Arizona Sets Death Record; N.Y. Lowers Vaccine Age: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/01/2021 Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) The Trump administration is urging states to expand access to vaccines, including making them available to anyone over 65. New York state lowered its vaccine age to 65 from 75 following the change in guidance.
New York City will use Citi Field, home of the Mets baseball team, as a mass-vaccination site starting the week of Jan. 25, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
The European Union reached its eighth supply deal for doses, and an official said deliveries of shots will accelerate starting in April. The number of patients in the U.K. needing ventilators rose to the highest since the pandemic began. Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Germany’s hard lockdown could last into late March.
WHO Team Set for China Trip; N.J. Honor System: Virus Update
Bloomberg 1/11/2021
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Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE raised their Covid-19 vaccine production target for this year to 2 billion shots. The previous production target was 1.3 billion doses. A World Health Organization team of scientists is beginning a long-delayed trip to China to study the origins of the virus.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio reaffirmed his goal of doling out 1 million doses by the end of January. Los Angeles, the epicenter of the latest U.S. wave, will turn Dodger Stadium into a mass vaccination center to inoculate as many as 12,000 people a day.