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Dr. Atul Gawande, a coronavirus advisor to President-elect Joe Biden, told CNBC on Wednesday he participated in Moderna‘s Covid-19 vaccine trial. “My mother, at 84, said, ‘I want to give back,’ so she signed up for the trial. I said if my mom can do that, then I’ll sign up for …

A health advisor to President-elect Joe Biden on Monday urged Americans to have confidence in Covid-19 vaccines, telling CNBC the regulatory review for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine adhered to scientific protocols. “We know that this process that has been used by the U.S. to evaluate and to approve the vaccine for …

The Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory panel signed off on Pfizer’s Covid vaccine with a 17 to 4 vote, with one abstention on Thursday night. Dr. Archana Chatterjee, dean of the Chicago Medical School, was one of the four “no” votes. Chatterjee explained her decision during a Friday evening …

A nurse administers a flu vaccination shot to a woman at a free clinic held at a local library on October 14, 2020 in Lakewood, California. Mario Tama | Getty Images Children and young teens could get a Covid-19 vaccine in the second half of next year, an advisor for …

President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid advisory board member Dr. Celine Gounder told CNBC that she is “relieved” upon hearing news that President Donald Trump’s special advisor on the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Scott Atlas, formally resigned from his post. “I am relieved that in the future that people who are qualified, people …

Operation Warp Speed’s Chief Science Advisor Moncef Slaoui told CNBC that Americans can expect to get back to ‘normal’ by summer 2021, as families across the United States spend Thanksgiving apart this year in order to keep their loved ones safe.  “We hope that we would have vaccinated 70% to …

More people will be infected with Covid-19 and could die the longer the Trump administration delays the transition process and avoids coordinating the vaccine’s distribution, a coronavirus advisor to President-elect Joe Biden said on Thursday. Trump has refused to concede the election for nearly two weeks after it was called …

Pedestrians wear protective masks while walking along El Paso Street in downtown El Paso, Texas, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A national lockdown of businesses and schools is a “measure of last resort,” even as cases continue to surge to record-highs across the …

A member of President-elect Joe Biden‘s coronavirus task force on Friday urged Americans to avoid traveling over Thanksgiving, saying it would only make the pandemic in the United States worse. “Right now we have a fire blazing and to me traveling and spending time with people over the holidays is …

Dr. Michael Osterholm, Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, announced advances for COVID-19 testing in Minnesota, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 in St. Paul, MN. Glen Stubbe | Star Tribune | Getty …

The coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. will face its darkest period so far over the next three to four months as cases continue to surge above 100,000 per day, a newly appointed coronavirus advisor to President-elect Joe Biden said on Monday. “What America has to understand is that we are about …