After months of grueling lockdowns from a deadly global pandemic, there’s finally a small light at the end of the tunnel. The COVID vaccine is on the way!
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On Thursday, just a day after the US experienced its most COVID deaths in a single day, the US Food and Drug Administration advisory panel of independent scientists and medical experts gave the green light for the 95% effective Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to receive emergency distribution throughout the United States.
The panel voted 17 to 4, with one member abstaining, in favor of the emergency authorization for Americans 16 and older. The full FDA is scheduled to vote and provide full authorization on Sunday, however, that is more of a formality.
Health care and front-line workers, as well as nursing home residents, will receive the first batch of the 6.4 million doses which could begin to ship out as early as Monday. If all goes well, every American who wants the double-dose vaccine could have it by as early as late Spring.
As President-elect Joe Biden once said, the vaccine will not cure COVID. It’s the vaccination (meaning the actual shots) that will put an end to the deadly pandemic. However, some Americans are skittish about taking it — up from 38% in October to 53% today.
Are you one of them? Will you or won’t you take the vaccine? Tell us in the comments below.
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Well…as I expressed on a previously related post – given the dark history of how WE (Blacks) have been used as guinea pigs (Unbeknown to Us until well after the fact) for medical research, sanctioned by the American government……..
And given that it usually takes on average about 10 yrs to develop and get FDA approval for use of a potential vaccine but somehow COVID vaccines have been developed literally in a matter of months AND already approved..!?!
No. I won’t be taking the vaccine. No time soon anyway. I’ll sit back and watch how things play out over the next year before I’ll even consider it.