US States Start Seeing Days of Zero COVID-19 Deaths
U.S. states are starting to record days of zero deaths among people with COVID-19, another marker that the pandemic is easing.
Idaho, Minnesota, and Wisconsin saw several zero-death days in recent weeks, and the nation’s second most populous state, Texas, saw a zero-death day for the first time since March 2020.
Fifteen states on Monday reported zero COVID-19 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University, though many later added several deaths. Still, fatalities attributed to COVID-19 were just a handful in most of the states, including Alabama, Arizona, and Delaware.
Martin Kulldorff, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, told The Epoch Times: “That’s good news. Not surprising. There are two reasons for that. One is that we have a lot of immunity in the population, mostly from natural disease but also from the vaccines. We also know that it’s a seasonal disease. So the decline in March and April was mostly
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US officials may need 2 weeks or more to determine if Johnson & Johnson s vaccine causes rare blood clots
US officials may need 2 weeks or more to determine if Johnson & Johnson s vaccine causes rare blood clots
Aria BendixApr 18, 2021, 00:03 IST
A pharmacist at the Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, fills a syringe with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.Joseph Prezioso/Getty Images
US agencies may need two weeks or more to know if Johnson & Johnson s shot causes rare
blood clots.
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But medical experts worry that pausing the shot for much longer could increase vaccine hesitancy.
US federal agencies may need two weeks or more to know whether Johnson & Johnson s
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A pharmacist at the Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut, fills a syringe with the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
Joseph Prezioso/Getty Images
US agencies may need two weeks or more to know if Johnson & Johnson s shot causes rare blood clots.
The CDC is shuffling to collect more data, two senior White House health officials
But medical experts worry that pausing the shot for much longer could increase vaccine hesitancy.
The SA Health Products Regulatory Authority has, however, recommended that the pause on the J&J Sisonke study be lifted.