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Pharmacy Director Vahid Rohani prepares a COVID-19 vaccine Thursday at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. Nurses were scheduled to vaccinate over 200 St. Mary’s health care workers. A 40 percent shortfall in the number of doses Maine will have next week means the state cannot fully launch its retail pharmacy program aimed at vaccinating residents and staff members of long-term care facilities.
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The federal government has told the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention that the number of Pfizer vaccines available to the state next week will be nearly 40 percent lower than expected.
This 107-year-old woman beat Covid-19
From CNN s Kay Jones and Amanda Jackson
Tillie Dybing. Ecumen
Tillie Dybing is a survivor.
At the age of 107, the Minnesota woman recently beat Covid-19 after being diagnosed this fall, according to officials at the Ecumen Detroit Lakes community home, where she has lived since 2015.
This isn t the first pandemic Dybing has lived through. Born in 1913, she was almost 5 years old when the 1918 flu pandemic hit her family farm in North Dakota, she told CNN affiliate KARE. My folks got sick and they were in bed, and I d run into the bed and my Dad said, Can t you find another place to run, she said.
FDA advisory committee today is expected to scrutinize Moderna on vaccine reaction The FDA is recommending surveillance of Bell s palsy after four Moderna trial participants developed the temporary facial paralysis.
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Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, receives the first Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in the U.S. on Dec. 14. (Photo courtesy Northwell Health)
In its review of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, the Food and Drug Administration s advisory committee today is expected to question the Bell s palsy reaction in four of its trial participants.
The FDA is recommending surveillance of Bell s palsy after three Moderna trial participants who received the vaccine and one who got a placebo developed the temporary facial paralysis that causes drooping on one side of the face.
One in every six doses of the first
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines distributed in the US this week were disposed of due to confusion over labelling, Stat News reported.
On Wednesday, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clarified that extra doses from vials of the vaccine can be used.
The Pfizer vials are supposed to hold five doses, according to the labelling, however US media reported that pharmacists had found a way for a sixth or even a seventh dose.
But without clear approval from the manufacturer, the extra doses had to be discarded. Advertisement
The FDA later said in a statement that it is acceptable to use every full dose obtainable .