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WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. added a second COVID-19 vaccine to its arsenal Friday, boosting efforts to beat back an outbreak so dire that the nation is regularly recording more than 3,000 deaths a day.
Much-needed doses are set to arrive Monday after the Food and Drug Administration authorized an emergency rollout of the vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health.
The move marks the world’s first authorization for Moderna’s shots. The vaccine is very similar to one from Pfizer Inc. and Germany’s BioNTech that’s now being dispensed to millions of health care workers and nursing home residents as the biggest vaccination drive in U.S. history starts to ramp up.
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California hospitals are battling to find beds to house patients amid fears that the exploding coronavirus infection rate will exhaust resources and health care workers.
As of Saturday, nearly 17,400 people were hospitalized with confirmed or suspected COVID-19 infections more than double the previous peak reached in July and a state model that uses current data to forecast future trends shows the number could reach an unfathomable 75,000 by mid-January.
More than 3,600 confirmed or suspected COVID-19 patients were in intensive care units.
Some areas of California are just right at that cusp of getting overrun, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, said during an event organized by the California State University system.
COVID Christmas getaway: One million fly on Friday as holiday travel season kicks off amid pandemic - while overrun California hospitals prepare to ration care and nation sees another 202K cases and 2,814 deaths
TSA says more than one million people traveled by air in US on Friday as the Christmas travel season begins
Friday saw another 249,709 infected and 2,814 deaths, with 113,929 currently hospitalized with COVID-19
California hospitals are considering rationing care as hospital ICUs become overrun with patients
Now 98.3% of California s population is under harshest tier of lockdown, with stay-at-home orders in place
On Saturday night, Apple announced that it is temporarily closing all 53 of its stores in California
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