The US hit a new record for hospitalizations with 110,549 patients being treated for COVID-19 yesterday
The number of hospitalizations has surpassed the 100,000 mark every day for the last two weeks with the seven-day rolling average of patients now at 107,856
There were 1,311 new deaths and more than 193,000 new cases reported on the same day that Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine started rolling out across the country
The death toll surpassed the grim 300,000 milestone yesterday just hours after the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered in the country
The Midwestern states of North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa currently have the highest number of deaths per 100,000 people based on a seven-day average
The U.S. has finally approved its first coronavirus vaccine and began dosing some of the most at-risk people, including health care workers, on Monday.
But the supply of Pfizer s vaccine is scarce. The firm shipped out just 2.9 million doses, beginning over the weekend.
The rollout of coronavirus vaccines will have many stages and is the most massive vaccination campaign ever undertaken in the U.S.
DailyMail.com breaks down what will happen next.
Health care workers are among the first to get vaccinated against COVID-19 in the US - but younger, healthy people who don t work on the front lines could be waiting months