Jul 08 How a coronavirus vaccine will get to market By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas Here's a look at some of the top contenders in the effort to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as the challenges public health officials will face when that vaccine is finally ready for use. Continue reading
Jul 02 WATCH: CDC chief, health officials testify on COVID-19 vaccine By Associated Press The Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies Subcommittee will hold a hearing July 2 on protocols related to a future COVID-19 vaccine. Continue reading
Jun 23 WATCH: Fauci says COVID-19 vaccine could possibly be made available by end of 2020 or start of 2021 By Lauran Neergaard, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The government's top infectious disease expert told a House committee on Tuesday he remains "cautiously optimistic" that some will be ready at the end of the year. Continue reading
Jun 19 How ‘vaccine nationalism’ could hurt vulnerable populations By Ana Santos Rutschman, The Conversation Should the U.S. be able to pre-order vaccines for its citizens when other populations around the globe are at greater risk?… Continue reading
Jun 15 Watch 7:40 Meet people volunteering to be exposed to COVID-19 for vaccine research By Amna Nawaz, Mike Fritz, Maea Lenei Buhre As the world anxiously awaits development of a vaccine for COVID-19, new and controversial research measures are being considered for the first time. These include the possibility of deliberately exposing volunteers to the disease to see if they are infected. Continue watching
May 21 Why experts are cautious about Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine trial By Helen Branswell, STAT While Moderna blitzed the media, it revealed very little information — and most of what it did disclose were words, not data. Continue reading
May 14 WATCH: Whistleblower Rick Bright says country missed ‘critical steps’ to prepare for pandemic By Associated Press America faces the "darkest winter in modern history" unless leaders act decisively to prevent a rebound of the coronavirus, says a government whistleblower who alleges he was ousted from his job after warning the Trump administration to prepare for the… Continue reading
May 12 WATCH: Fauci says U.S. has ‘many’ vaccine candidates and ‘hope to have many winners’ By Associated Press Despite the rapid pace of work on vaccines, Dr. Anthony Fauci was offering no guarantees: “The big unknown is efficacy.”… Continue reading
Mar 16 Coronavirus vaccine test opens as U.S. volunteer gets 1st shot By Lauran Neergaard, Carla K. Johnson, Associated Press With a careful jab in a healthy volunteer's arm, scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle begin an anxiously awaited first-stage study of a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed in record time after the new virus exploded from… Continue reading