Coronavirus Vaccine

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said the department is 'evaluating the request'.

Novavax Inc. said Thursday that its COVID-19 vaccine appears 89% effective based on early findings from a British study and that it also seems to work — though not quite as well — against new mutated strains of the virus circulating in that country and South Africa.

Tim Zook's final Facebook post shared his excitement about getting his second COVID-19 vaccine shot. His widow now thinks he may have suffered a fatal reaction to it. His official cause of death is still pending.

Oregon health workers who got stuck in a snowstorm on their way back from a COVID-19 vaccination event went car to car injecting stranded drivers before several of the doses expired.

Towards the end of the event,  200 perishable vaccine doses were left, so, the doses were given to school superintendent  Kris Cosca and others.

Proof of vaccination will reportedly need to be provided to receive payment.

Teachers and child care workers will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccine in early March, state health officials said Tuesday.

A former hospital pharmacist accused of sabotaging hundreds of doses of a COVID-19 vaccine has entered a plea agreement to federal charges relating to the case.

President Joe Biden gave his administration’s plan Tuesday to get more vaccines to states quicker - as well as announced he’s purchased an additional 200 million doses, calling his strategy a “wartime effort.”

Vice President Kamala Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff got their second round of the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.

The World Health Organization released recommendations for the Moderna vaccine, saying it is “currently not recommended” for pregnant women unless they are at high risk of exposure.

The Biden administration is giving states an approximately 17% boost in coronavirus vaccine next week following complaints around the U.S. of shortages so severe that some vaccination sites had to cancel tens of thousands of appointments with people waiting for their first shot.

President Joe Biden said Monday he’s confident the U.S. will be soon be vaccinating 1.5 million people per day - getting the country “well on our way” to herd immunity by summer.

President Joe Biden unveiled a massive $1.9 trillion stimulus package proposal that aims to combat the coronavirus and begins to pump up a U.S. economy. 

An investigation was underway, following the death of a person who died shortly after receiving a vaccine for the coronavirus in Placer County last week.

Google announced this week it’s taking several major steps to help get vaccines to more people, including opening several of its own mass vaccination clinics.