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
Farrakhan, 87, was speaking at the National Afrikan/Black Leadership Summit
He said Saturday: You trust him? After all he has done to destroy us? How could you allow him to stick a needle into you, saying he s helping you?
A poll last week showed less than 25% black Americans plan to get the shot
Black Americans are particularly wary of the vaccination, despite the fact that they ve suffered a disproportionate share of the US s coronavirus deaths
The vaccine roll out began across the United States Monday, with intensive care nurse Sandra Lindsay in New York among the first to receive the Pfizer shot