January 27, 2021 Philadelphia sorting COVID-19 vaccinations after severing ties with ‘college students’ running distribution Philadelphia health officials are rearranging plans for COVID-19 vaccinations after the city severed ties with a group of young volunteers put in charge of mass vaccination efforts that resulted in canceled appointments and allegations of selling patient information.
January 27, 2021 Researchers exploring COVID-19 vaccine booster to combat variants, Fauci says While recently approved vaccines are believed to maintain efficacy against two newly detected coronavirus variants, research into what impact the South African mutation of the virus may have on the shots is ongoing.
January 27, 2021 Moderna COVID-19 vaccine ‘not recommended’ for pregnant women: WHO The World Health Organization (WHO) this week said that it does not recommend pregnant women receive the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at this time.
January 27, 2021 AstraZeneca expects COVID-19 vaccine data on UK variant within 2 weeks Investigators running the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine clinical trials expect an analysis within about two weeks on the jab's efficacy against the more transmissible strain initially detected in the U.K., a chief investigator said on a call on Wednesday.
January 26, 2021 Biden credits Trump on vaccine effort before adding program was in 'worse shape' than expected The president said that when he took office the program was not as far along as he had anticipated.
January 26, 2021 Casino CEO and wife pose as motel workers, travel to remote Canadian territory for COVID-19 vaccine A 55-year-old Canadian casino CEO resigned after he and his 32-year-old wife were nabbed for misleading authorities by traveling to a remote territory in Canada and posing as motel workers in order to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
January 26, 2021 Minnesota launches COVID-19 vaccine lottery for seniors Senior residents in Minnesota have been given 24 hours to partake in a COVID-19 vaccine lottery, which will involve doling out appointment slots in a randomized process instead of a frenzied first-come, first-serve basis.
January 26, 2021 France returns to 3 weeks between COVID-19 vaccine shots France abandoned plans to space out coronavirus vaccinations by six weeks instead of three.
January 25, 2021 Hollywood execs accused of using wealth, connections to obtain coronavirus vaccine Hollywood executives have been accused of using their connections to increase their chances of receiving a coronavirus vaccination.
January 25, 2021 Biden hopes for 1.5 million COVID vaccinations per day, after 'nothing we can do' comments President Biden says he’s “quite confident” that in roughly three weeks the nation will “be vaccinating people at the range of a 1 million a day or in excess of that.”
