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FDA’s Vaccine Efforts Expand to Developing Public Confidence - American Medical Association
Scientists at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have devoted countless hours to ensuring that the COVID-19 vaccines being deployed and those in the development pipeline are safe and effective. But it’s another task being done outside of the lab…
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Industry Voices — COVID-19 vaccine development was a historic achievement. We'll need cutting-edge technology to make sure it ends the pandemic - Fierce Healthcare
After nine months of suffering, isolation and economic downturn on an unprecedented international scale, the expedited development and approval of COVID-19 vaccines has shown us the light at the tunnel’s end. Having an end in sight is not the same as…
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What if we captured the spirit and urgency of Covid-19 research to cure cancer?
In recent months, scientists and policymakers around the globe have rallied together with one common goal: to eliminate Covid-19. Budgets have been revised to funnel money toward research, competitive barriers between scientists and companies have been…
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Vaccine hesitancy part 2: Effective strategies for a human-centered health campaign - Atlantic Council
Trust is health’s most valuable player COVID-19 has made clear that the politicization of health is incredibly dangerous; the health of billions of individuals is at stake, but so too is trust in pharmaceutical companies, in the scientific process, and…
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Leading Health Care and Infectious Disease Experts Join Together to Discuss COVID-19 Vaccine Safety, Equity and Distribution - Associated Press
December 17, 2020 (Washington, D.C.) As Americans patiently await their turn for COVID-19 vaccination, a group of leading medical, health equity and public policy experts discussed and answered questions as part of a national briefing today about…
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US Agency Grants Approval of Pfizer's COVID Vaccine And Doses Are Expected in Days - Science Alert
US regulators have authorised the first coronavirus vaccine for emergency use, marking an inflection point in the pandemic and kicking off what's set to be the largest vaccination campaign in US history.
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Countdown to a Coronavirus Vaccine - The New Yorker
On a hot afternoon in August, Debbie Honeycutt walked into the crowded waiting room of the Medical Center for Clinical Research, an experimental-treatment facility tucked inside a squat office building in San Diego. She was volunteer number four hundred…
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Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research Honored with Advocacy/Policy Award from Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA - PR Newswire
NEW YORK, Dec. 9, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF) has received the Advocacy/Policy Award from the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration. MJFF is the second organization ever to…
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Surescripts Fireside Chat with Dr. Amy Abernethy, Principal Deputy Commissioner and Acting CIO, FDA
Tom Skelton, CEO of Surescripts, recently spoke with Dr. Amy Abernethy of the FDA, about the impact of COVID-19 and the evolving data needs of public health.    
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We may soon have a COVID-19 vaccine. But will enough people take it? - Reuters
ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - With COVID-19 vaccine trial results looking positive, governments and pharmaceutical firms face their next daunting challenge: convincing the world to get inoculated. Public resistance to vaccines has been much discussed this…
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