Abbott CEO Robert Ford said Thursday the company’s development of tests for Covid-19 has opened a “new set of channels” to address future public health crises and disease outbreaks beyond the coronavirus pandemic.
This is not merely "Moderna’s vaccine". We should call this “the People's vaccine" or "NIH’s vaccine." Federal scientists helped invent it and taxpayers are funding its development. Now we are being asked to pay to get it.
In 2019, Scott Gottlieb, former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner, argued against throwing in the towel on biosimilars, as some other experts had advised. Gottlieb was right. The growth in biosimilar market share from late 2018 until now has been fairly remarkable.
From frozen food to contaminated freight, some ways of spreading Covid-19 go unnoticed in countries where disease surveillance is crippled by a constant influx of new cases. That doesn't mean they're inconsequential.
However, if the U.S. is ever going to get control of this virus and enable a return to normalcy, people need to get vaccinated. Based on all of the data to date, there is no reason not to. People should get vaccinated as soon as they are able.
With news of a Covid-19 vaccine roll-out, but misinformation and mistrust still current issues we face, our conversations around this subject need to be even more mindful.
The former presidents acknowledged that some people may be hesitant to take the new vaccines developed at record-breaking speed and, in some cases, with a previously unused technology.
The vaccines will be given to long-term care residents and staff, followed by high-risk healthcare workers who work directly with people infected with the virus.
The United States and a vast majority of European nations voted in favor of removing cannabis from Schedule IV of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs.