Category: Public Health

Texas vaccine site apologizes after denying shot to eligible recipient

By Becker's Hospital Review - Healthcare News in Becker's Hospital Review, Channels, Featured, Public Health
February 23, 2021

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FDA aims to quickly OK booster shots for variants; US passes 500,000 deaths — 6 COVID-19 updates

By Becker's Hospital Review - Healthcare News in Becker's Hospital Review, Channels, Featured, Public Health
February 23, 2021

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It’s Time to Get Back to Normal? Not According to Science.

By Victoria Knight in CDC, children's health, COVID-19, Kaiser Health News, KHN & PolitiFact HealthCheck, Public Health
February 23, 2021

With covid, and its newly emerging variants, still circulating throughout the nation and the world, experts say it is definitely not the time to abandon efforts to control the virus’s spread.

Calling All Vaccinators: Closing the Next Gap in Covid Supply and Demand

By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health News in COVID-19, Kaiser Health News, nurses, Public Health, Vaccines
February 23, 2021

In the herculean effort to vaccinate America, the emphasis so far has been on trying to increase the number of vaccine doses available. Soon there could be a shortfall in people to administer the shots.

After Billions of Dollars and Dozens of Wartime Declarations, Why Are Vaccines Still in Short Supply?

By Rachana Pradhan and Arthur Allen in Biden Administration, COVID-19, Kaiser Health News, Public Health, states, Trump Administration, Vaccines
February 23, 2021

The Trump and Biden administrations both imposed wartime production requirements. But industry experts say the vast quantities of raw materials and specialty equipment needed for billions of newfangled vaccines have required herculean logistical efforts.