Emergency use authorization next week. But there is a caveat, the efficacy of the j js vaccine dropped 57 from the highly contagious variant from south africa. Despite the travel van to stop that variant from coming over here, the new variant is already here. Two cases identified this week in South Carolina with two patients with no ties to each other and no travel history given that, signals community spread. During todays White House Briefing dr. Anthony fauci stressed the importance of vaccinating as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, before those mutant strains get out of control. Whether or not thats going to ultimately take over in the sense of being dominant is unclear by now. The projection that is made with regard to the uk is that probably by the end of march, the beginning of april, it actually will become more dominant in this country. The fundamental principle of getting people vaccinated as quickly and as efficiently as you possible can will always be the be
Around the world. Im Kim Brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. Millions of doses of Covid Vaccine are ready to ship across the United States at this hour awaiting a final thumbs up from the head of the cdc. Its up to dr. Robert redfield to issue the governments final blessing on the vaccine developed by pfizer and biontech. An Advisor Panel made the recommendation earlier saturday. Testing data shows the drug achieves 9d 5 immunity after two shots and showing up just as the pandemic in the u. S. Is turning from bad to worse. One million americans tested positive in just the past four days bringing the total so far to a staggering 16 million infected people. It took almost 100 days to reach the first million back in april. Now, once the cdc gives the green light, a massive nationwide Vaccination Campaign will begin in earnest. Simply transporting millions of doses while keeping them super cold is an epic challenge. We look at the details. Reporter were getting new insight from why the vaccin
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