran: Vaccine From US, Britain Can't Be Trusted

With more than 1.3M infections, nation already is struggling to contain outbreak

(Newser) - Calling them "completely untrustworthy," Iran has prohibited importing coronavirus vaccines produced by the US or Britain. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made the announcement Friday in a televised address, the Guardian reports. "It's not unlikely they would want to contaminate other nations," he said. Mentioning the Pfizer...

Biden Announces Big Shift in US Vaccine Strategy

He plans to release nearly all doses immediately, instead of holding supplies back for 2nd shot

(Newser) - Joe Biden on Friday announced a big and controversial shift in strategy on coronavirus vaccines. When he takes office, Biden will order the immediate release of almost all available doses, reports CNN . Under the current strategy, about half the doses are being held back so people already vaccinated can receive...

&#39;Reassuring&#39; News on Those COVID Variants
Pfizer Reports Good News
on Fast-Spreading Strains
new study
Jan 8, 2021 10:50 AM CST

Pfizer Reports Good News on Fast-Spreading Strains

Its vaccine appears to protect against them

(Newser) - New research suggests Pfizer's COVID vaccine can protect against a mutation found in two easier-to-spread strains that erupted in Britain and South Africa . The variants carry multiple mutations but share one in common that's believed to be the reason they are more contagious, per the AP . Called N501Y,...

Governor Has Bad News for Undocumented Workers on Vaccine

Nebraska's Pete Ricketts suggests undocumented meatpacking employees won't be eligible to get it

(Newser) - Nebraska is where you'll find the bulk of the nation's meatpacking, so it makes sense that Nebraska is where the most coronavirus cases are popping up in meatpacking plants . What doesn't make sense to some are comments from the state's governor that suggest a portion of...

When Freezer Broke, Hospital Had 2 Hours to Use Up Vaccine

Community members lined up to help and to receive a dose

(Newser) - It's a pain when anyone's freezer goes out. When it happens at a hospital, and that freezer is storing 830 doses of coronavirus vaccine, it's a crisis. By the time the staff at a hospital in northern California realized Monday that the Moderna vaccine was thawing, it...

He Was Giving the COVID Shot When He Saw the Ring

Paramedic Robby Vargas-Cortes proposes to nurse inoculating him: his boyfriend, Eric Vander Lee

(Newser) - Good news: Your fiance snagged an appointment to get the coronavirus vaccine. Better news: You're the nurse who has the honor of administering it to him. Best news of all: He proposes to you right before you stick the needle in his arm. That's the sweet story out...

Another Slippery COVID Variant Emerges

It's unclear whether vaccines will be effective against 501.V2

(Newser) - Another new coronavirus variant has been found, this time in South Africa, where experts worry it will be resistant to vaccines now being rolled out around the world. Shabir Madhi, a scientist who led trials for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in South Africa, says there is a "theoretical" but "...

Pharmacist Who Spoiled Vaccine Said It Was 'Unsafe'

Police say Wisconsin man thought it would mutate DNA

(Newser) - A Wisconsin pharmacist who was fired and arrested after allegedly deliberately spoiling hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine told police he thought they were unsafe, prosecutors said during a hearing Monday. Ozaukee County District Attorney Adam Gerol said Steven Brandenburg, 46, made a "full confession" to police after officials...

Delay the Second Shot? A COVID Debate Unfolds

Some advocate delaying the 'booster' until everyone gets at least the first dose

(Newser) - With US vaccination numbers way behind schedule , health authorities are sounding out a number of possibilities to get the numbers up. One is to halve the dose of the Moderna vaccine in order to stretch out supplies, a proposal the FDA is expected to consider this week. But as the...

US Considers New Strategy on Vaccinations

It may give people half the dose of Moderna's vaccine to increase numbers

(Newser) - The US is well behind its stated goal on COVID vaccinations, and federal authorities will consider a new strategy this week to improve the numbers. The idea is to give people half the dose of the Moderna vaccine in order to double the number of recipients who could get it,...

UK Takes Another 'Giant Step' on Vaccine Front

Britain is now administering the world's first AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID vaccinations

(Newser) - Britain on Monday took another giant step in the fight against COVID-19, ramping up its immunization program by giving the first shots in the world from the vaccine created by Oxford University and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca. Dialysis patient Brian Pinker, 82, was the first to get the new vaccine, administered...

In This Nation, Few Take COVID Seriously

Mitigation efforts are missing in Somalia, which will be among the last to receive vaccines

(Newser) - As richer countries race to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, Somalia remains the rare place where much of the population hasn't taken the coronavirus seriously. Some fear that's proven to be deadlier than anyone knows. "Certainly our people don’t use any form of protective measures, neither masks nor...

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