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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Philadelphia health officials beat the clock. Hundreds of doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine set to expire on Thursday were given out just in the nick of time. Also on Thursday, Pennsylvania’s former secretary of health who’s now in the Biden administration visited Philadelphia with words of praise for the vaccine rollout. READ MORE: EXCLUSIVE: Philadelphia Police Hope Break In 1957 Unsolved Murder Leads To The Boy In The Box's Identity The fear that the vaccine would be wasted did not happen, but it was a big scramble to get shots into arms before it expired. At the same time, the city was hosting a special guest. Dr. Rachel Levine, the assistant health secretary to President Joe Biden, was at the Pennsylvania Convention Center at a critical time. This is one of several sites around the city distributing the Pfizer vaccine. A big batch of the vaccine was set to expire at 12 p.m. Thursday. On Tuesday, Philadelphia had 4,000 doses out of the deep … [Read more...] about Philadelphia Health Officials Beat Clock, Administer Hundreds Of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Before Expiration

(CNN) — The Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Covid-19 vaccines were found in the real world to be 94% effective against Covid-19 hospitalization among fully vaccinated adults ages 65 and older in the United States, according to a new US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study. The study also found that the vaccines were 64% effective among those older adults who were partially vaccinated, meaning they had only received one dose of vaccine so far. READ MORE: Man Admits To Being Drunk, High While Walking With Shotgun Near Elementary School In Amador County, Deputies Say These findings are consistent with the vaccines’ clinical trial results, which showed an efficacy of about 94% to 95%, researchers from the CDC and several other institutions noted. “These data suggest that continuing to rapidly vaccinate U.S. adults against COVID-19 will likely have a marked impact on COVID-19 hospitalization and might lead to commensurate reductions in post-COVID conditions and deaths,” … [Read more...] about CDC Study: Pfizer, Moderna Vaccines Reduce COVID-19 Hospitalization Risk By 94% Among Older Adults

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Shannon Bott came down with COVID at Thanksgiving. “It was just the worst I ever felt. I’ve had bronchitis, I’ve had the flu. And it was much worse than either of those. And it went on for so long,” she says. “I definitely was extremely sore, feverish, no energy for close to a month.” READ MORE: On A Positive Note: 9-Year-Old Girl From Butler County On Mission To Spread Kindness She wishes there had been a pill she could have taken to shorten the illness and make it less severe. “There was such worry about how was this going to progress, is it going to get worse? People just all of a sudden go from doing okay to not being okay. Having some sort of treatment that mitigates that would have been fantastic,” she says. Pfizer is working on that: a pill you would take early on, just after symptoms start, similar to taking Tamiflu for the flu. “This is, hopefully, something we could roll out at the first sign of illness, to keep you from ever having to come … [Read more...] about Pfizer Testing Single-Dose Pill To Treat COVD-19

Motorists make their way past a sign announcing “Pfizer Today” available at the Cal State Los Angeles COVID-19 vaccine site in Los Angeles, California on Monday. Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images The Food and Drug Administration is preparing to authorize the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for adolescent kids aged 12-15 years within a week, according to federal officials who spoke with the New York Times . If and when that happens, it would mark the first time any coronavirus vaccine has been authorized for emergency use for Americans under the age of 16 — a long-awaited development for countless parents in the U.S. , as well as the beginning of a new phase in the country’s vaccine rollout. Pfizer has previously reported that its vaccine was found to be as effective in the 12-15 age group as it was in adults, with no additional side effects, in its clinical trial involving adolescents. (The side effects were in line with what recipients aged … [Read more...] about FDA Will Authorize Pfizer COVID Vaccine for Ages 12 and Older: Report

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to authorize Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine for youngsters ages 12 to 15 by next week, according to a federal official and a person familiar with the process, setting up shots for many before the beginning of the next school year. The announcement is set to come a month after the company found that its shot, which is already authorized for those age 16 and older, also provided protection for the younger group. READ MORE: May The 4th Be With You: Star Wars Day Gets Tribute In MassDOT Highway Signs The federal official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to preview the FDA’s action, said the agency was expected to expand its emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s two-dose vaccine by early next week, and perhaps even sooner. The person familiar with the process, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal matters, confirmed the timeline and added that it is expected that the FDA will approve Pfizer’s … [Read more...] about Pfizer Vaccine For Kids Ages 12 To 15 Expected To Get FDA Approval By Next Week