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News Articles: covid-19 vaccine

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in partnership with Boston Children's Hospital and Castlight Health is launching a new tool which allows Americans to search for COVID-19 vaccine providers with stock of vaccine where they live.

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  • Health

CDC Launches Web Tool To Help Americans Find COVID-19 Vaccines

The process of trying to get vaccinated can be confusing. A new platform from the federal government and private sector partners makes it easier to find a provider where you live.

February 25, 2021
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
A medical worker gives a coronavirus vaccine shot to a patient at a vaccination facility in Beijing, in January. Two pharmaceutical companies in China announced Wednesday they are seeking market approval for new vaccines.

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  • Asia

Chinese Pharmaceutical Makers Seek Approval For New Coronavirus Vaccines

If approved, the new vaccine candidates would give China a total of four OK'd for general distribution. Even so, the country's vaccine drive appears to be falling short.

February 24, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
A health care worker looks away as she's immunized with Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine at Klerksdorp Hospital in Klerksdorp, South Africa, on Feb. 18.

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  • Health

FDA Analysis Of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Finds It Safe, Effective

The Food and Drug Administration released an analysis of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday morning that appears to support its authorization for emergency use.

February 24, 2021
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By:
  • Scott Hensley
At a Kedren Community Health Center vaccine clinic in South Central Los Angeles this month, 89-year-old Cecilia Onwytalu (center) signals she's more than ready to get her immunization against COVID-19.

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  • Health

Race Versus Time: Targeting Vaccine To The Most Vulnerable Is No Speedy Task

The Biden team wants to swiftly vaccinate people of color and others most vulnerable to COVID-19. But health centers are learning that speed and achieving racial equity don't always go hand in hand.

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
As a young woman, pregnant and HIV-positive, Maurine Murenga did not have easy access to drugs that could save her life. Today she is an activist for equitable health-care. The global distribution of coronavirus vaccines is an issue of concern.

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  • Global Health

History Repeats Itself: COVID-19 Vaccine Inequities Echo HIV Crisis

People were dying of a disease that could be treated — but in poor countries, they did not have access to medicines that could help. That was the story of HIV — and now of COVID-19.

February 23, 2021
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By:
  • Eyder Peralta
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine in Edinburg, Texas, last year. The Rio Grande Valley, a four-county region that stretches across Texas's southernmost tip, remains one of America's most afflicted areas, with the highest hospitalization rates, deaths at more than twice the state average, overwhelmed hospitals and refrigerated trucks serving as back-up morgues.

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  • National

Texas Vaccination Site Apologizes For Refusing COVID-19 Shots To 2 Eligible People

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley turned away people because they could not prove they live in the United States. Proof of residency and citizenship are not required under state rules.

February 23, 2021
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  • Kristen Cabrera
The mass vaccination site in Macon on Monday, February 22.

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  • Health

Demand Varies Across The State On First Day Of Mass Vaccination

Four mass vaccination sites are now open across the state. They’re being run by the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency.

February 22, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge and
  • Grant Blankenship
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced in late December that residents older than 80 would be able to receive doses of the vaccine from their county health departments.

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  • National

West Virginia's Vaccination Rate Ranks Among Highest In World

How did West Virginia become one of the world's leaders in delivering COVID-19 vaccines? One piece of the story starts with a striking photograph in the local paper.

February 22, 2021
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  • Simone Popperl,
  • Noel King,
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  • Global Health

Coronavirus FAQs: Mammograms, Vaccine Ingredients ... And Dogs Who Sniff Masks

Are there issues with having a mammogram right after a vaccine? Is there a list of vaccine ingredients — some people say they're scary. Also: My pooch loves to sniff discarded masks. Should I worry?

February 19, 2021
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By:
  • Sheila Mulrooney Eldred and
  • Pranav Baskar
Amanda Bordeaux, 36, gets her second dose of the Pfizer vaccine during a weekly mass vaccination clinic at the Rosebud hospital in South Dakota.

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  • National

Why Native Americans Are Getting COVID-19 Vaccines Faster

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is vaccinating its community at rates faster than the rest of South Dakota. That mirrors a trend in Indian Country, which has been hard-hit by the coronavirus.

February 19, 2021
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
Leyda Valentine, a research coordinator, takes blood from Lisa Taylor as she participates in a COVID-19 vaccination study at Research Centers of America in Hollywood, Fla., in August 2020.

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  • Health

Long-Term Studies Of COVID-19 Vaccines Hurt By Placebo Recipients Getting Immunized

Researchers are trying to learn more about COVID-19 vaccines from original study participants. The quest is hampered because many people who first received a placebo shot are opting for the vaccine.

February 19, 2021
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  • Richard Harris
covid-19 vaccine website

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  • Health

Kemp, DPH Open New Website To Register For COVID-19 Vaccination

Gov. Brian Kemp says within the next two weeks more Georgians will be eligible to register for vaccination appointments via myvaccinegeorgia.com.

February 18, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
How do you get a COVID-19 vaccine appointment? The answer varies by state.

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  • Health

How To Sign Up For A COVID-19 Vaccine In Your State

Use NPR's tool to find out where to start when it's your turn to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Plus, helpful advice about how to navigate the system.

February 18, 2021
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By:
  • Selena Simmons-Duffin
Nurse Modesta Littleman vaccinates patient Peter Sulewski in late January, on the first day of vaccinations at a clinic run by Health Care for the Homeless in Baltimore.

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  • Health

Vaccinating Homeless Patients Against COVID-19: 'All Bets Are Off'

A community health center is now immunizing the local homeless population. But vaccination logistics, already complex, are compounded by the additional barriers in communication and transportation.

February 17, 2021
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
A participant in the Tuskegee Study in the 1930s. A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous study.

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  • National

In Tuskegee, Painful History Shadows Efforts To Vaccinate African Americans

A lingering mistrust of the medical system among many Black people is rooted in the infamous 20th century U.S. study of syphilis that left Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., to suffer from the disease.

February 16, 2021
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By:
  • Debbie Elliott
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