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Drop in COVID Cases Seen in Nursing Homes as U.S. Vaccine Effort Makes Headway

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The variant is perhaps the most worrisome to public health experts, because it seems to have some ability to evade COVID-19 antibody treatments or vaccines. 1.351 variant contains a key mutation that appears to allow the virus to elude the full power of antibody treatments and vaccines.

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FDA Approves Emergency Use of Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine

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. “On behalf of the long-term [care] industry, we welcome the decision by the FDA to approve emergency use authorization to expedite the distribution of a COVID vaccine,” said Mark Parkinson, president and CEO of the American Health Care Association and National Center for Assisted Living.

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