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Statement by President Joe Biden on FDA and CDC Authorizing Novavax’s COVID-⁠19 Vaccine for Adults

Today is another step forward in our nation’s fight against the virus. Following an independent scientific review by the Food and Drug Administration last week and today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Novavax’s protein-based COVID-19 vaccine for adults has been authorized. We now have four safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines available to ...
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By | 19 July, 2022 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News | Tags: ,

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FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces Allocation Plan for 55 Million Doses to be Shared Globally

These doses are the remaining part of the 80 million President Biden pledged to allocate by the end of June Today, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing the distribution list for 55 million of the 80 million doses of America’s own vaccine supply President Biden has pledged to allocate by the end of June in service ...
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By | 21 June, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, News from Washington, President of the United States, Vice President of the United States | Tags: ,

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U.S. Administration Unveils Strategy for Global Vaccine Sharing, Announcing Allocation Plan for the First 25 Million Doses to be Shared Globally

FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Unveils Strategy for Global Vaccine Sharing, Announcing Allocation Plan for the First 25 Million Doses to be Shared Globally As we continue to fight the COVID-19 pandemic at home and work to end the pandemic worldwide, President Biden has promised that the United States will be an arsenal of vaccines for ...
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By | 3 June, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News | Tags:

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Remarks by President Biden Marking the 150 Millionth COVID-19 Vaccine Shot

THE PRESIDENT:  Good afternoon, everyone.  I just visited a vaccination clinic in Virginia, at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. The seminary and other houses of worship in the area are partnering with the community health centers to offer vaccination and vaccination sites.  They’re seeing these kinds of partnerships where — and not just ...
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By | 6 April, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, President of the United States | Tags:

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Statement by President Joe Biden on Emergency Use Authorization of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine

Today, after a rigorous, open, and objective scientific review process, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for a third safe and effective vaccine to help us defeat the COVID-19 pandemic — the Janssen COVID-19 (Johnson & Johnson) vaccine. This is exciting news for all Americans, and an encouraging development in our ...
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By | 27 February, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, News from Washington, President of the United States | Tags: ,

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Remarks by President Biden at an Event Commemorating the 50 Millionth COVID-19 Vaccine Shot

South Court Auditorium Eisenhower Executive Office Building 3:19 P.M. EST THE PRESIDENT:  Well, thank you all.  Dr. Fauci, thanks for your leadership, thanks for being here. Two weeks ago, I spent some time with you and Dr. Francis Collins — excuse me — the Director of the National Institute of Health, at NIH, and gave ...
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By | 25 February, 2021 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, News from Washington, President of the United States | Tags: ,

Khamenei deprives Iranian people of COVID-19 vaccines

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is banning highly effective coronavirus vaccines from Iran because they are made in the United States and other Western countries. “I really do not trust” them, Khamenei said January 8, announcing the ban on two widely used vaccines produced in the United States and the United Kingdom,  the Associated Press reports . “Sometimes ...
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By | 14 January, 2021 | Topics: Human Rights, News, News from Washington | Tags: , ,

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Readout from the Trump Administration’s 43rd Governors Briefing on COVID-19 Response & Best Practices

Today, Vice President Mike Pence led a discussion with the chief executives and senior leaders of approximately 50 states, territories, and the city of Washington, D.C., and the White House Coronavirus Task Force to discuss local, state, and federal COVID-19 response and recovery efforts including the continued collaboration on vaccine distribution and administration planning. The ...
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By | 30 November, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, President of the United States | Tags: , ,

How vaccines work

As people worldwide await approval of one or multiple COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S., it’s important to understand how vaccines work. Several vaccine candidates against the novel coronavirus have shown promise in animal studies. Now, clinical trials are underway to find out if these same  vaccines are safe  and effective in humans. Vaccines 101 “Vaccines work by training ...
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By | 22 October, 2020 | Topics: Education, Health Issues, News | Tags: , ,

U.S. scientists collaborate in worldwide search for COVID-19 cure (May 18)

U.S. scientists collaborate in worldwide search for COVID-19 cure (May 18)   U.S. researchers are joining forces with scientists around the world to find solutions that will end the COVID-19 pandemic. The collaboration ranges from experiments to adapt a measles vaccine to prevent COVID-19 to efforts to understand how the human immune system’s antibodies attack ...
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By | 18 May, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News, Science & Tech, U.S. Agencies | Tags: ,

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Remarks by President Trump on Vaccine Development (May 15)

Remarks by President Trump on Vaccine Development (May 15)   THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  Thank you very much.  It’s very hot today.  Please, sit down.  This is going to be a very hot one, and we apologize to everybody out there that’s going to suffer through it.  But you know what?  It’s better ...
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By | 15 May, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, Key Officials, News, News from Washington, President of the United States | Tags: ,

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The U.S. Is Leading the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Developing a Vaccine (May 4)

The U.S. Is Leading the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and Developing a Vaccine (May 4)   As outlined in its recent Action Plan, the United States is bringing together the brightest minds in U.S. government agencies, the private sector, universities, and overseas partners to develop vaccines and therapeutic interventions to protect the world from ...
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By | 4 May, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News, News from Washington | Tags: ,

U.S. Scientists are getting closer to a vaccine to keep the world safe from COVID-19 (April 10)

U.S. Scientists are getting closer to a vaccine to keep the world safe from COVID-19 (April 10)   Several U.S.  partnerships are already testing vaccines  on humans — a major step toward showing the drug is safe and effective. Others are figuring out new ways to administer and deliver a vaccine when it’s ready. The scientists at U.S. companies and ...
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By | 10 April, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News, News from Washington, Science & Tech | Tags: ,

U.S. and French colleagues work together on COVID-19 cure (March 26)

U.S. and French colleagues work together on COVID-19 cure (March 26) By Noelani Kirschner Two scientists who met through the J. William Fulbright international exchange program are part of a worldwide hunt to find existing drugs that can be used to treat the COVID-19 virus. As a U.S.-France Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair in spring 2015, Benjamin R. tenOever ...
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By | 26 March, 2020 | Topics: Health Issues, News, News from Washington | Tags: , ,

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