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States, Tribes, and territories will receive a 5 percent supply increase this week, and Americans will soon have easier access to vaccinations through local pharmacies
As the U.S. surpasses 26 million COVID-19 infections, President Biden took additional steps today to implement his comprehensive National Strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. These steps include increasing the vaccine supply to states, Tribes, and territories and increasing funding to jurisdictions to help turn vaccines into vaccinations. And, the President announced that starting next week, the first phase of the federal pharmacy program will launch and select pharmacies nationwide will start offering vaccinations for their communities.
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These distributors not only include large chain stores, but also distributors for small community pharmacies and clinics that provide services in smaller communities across the nation.
According to a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences that was commissioned by the CDC and NIH, we are currently within what they have called Phase 1a or the
Credit: Natl Academy of Sciences
Info from a National Academy of Sciences report commissioned by the CDC and NIH, show the phased distribution of vaccine across the nation.
Following this early stage comes
Phase 1b. During that phase,
vaccinations will be made available for people of all ages with comorbidities and underlying conditions that put them at significantly higher risk, along with older adults living in congregated or overcrowded settings.
California orders 5,000 body bags while Colorado and New Mexico bring in refrigerated trucks on second day of vaccine rollout - as US hospitalizations reach a record 112,816 and new daily fatalities surge to more than 3k
Nationwide, there were 3,019 new deaths reported on Tuesday. It is only the third time daily deaths have exceeded 3,000 fatalities throughout the pandemic and all three have occurred in the last week
There were 198,357 new confirmed cases on Tuesday and nearly 113,000 people nationwide currently hospitalized with the virus - the highest number at any point during the pandemic
California Governor Gavin Newsom warned of the possibility of thousands of deaths in the coming weeks as the state faces its most intense coronavirus surge yet