Jack Horneman of Townville gets his COVID-19 vaccine from Missy Cooley, LPN, during the AnMed Health Covid-19 Vaccine clinic at the Anderson Civic Center Saturday, January 16, 2021. The Masimo Foundation does not provide editorial input. Phil Murphy on Friday eased restrictions on spectatorship at high school and youth sporting events. [34], On 20 January 2021, immediately after the end of the Trump administration, Azar along with other Trump administration officials were sanctioned by China. [20] Prices for drugs rose substantially under Azar's leadership, including the tripling of the cost of the company's top-selling insulin drug. CHEMED nurse and vaccine coordinator Tzipporah Zar shows a sticker patients get after they get their first shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at the Center for Health Education, Medicine and Dentistry in Lakewood, N.J., on Dec. 28, 2020. The vaccine was administered at Lee Health Gulf Coast Medical Center in Fort Myers, Fla. on Dec. 22, 2020. Karen MacDonald, a nurse at Gates Middle School in Scituate, Mass. The company's drug bamlanivimab was authorized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration late last year and has been used by 125,000 high-risk patients nationwide based on early-stage data suggesting it could be effective. [30], In spite of objections, his nomination was relatively smooth. Wyden also asked why said employees were not cleared to ensure that they had not become carriers of the disease before they were returned to their home stations. The two were having a pleasant experience and were watching the moon as it moved through the sky. This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Eli Lilly says monoclonal antibody cocktail cuts hospitalizations by 70% for high-risk COVID-19 patients, Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, A 90-year-old Seattle woman trudged three miles through 10 inches of snow to get her vaccine shot, Khamenei Tells U.S. to Act, Not Talk, as Nuclear Deal Flails, Here are some startling statistics about COVID-19 cases in the United States. VA pharmacist Wes Romanello carefully fills syringes of the COVID-19 vaccine to give to Chillicothe VA staff in Chillicothe, Ohio on Dec. 23, 2020. [66], Azar argued that the pharmaceutical industry was best poised to discover, manufacture, and market a vaccine for coronavirus. Seventy-three possible cases were being monitored in the U.S. [6][19] Azar left the position after the 2008 United States presidential election was won by Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama and the corporation wanted to replace Azar with a Democrat in that role. 13, 2020. Courtney Schneider, 40, of Grand Rapids and her son, Elliot Schneider, 8, of Grand Rapids wave flags at the FedEx plane carrying the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at the Gerald R. Ford International Airport in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Dec. 13, 2020. [65] HHS Secretary Alex Azar was quoted, and had said (in a press release) that "To the extent possible, we want to ensure that any American patient who needs remdesivir can get it". Jessica Miles, left, of CVS, gives resident Wanda Kilgore a Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Linley Park Rehabilitation and Healthcare in Anderson, S.C., Dec. 29, 2020. His memo to the agencies declared that such power “is reserved to the Secretary.” Health advocates said that the memo raised questions about political meddling and might slow down decision-making. Long-term care patients and frontline workers are among those in the CDCÕs highest priority group for vaccination. 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