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Howard G. Smith, M.D. is a former radio medical editor and talk show host in the Boston Metro area. His "Medical Minute" of health and wellness news and commentary was a regular weekday feature on WBZ-AM, WRKO-AM, and WMRE-AM. His popular two-way talk show, Dr. Howard Smith OnCall, was regularly heard Sunday morning and middays on WBZ.

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Trained at Harvard Medical School and a long-time faculty member at Boston Children’s Hospital, he practiced Pediatric Otolaryngology for 40 years in Boston, Southern California, and in central Connecticut.  He is now based in New York City.

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Mar 31, 2020

Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/8eMXEqLnWOc

 

Our lethargic US government is finally moving on coronavirus vaccines to the tune of $1 billion.  BARDA, the Biomedical Advances Research and Development Authority, part of the Health and Human Services agency, has signed contracts to develop and manufacture a vaccine.

 

 Moderna, a biotech company that has a vaccine candidate, has begun testing it.  BARDA is also talking about alternative vaccines with Pfizer, Sanofi, and Johnson and Johnson’s own labs.

 

 J&J will use the government grant to ramp up manufacturing capacity to produce at least 1 billion doses of the vaccine. Even so,  safe and effective vaccine will not be available until late 2021, but it will come.

 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-johnson-johnson/jj-u-s-government-plan-1-billion-doses-of-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN21H1OY?il=0

 

https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/j-j-barda-commit-1b-to-covid-19-vaccine-r-d

 

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