Pfizer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pfizer says it plans to meet with top U.S. health officials Monday to discuss the drugmaker’s request for federal authorization of a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine as President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser acknowledged that “it is entirely conceivable, maybe likely” that...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The US Food and Drug Administration has informed the local Health Department that the 3,900 dose shipment of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine — which arrived last month and raised local concerns over the quality of doses — are good to be used.
Meanwhile, the Pfizer vaccine...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Getting healthcare workers and first responders vaccinated within a certain timeframe with the first shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine arriving tomorrow, will depend on whether the minus 70 Celsius temperature is maintained throughout the shipping process from the...
Wellington, NEW ZEALAND — Governments all around the world are scrambling to secure access to COVID-19 vaccines for their citizens.
Over the past few weeks, companies Pfizer, Moderna and Janssen Pharmaceutica have released results of significantly effective vaccines in preventing the virus.
But...


![This Department of Health photo posted on its Facebook page shows Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Va’alele Ale (left) preparing to receive his Moderna COVID-19 vaccine last Saturday from a DoH nurse at the Tafuna Community Health Center. Gov. Lemanu Peleti Palepoi Sialega Mauga and cabinet members also received their vaccine that day at Tafuna Health Center. The Moderna vaccine is being used for vaccinations at DoH health centers, while the Pfizer vaccine is being used at LBJ Medical Center. “And the purpose of separating it that way, is for ease of use — both on the medical side and less confusion on the community side,” the DoH Pharmacist, Dr. Francine Amoa told media last week Thursday, during a DoH news conference providing an update on the vaccination and repatriation program. [photo: DoH] Lt. Gov. Talauega Eleasalo Va’alele Ale (left) preparing to receive his Moderna COVID-19 vaccine](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/talauega_vaccinated.jpg?itok=2X3Og0Cx)
![Health Department Senior Epidemiologist, Dr. Aifili John Tufa, during the DoH presentation at Wednesday’s cabinet meeting on the government’s distribution plan for the COVID-19 vaccine. [photo: Leua Aiono Frost] Dr. Aifili John Tufa](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/dr_a_tufa.jpg?itok=db0ZIlwX)
