Vanessa Romo

Vanessa Romo appears in the following:

FDA Warns Health Officials Not To Mess With COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Schedule

Monday, January 04, 2021

Agency officials said reducing the number of doses creates a potential for harm in patients because "they may assume that they are fully protected when they are not" and may "take unnecessary risks."

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Pharmacist Who Spoiled More Than 500 Vaccine Doses Said He Thought They Were 'Unsafe'

Monday, January 04, 2021

"He'd formed this belief they were unsafe," prosecutors said Monday. They also disclosed that colleagues of the now-fired pharmacist, Steven Brandenburg, reported he had twice taken a gun to work.

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Florida Becomes 3rd U.S. State To Identify New Coronavirus Variant

Thursday, December 31, 2020

"The individual is a male in his 20s with no history of travel. The Department is working with the CDC on this investigation," Florida Department of Health officials announced Thursday.

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Pharmacist Arrested, Accused Of Destroying More Than 500 Moderna Vaccine Doses

Thursday, December 31, 2020

The now-fired hospital employee later said he knew "that people who received the vaccinations would think they had been vaccinated against the virus when in fact they were not," investigators said.

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Some 500 Coronavirus Vaccine Doses Intentionally Destroyed, Hospital Says

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Officials at the Wisconsin medical center first suspected a now-former employee inadvertently left the Moderna drugs out of cold storage. But an investigation concludes they were deliberately removed.

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California Identifies A Case Of Coronavirus Variant First Seen In U.K.

Wednesday, December 30, 2020

Gov. Gavin Newsom made the announcement during an online conversation about the pandemic with Dr. Anthony Fauci, but he offered little additional information about the circumstances of the diagnosis.

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Massachusetts Senate Overrides Veto, Passes Law Expanding Abortion Access

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

"Pregnant people who once faced near-insurmountable barriers accessing abortion care can now seize the right to control their own bodies," Senate President Emerita Harriette Chandler said Tuesday.

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Justice Department Declines To Prosecute Cleveland Officers In Death Of Tamir Rice

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

The department announced that it found insufficient evidence to "support federal criminal charges" against Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback.

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Columbus, Ohio, Officer Who Shot And Killed Andre Hill Is Fired

Monday, December 28, 2020

"This is what accountability looks like," Police Chief Tom Quinlan said Monday. "Mr. [Adam] Coy will now have to answer to the state investigators for the death of Andre Hill."

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Trump Pardons Roger Stone, Paul Manafort And Charles Kushner

Wednesday, December 23, 2020

The announcement comes as part of a wave of pardons and commutations in the final weeks of Trump's presidency.

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Trump Grants Slew Of Pardons, Including To George Papadopoulos And Duncan Hunter

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

In all, President Trump granted full pardons to 15 individuals and commuted part or all of the sentences of an additional five.

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Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Coordinator, To Retire After Biden Transition

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

"I will be helpful in any role that people think I can be helpful in, and then I will retire," Birx, who has spend more than three decades in public health service, told Newsy on Tuesday.

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More Than 70 West Point Cadets Accused Of Cheating In Academic Scandal

Monday, December 21, 2020

Instructors at the Army's premier training ground for officers revealed the academic scandal on Monday, saying it's the worst they've seen since 1976. Some called it a national security issue.

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U.S. State Department Closing Two Consulates In Russia

Friday, December 18, 2020

The announcement follows the revelation of a massive cyberattack against numerous government agencies as well as a number of private companies. Russian intelligence is widely believed responsible.

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Maryland, Virginia To Send Extra COVID-19 Vaccine To D.C., Tripling Its Allotment

Friday, December 18, 2020

D.C.'s mayor urged the federal government to send more medicine to no avail. Now the states are sharing their supply to vaccinate health care workers who work in the capital but live elsewhere.

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Some Vials Of COVID-19 Vaccine Contain Extra Doses, Expanding Supply, FDA Says

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

The Food and Drug Administration says is advising health workers to use "every full dose obtainable" to help speed up the nationwide immunization campaign.

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Twitter To Remove Or Place Warning Labels On COVID Vaccine Conspiracy Tweets

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

The social media giant says it will not allow tweets containing "unsubstantiated rumors, disputed claims" or promotion of "out of context information" about the vaccine.

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Minnesota Commutes Life Sentence Of Man Convicted As Teen Of Shooting 11-Year-Old

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Myon Burrell's release at age 34 comes after reports uncovered major flaws in the police investigation that led to his life sentence at 17.

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Health Workers 'Feeling Good As Hell' As Hospitals Begin COVID Vaccine Injections

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

As the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine made their way across the country on Monday, hospital employees celebrated the long-awaited medicine.

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Actress, Dancer, Choreographer Ann Reinking Dies At 71

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

A mainstay in Broadway musicals, her standout turn as Roxie Hart in Chicago in 1977 earned her widespread praise. She reprised the role in 1996 and won a Tony.

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