Amid High Stakes, China Is Fast-Tracking COVID-19 Vaccine Efforts Experts say the Communist Party sees more at stake than public health. One of the biggest concerns is the economy. China is also looking to defuse criticism over its early handling of the outbreak.
New Coronavirus Vaccine Candidate Shows Promise In Early, Limited Trial Cambridge, Mass.-based Moderna, Inc., is reporting preliminary data suggesting its COVID-19 vaccine is safe, and appears to be triggering an immune response in test subjects.
Pfizer Begins Coronavirus Vaccine Trial In U.S. The vaccine, developed in a partnership between the pharmaceutical giant and a German biotech company, began trials on Monday with 360 volunteer subjects.
KUOW Newsroom The race for the coronavirus vaccine in Seattle, and the people behind it The race for the coronavirus vaccine in Seattle, and the people behind it. We feature three people on the frontlines of developing a coronavirus vaccine.
Timetable For A Vaccine Against The New Coronavirus? Maybe This Fall Recent advances in biotech make scientists optimistic that they might have a vaccine that has passed basic tests of human safety and efficacy ready to go to clinics as soon as this fall.
Week In Review City growth and city snow this week Bill Radke review the week's news with Eli Sanders, associate editor at The Stanger, Ashley Archibald, reporter for Real Change News, and Karen Weise, tech correspondent for the New York Times.
KUOW Newsroom Seattle Schools to turn away nearly 1,000 students missing vaccine records Seattle Public Schools plans to turn away students who have not met vaccination requirements today.
KUOW Newsroom Is your kid missing vaccines? Seattle Schools is offering one more free clinic Michael Anthony drove his 13-year-old daughter, Aunna, all the way from Tacoma to south Seattle to get a chicken pox shot.
Do You Really Need A Flu Shot? Here's How To Decide The internet abounds with myths about the relative risks of flu and flu shots, maybe partly because it's an annual shot and nobody likes needles. Here's the latest on what you might need — and why.
KUOW Newsroom First child flu death in King County — since 2009 A King County child died of complications from influenza in a Pierce County Hospital on Sunday, according to King County-Seattle Public Health.
