LOS ANGELES - It may sound simple: Get the COVID-19 vaccine and now you’re protected from getting sick. But can you still get infected and transmit the coronavirus, which has claimed more than 300,000 American lives, even after being vaccinated?Last week, the first vaccine by Pfizer and BioNTech was given emergency use authorization by the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration and shipments to the nation’s hospitals quickly began. The first 3 million shots were strictly rationed to front-line health workers and elder-care patients.A key advisory committee to the FDA Thursday voted to recommend the approval of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, which means it could become the second shot to be approved by the agency and to be.