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“We are stressing to our districts to get vaccine moved from freezer to Oklahomans, preferably within a seven-day time period,” said Keith Reed, deputy commissioner of Oklahoma’s health department. “And this vaccine is really just sitting right now.” Every state…

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Sunday he has tested positive for Covid-19 and that the symptoms are mild. | Hector Vivas/Getty Images By ASSOCIATED PRESS 01/24/2021 08:05 PM EST MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador…

“To the extent that this is a backdoor to do that using our own government, we should not view that sanguinely, but we should be very concerned,” he said. An Amazon spokesperson rejected the idea that the company’s offer was…

Some syringes distributed by the federal government aren’t efficient enough to extract the sixth dose, leading hospitals to throw out precious vaccine. Earlier this month, officials from Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine accelerator, acknowledged the problem, and said…

Several state officials on Thursday pointed to supply shortfalls as the chief obstacle to their distribution efforts, adding that directives from both the outgoing and incoming administrations that states should widen their eligibility guidelines wound up depleting reserves. “What you’re…

Adding to the complexity, Xavier Becerra, Biden’s pick to lead the Health and Human Services Department that oversees FDA, wants a say in the commissioner choice, said two people familiar with the discussion. “The role of FDA commissioner is an…

So far the U.S. has seen about 23 million cases of Covid-19, with the number of new cases each day now averaging over 230,000. Daily deaths have averaged 3,312 over the last week, and about 130,000 people are hospitalized with…

Now, in the final days of the Trump administration, their “MP2” — later redubbed “Operation Warp Speed” — occupies a peculiar place in the annals of the administration’s ill-fated response to Covid-19: In many ways, it was successful, living up…

The infectious disease doctor said that hitting that goal will not only require ensuring vaccine supply but also having enough staff to administer the shots across the nation. She added that Biden is committed to using the Defense Production Act…

Biden added that despite scientists’ record-breaking vaccine development “the vaccine rollout in the United States has been a dismal failure so far.” Biden’s team envisions a billion-dollar national ad campaign aimed at convincing the majority of Americans to get vaccinated,…