The Biden administration is purchasing an additional 200 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, a move that could provide enough doses for nearly every American to get fully inoculated by the end of the summer, a senior administration official said Tuesday.

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Orlando-based Darden, which has more than 1,815 restaurants, will offer hourly employees two hours of pay for each dose of the vaccine they receive, for up to four hours of compensation, CEO Gene Lee wrote in a Tuesday letter to employees.

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"The brutal truth is it's going to take months before we can get the majority of Americans vaccinated. Months. In the next few months, masks, not vaccines, are the best defense against COVID-19," President Joe Biden said Tuesday

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A top executive at Good Samaritan Hospital in San Jose has been disciplined after the hospital came under fire for giving coveted coronavirus vaccines to Los Gatos teachers. Hospital spokeswoman Sarah Sherwood confirmed Tuesday that “disciplinary action has been taken” against Chief Operating Officer Gary Purushotham and a further review is underway.  Attempts to reach Purushotham Tuesday afternoon were not successful.The potential shakeup in th…

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A Wisconsin pharmacist charged with spoiling hundreds of doses of COVID-19 vaccine has agreed to plead guilty in the case, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday.



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Japan’s vaccination roll-out faces logistical hurdles that could further delay the slow-moving campaign, experts and officials say, complicating plans to deliver widescale coronavirus inoculations in time for the Olympics.

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[Reuters] --- US Moderna announced on the 26th that it will be able to supply the US government with about 100 million doses of the new coronavirus vaccine by the end of the first quarter. By the end of the second quarter, a total of 200 million supplies will be available. Moderna signs a contract to supply the US government with 200 million doses of vaccine. So far, it has supplied 30.4 million doses. According to the Centers

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