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| | Financial Times ($) FT People of the Year: BioNTech’s Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci By developing a Covid vaccine in less than a year, the couple achieved a remarkable scientific and business success. Read more |
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Nikkei Asian Review Turkey to deploy Chinese COVID vaccine as Beijing aims for clout ISTANBUL — Turkey, one of the worst-hit countries in the Middle East by the coronavirus, is rushing to deploy vaccines as quickly as possible, and the Chinese are eager to help. Read more | |
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| | ProPublica Vaccinating Black Americans Is Essential. Key States Aren’t Doing the Work to Combat Hesitancy States and the federal government also don’t reliably collect data so we won’t have a good idea of whether the vaccine is reaching these critical populations. Read more |
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Wyo File The COVID-19 vaccines’ long, cold trip to Wyoming When a nurse pierced emergency room worker Patrick Almond’s right arm with a syringe holding 0.3 milliliters of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Jackson on Wednesday, it marked the end of a long, cold trip for the concoction named BNT162b2. Read more Editor’s Note: Several articles on this list deal with the logistics of the different vaccines. Here the team at non-profit Wyo File looks at how the historic shots made it to them. – Christopher Brennan, Editor | |
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| | Wall Street Journal ($) The Mass Distribution of Covid-19 Vaccines Is Under Way. ‘Everything Has to Come Together.’ Trucks filled with Covid-19 vaccine vials pulled out of Pfizer Inc.’s Kalamazoo, Mich., production plant on Sunday morning, part of one of the largest mass mobilizations since the country’s factories were repurposed to help fight World War II. Read more |
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Politics Home Make use of local resources to achieve rural roll-out of the vaccine The beginning of the end is in sight. But if remote areas of the UK are to get there safely, some community planning is required Read more | |
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| | Down to Earth India Lateral Thoughts: A paradigm change in clinical trials The rich and famous are clamouring to get the ‘experimental’ COVID-19 vaccine Read more |
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11 Alive As COVID vaccine arrives in Atlanta, rural areas of Georgia continue to wait ATLANTA — As they watched a COVID-19 vaccine arrive at many of the hospitals around the Atlanta area today, directors of clinics in some of Georgia’s smaller communities and rural areas told 11Alive don’t know when they will receive doses of the vaccine. Read more | |
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| | CNBC CVS Health, Walgreens start to provide Covid vaccines at thousands of hard-hit nursing homes CVS Health and Walgreens are starting to give Covid-19 vaccinations to residents and staff at nursing homes and assisted living facilities, making them among the first Americans to receive the shots. Read more |
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Financial Times ($) Moderna Covid vaccine set to receive US approval The US drugs regulator will grant emergency approval to a second coronavirus vaccine in the coming days, a decision that will make it the first country to have authorised two inoculations against the virus. Read more | |
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| | Star Tribune University of Minnesota grocery store worker antibody study to help unlock COVID-19 clues A University of Minnesota study of COVID-19 in grocery store workers could help solve vexing questions about the true spread of the infectious disease and guide state strategies to slow it down before the vaccine is broadly available. Read more |
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New York Times With First Dibs on Vaccines, Rich Countries Have ‘Cleared the Shelves’ As a growing number of coronavirus vaccines advance through clinical trials, wealthy countries are fueling an extraordinary gap in access around the world, laying claim to more than half the doses that could come on the market by the end of next year. Read more | |
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| | CNN The EU is plagued with divisions. Covid-19 vaccines are a golden chance to redeem the European project The EU is plagued with divisions. Covid-19 vaccines are a golden chance to redeem the European project Read more Editor’s Note: In Europe, securing vaccines was handled by the European Commission. Here Kara Fox digs into the rollout and what it means for the bloc going forward. – Christopher Brennan, Editor |
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North Jersey Some NJ religious leaders urge faithful to take the COVID vaccine, despite some moral qualms As Pfizer rolls out its much anticipated COVID-19 vaccine at hospitals across the country this week, many religious leaders are urging their followers to receive it with open arms — despite moral qualms by some faithful. Read more | |
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| | Times Now News India may need to spend $1.8 billion on COVID vaccines in first phase: The math, explained At the other end of the spectrum, if only 95 to 125 million doses were received by India from the COVAX initiative, the nation’s procurement cost rises markedly to $1.8 billion Read more |
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Philippine Daily Inquirer Philippine lawmakers: Missed Pfizer deal smells of ‘kickvac’ Sen Kiko Pangilinan on Thursday (Dec 17) said some government officials may be held liable for graft over the government’s failure to secure a deal for 10 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine that US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had helped to arrange for the Philippines. Read more | |
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| | Tampa Bay Times DeSantis says Florida shipments of vaccines are ‘on hold.’ Pfizer disagrees. TALLAHASSEE — Less than a week into its program to vaccinate millions of residents to protect them from the coronavirus, Florida has hit a potential speed bump. Read more |
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Enterprise IoT Insights Covid-19 vaccine shipments – a defining public proof-point for IoT tracking? If there was ever a critical proof-point for the efficacy of IoT technologies, then this is it: the coordinated global shipment of coronavirus (Covid-19) vaccines. This is the moment, arguably, in late 2020, going into 2021, when the world’s gaze falls obliquely on the covert industrial trend of massive-scale ‘sensorization’. This is the time when the world appears critically reliant on the twin IoT disciplines of asset tracking and asset monitoring. Read more | |
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| | Tennessee Lokoout As COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, health care officials work to allay mistrust in Black, immigrant communities For many Tennesseans, the COVID-19 vaccine is a one-size-fits-all solution to returning to pre-pandemic normalcy, but for Black and immigrant Tennesseans, the trials and pending vaccinations are exposing long-standing health inequities in minority communities. Read more |
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Voice of America Thai Firm Joins with AstraZeneca to Make COVID-19 Vaccine for Southeast Asia KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA – Thailand says a local laboratory’s pact with Britain’s AstraZeneca will make the Southeast Asian country the regional hub for supplies of what’s likely to be one of the leading vaccines against COVID-19 as governments scramble to lock in supplies. Read more Editor’s Note: While Europe and North America are starting their campaigns, other parts of the world are preparing. Here VoA looks into Thailand’s plans to become a regional hub for vaccine supplies in Southeast Asia. – Christopher Brennan | |
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