According to the latest data from the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker, 127 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered in the United States to date. The country is averaging close to 2.5 million doses a day, and that number should continue to rise as eligibility expands leading up to May 1st, which is when President Biden …
A new directive from the CDC advises that women who received the COVID-19 vaccine SHOULD wait about four to six weeks before getting a mammogram. The new advisory comes in the wake of reports that the vaccine can cause swelling in the lymph nodes that can be mistaken as an indication of cancer. The issue …
As anyone who received a COVID vaccine sourced from Pfizer or Moderna can attest, the flu-like symptoms that can occur post-injection typically manifest after the second dose. More often than not, the only symptoms people experience after the first injection are limited to minor swelling and pain around the point of injection. At first glance, …
During a recent appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked which of the three vaccines available in the US — Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson — was his favorite. While the question was clearly a bit of a joke, it did have some seriousness to it to the …
For a short time, back when the initial COVID-19 vaccine supply was alarmingly low, some health experts floated the idea of using existing vaccine doses that had already been set aside for second injections. The theory, at the time, was that it would be more strategic and effective to vaccinate a larger group of people …
Here’s one of many indications that the coronavirus vaccines are working — and that they’ll continue to have a strong, positive effect on the US as we get deeper into the year and closer to the end of the pandemic. The US has hit another milestone in the race to vaccinate as many Americans as …
All of the still-living former US presidents, minus President Trump, have filmed a public service message in which they praise the coronavirus vaccine, urge all Americans to get vaccinated as soon as possible — and are shown with rolled-up sleeves getting vaccinated themselves in the ad. One of the reasons that President Trump, the only …
According to Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker, 93.7 million does of coronavirus vaccine have been administered in the US as of Wednesday afternoon — an effort that’s now proceeding at a pace of 2.11 million doses per day, on average, being administered. At that pace, it will take until September for 75% of the US population to …
One of the reasons why Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID vaccines engendered so much excitement is that both vaccines didn’t cause any serious side effects in volunteers during clinical trials. At worst, people who experienced side effects described symptoms similar in nature to what one might experience with the flu. And in instances where side effects …
In a radio interview on Monday with Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on KNX-AM in LA, White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci got a bit wistful and started listing off some of the activities he’s most excited about doing again post-pandemic — once coronavirus cases are way down, and once most of us …
