When Can You Get The COVID Vaccine?
The COVID-19 vaccine will be available to millions of Americans this month, but who qualifies depends on certain factors.
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The COVID-19 vaccine will be available to millions of Americans this month, but who qualifies depends on certain factors.
"Keeping educators healthy keeps our kids in school and our economy going," the letter to Gov. Greg Abbott reads in part.
"I'm not gonna lie. The first thing I thought about was my family and I wanted to be there for my grandkids," said David McClure.
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken an especially harsh toll on frontline healthcare workers. The promise of vaccines considered a light at the end of a very dark tunnel.
Parkland, UT Southwestern, Methodist Dallas and Texas Health Harris are set to get the largest deliveries with 5,850 doses each.
The race to a COVID-19 vaccine is both part solution and potential dilemma for those opposed to immunizations because according to the law, employers can require it.
"Our campus-based educators are on the front lines every day," Dr. Scribner wrote in a letter to Gov. Abbott.
"We look at the data ourselves and we number crunch the data ourselves, so we'll drawl own conclusions from the data." FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn told CBS 11.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott and the Texas Department of State Health Services [DSHS] released "guiding principles" on Monday, November 23 regarding how the state will distribute a COVID-19 vaccine once available. Texas officials said COVID-19 vaccines could be expected as early as December.
As drugmakers seek federal approval, the Texas Nurses Association says they're training on how to deploy the COVID-19 vaccine and the equipment needed to store it.
Pfizer said Friday it is asking U.S. regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine.
Tom Thumb and Albertsons pharmacies will receive a direct allocation of the COVID-19 vaccine once it is authorized or approved and recommended for use in the U.S.
Lucia does not know if she's getting the vaccine or a placebo.
"It's a press release, not a peer reviewed article that's gotten out there after much vetting from experts, but that being said it's super exciting," said Dr. Joseph Chang.
Coronavirus cases in the United States are surging. Over the last seven days the number of confirmed infections sends the average daily case totals to heights not seen since the pandemic began.
A Houston-based biotech company developing techniques to deliver vaccines via nasal spray for viruses like COVID-19 has entered an exclusive license option agreement with the University of Houston.
A COVID-19 vaccine could be available by November, but not for everyone, said CDC director Robert Redfield while testifying in front of a U.S. Senate subcommittee.
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"We have urgency but we are not going to cut any corners in respect to our review of it," said FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn.
A Department of State Health Services spokesperson said the agency is working with the Centers for Disease Control, which has warned a vaccine could be available soon.
Experts hope that already-established practices, such as social distancing and wearing masks, will keep numbers down.
Pharmacists in all 50 states are now allowed to give childhood vaccinations under a new directive aimed at preventing future outbreaks of measles and other preventable diseases.
The precautions people are taking to prevent getting COVID-19 could also decrease the number of flu cases this fall.
Depending on the type of vaccine, this improved version of the protein could reduce the size of each dose or speed up vaccine production."
Data from Scientific American shows vaccination rates dropped to just 44% in Texas during March of this year.
