Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today issued a letter to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar demanding an explanation for the secretary s false claim
Amid access hurdles, grassroots efforts underway to get COVID-19 vaccine to at-risk people of color Nada Hassanein and Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY
How COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting people of color
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Donis Hernández spent three hours Wednesday trying to register his 77-year-old father for a COVID-19 vaccination appointment.
The Las Vegas construction worker and his dad have been waiting for this moment. Hernández works at construction sites where four of his co-workers have contracted COVID-19. He worries about his dad, who lives with him.
But when he finally got through on the newly opened online portal for seniors, appointments already were booked through June.
Alabama vaccine distribution worst in the nation
Updated Jan 17, 2021;
Today’s guest columnist is Frank McPhillips.
When a deadly pandemic collides with exponential growth, the result is frightening. We have reached that point in Alabama, and we must speed up the distribution of vaccines.
During October, roughly 30,000 Alabamians contracted COVID-19. By November, the number rose to 42,500 in one month. In December, the number of cases more than doubled to 111,000. And, January’s cases are rising even faster than December’s.
As of this writing (January 12), more than 400,000 Alabamians have contracted the virus since the first official case on March 12, and the death toll stands at 5,347. It’s not easy to comprehend the magnitude of 400,000 cases. That is virtually equivalent to every man, woman and child living in Mobile County, our second most populous county. No other state with our population has witnessed nearly so many cases.
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The Department of Health and Human Services is paying a private firm to review the accuracy of some Covid-19 tests the latest example of the department’s political leadership attempting to bypass scientists at the Food and Drug Administration.
The idea behind the last-minute contract, announced days before President Donald Trump leaves office, is that HHS would use the review to issue emergency use authorizations for the tests without input from FDA.
It comes as the health department has scrambled to force through several new FDA regulations sometimes without the agency’s knowledge, and sometimes over its objections.
Despite promise from Trump Administration, COVID-19 vaccine reserve appears to be exhausted
The Washington Post reports that the reserve started being distributed in December, and is gone; despite promise from HHS Secretary Alex Azar on Tuesday that the federal government would begin distribution of reserve.
By: McKenna King
and last updated 2021-01-16 19:09:22-05
President-elect Joe Biden announced that he ll use the Defense Production Act to maximize manufacture of the COVID-19 vaccine.
A Washington Post report first broke the news the United States COVID-19 vaccine reserve is depleted. At this time, ABC News is working to confirm this information with the federal government.