Month: March 2021

Ben Kothe / BuzzFeed News; Getty Images (3) Even as vaccines roll out, the pandemic’s holy grail — a drug to successfully treat COVID-19 — continues to elude medicine. On Monday, a World Health Organization panel called for scientists to quit researching hydroxychloroquine, the poster child for drugs that failed to work against the coronavirus. Meanwhile, more than 40,000 people are still hospitalized nationwide with COVID-19, and only a handful of mediocre therapies can help treat them. And with new variants threatening to thwart vaccines, finding drugs to fight SARS-CoV-2 is all the more urgent. “The bottom line of what we need to do looking forward, and the clear need in this,...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee advisory panel tasked with deciding in what order residents should receive the COVID-19 vaccine acknowledged that prison inmates in the state were high-risk, but concluded that prioritizing them for inoculation could be a “public relations nightmare.” The result: Prisoners are in the last group scheduled for vaccines in the state, even though the Pandemic Vaccine Planning Stakeholder group concluded that “if untreated they will be a vector of general population transmission,” according to records of the panel’s closed-door meetings obtained by The Associated Press. To date, there is no firm timeline for prison vaccine rollouts. The Tennessee debate reflects an issue facing states nationwide as they roll out life-saving vaccines: whether to prioritize ...

Michigan is expanding vaccine eligibility this month to include residents age 50 to 64 and caregivers of people with disabilities. The state has slightly more than 2 million residents in that age group, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. About 13% already have been vaccinated because they qualified through their jobs as essential workers. Michiganders 50 and older will soon be eligible for coronavirus vaccine Groups currently eligible to be vaccinated statewide include health care workers, long-term care workers and residents, first responders, corrections workers, childcare and school staff, staff in congregate care facilities, mortuary service workers, workers in food processing and agricultural settings, and residents 65 years and older. Here is what people need to know about t...

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