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Moderna vaccine set for United States approval and could be shipped within hours
A panel of outside advisers to the FDA overwhelmingly endorsed the emergency use of Moderna's coronavirus vaccine on Thursday. The committee voted 20-0 with one abstention that the benefits of the vaccine outweigh its risks in people aged 18 and older, one week after the same panel backed a similar vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech , leading to an FDA emergency use authorisation a day later. [Full Article...]
Strip Clubs Lead the Way: Judge Blocks San Diego Coronavirus Restrictions
Judge Wohlfeil added that the ruling for strip clubs also applied to "San Diego County businesses with restaurant services", making them exempt from shutdowns. Gov. Gavin Newsom was dealt a loss by a San Diego Superior Court judge, who ruled against the California governor's executive order that shuttered strip clubs. [Full Article...]
Supreme Court denies request to block Covid restrictions at Kentucky schools
They said that even with the impending expiration, the court should have blocked the order because for now it remains in dispute, and that the dispute "remains live". Beshear commented Thursdsay on the Supreme Court's ruling during his routine COVID-19 update. "The second thing is, in no way were religious schools treated any differently". [Full Article...]
European Union agency moves forward meeting on Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
Health Canada approved the vaccine last week. Health-care providers can use all the liquid in each vial, though they shouldn't combine vaccine from separate vials, FDA spokeswoman Abby Capobianco said in a statement. Ontario's Health Minister says plans are in the works to provide documentation for residents who receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The Pfizer/BioNTech shot is also an mRNA vaccine. [Full Article...]
US FDA panel recommends Moderna vaccine
The agency issued the guidance Wednesday after health care workers reported throwing out the excess vaccine, fearing it would be against the rules to use it. The U.S.is also expected to give the first vaccines to high-risk health care workers and residents of nursing homes, but their system is decentralized with states making priority decisions. [Full Article...]
AOC: Time for Pelosi, Schumer to Go
As for the newly minted congresswoman, the speaker position is not something she is ready to tackle - yet. There "was just an extreme disdain for this moneyed political establishment that rules Washington". But, she told The Intercept in a podcast interview Wednesday, much of her discontent stems from the fact that the caucus' current top crop has been hogging power without "any real grooming of... [Full Article...]
Extra doses in Pfizer vaccine vials can be used, FDA says
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) did not respond to a request for comment. The Food and Drug Administration announced the news Wednesday, after multiple hospital pharmacists reported leftover doses in vials containing the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine . [Full Article...]
Northern Ireland's Covid nightmare before Christmas
On Tuesday, queues of ambulances were witnessed at accident and emergency departments across Northern Ireland as patients were treated in auto parks due to a lack of capacity inside the hospitals. 656 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Northern Ireland in the past 24 hours. Mr Swann also revealed that by Thursday evening, nearly 10,000 people in Northern Ireland had received their firs... [Full Article...]