Valisure, an online pharmacy company, told the FDA that high levels of dimethylformamide were found in valsartan, a drug produced by Swiss drugmaker Novartis and other pharmaceutical companies.
Large venues such as Barclays Center and Madison Square Garden will likely be closed for months as officials try to contain the fast-spreading coronavirus.
Unlike today, there was no CDC, but there was an epidemiologist much like Dr. Anthony Fauci who withstood criticism for publicly pressing for safety protocols.
There are a handful of instances where people will still need to wear masks — in
a health-care setting, at a business that mandates them or on public
transportation.
“This is still a rare event,” Dr. Tom Shimabukuro said at the meeting. For both vaccines combined, there were 12.6 heart inflammation cases per million doses.
“People cannot feel safe just because they had the two doses. They still need to protect themselves,” WHO official Dr. Mariangela Simao told reporters.