by Alisa Nelson | Dec 17, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
Missouri is getting fewer doses of COVID-19 vaccine next week than expected. The second shipment was supposed to include enough doses to vaccinate about 64,000 health care workers. During a Capitol briefing in Jefferson City, state Health and Senior Services...
by admin | Dec 17, 2020 | Business, Education, Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
Missouri’s governor announced on Wednesday in Jefferson City that about 1,000 frontline health care workers have already received COVID-19 vaccines. During a Statehouse press conference, Governor Mike Parson told Capitol reporters that Missouri’s 21...
by Alisa Nelson | Dec 3, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
If the Food and Drug Administration approves Pfizer’s request for emergency use of the company’s COVID-19 drug, Missouri could get the first shipment of the vaccine later this month. The first batch is expected to include enough doses to vaccinate 51,000 people,...
by Alisa Nelson | Nov 24, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Politics / Govt
Pfizer’s manufacturing plant in the St. Louis suburb of Chesterfield is one of three company locations in America set to make a COVID-19 vaccine. The drug maker has asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve emergency use of its immunization it says has been...
by Ashley Byrd | Nov 13, 2020 | Health / Medicine, News, Science / Technology
Pfizer labs in Chesterfield, Missouri are ready to mass-produce a new COVID-19 vaccine as soon as the FDA approves its success rate and safety data. Pfizer and BioNtech have teamed up to develop a successful mRNA-based vaccine and have reached a 90 percent success...
