US COVID-19 death toll tops 400,000
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Updated: 1:55 PM CST Jan 19, 2021
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Updated: 1:55 PM CST Jan 19, 2021
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about 60% of the more than 24 million confirmed Cove in 19 cases in the US were reported since Election Day 2020. I'm not convinced at all that we're past the worst of it, Johns Hopkins University reports. New Cove in 19 cases in the US in the past week dropped 11% since the previous week's peak. But health officials aren't feeling optimistic yet. If only we had a national plan the last 10 months. What a big difference that would have made one main area of concern. Bottlenecks. With the vaccine roll out, we have distributed to the states about 31 million doses of vaccine. We've only given 12 million doses. Another issue, a cove in 19 variant first identified in the United Kingdom is spreading in the U. S. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At least 122 cases of this more contagious strain of the virus were confirmed in 20 states. It will, in fact, many, many more people and unfortunately probably will end up killing more people. Uh, then the current mainstream that we've been dealing with for much of 2020 President elect Joe Biden says his administration's goal is to deliver 100 million doses of vaccine in his 1st 100 days in office. It's been very clear from the Biden team. They don't wanna do a federal takeover. What they wanna do is they want to partner with states and they want to coordinate with states. I'm John Lawrence reporting.