jersey tonight, and stephanie, let s look to tomorrow. the fda panel advisers set to meet tomorrow morning. how soon could we get a decision on the moderna vaccine? reporter: well, david, that panel of advisers will make a recommendation and dr. fauci says tomorrow, the fda will hopefully make a decision whether to give emergency authorization to moderna s vaccine. the company is expected to deliver 20 million doses to the government by the end of the month, so we could have two covid vaccines available by christmas. david? all right, stephanie, thank you. and news on these vaccines comes as america s hospitals are under siege tonight. another new record this evening, the tenth straight day of record hospitalizations. in fact, more than 112,000 patients are in the hospital right now, battling this virus. hospitals turning parking lots, hallways and tonight, even the hospital lobby into a covid ward. here s our chief national correspondent matt gutman. reporter: tonight, with am
Note: The week-over-week growth in positive cases has slowed. Hopefully that continues.
I m looking forward to not posting this data in a few months. Please stay healthy!
The US is now averaging well over 1 million tests per day. Based on the experience of other countries, for adequate test-and-trace (and isolation) to reduce infections, the percent positive needs to be under 5% (probably close to 1%), so the US has far too many daily cases - and percent positive - to do effective test-and-trace.
There were 1,480,147 test results reported over the last 24 hours.
There were 189,783 positive tests.
Almost 36,000 US deaths have been reported so far in December. See the graph on US Daily Deaths here.
Note: The week-over-week growth in positive cases has slowed. Hopefully that continues.
I m looking forward to not posting this data in a few months. Please stay healthy!
The US is now averaging well over 1 million tests per day. Based on the experience of other countries, for adequate test-and-trace (and isolation) to reduce infections, the percent positive needs to be under 5% (probably close to 1%), so the US has far too many daily cases - and percent positive - to do effective test-and-trace.
There were 1,883,575 test results reported over the last 24 hours.
There were 193,384 positive tests.
Almost 33,000 US deaths have been reported so far in December. See the graph on US Daily Deaths here.
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I m looking forward to not posting this data in a few months. Please stay healthy!
The US is now averaging well over 1 million tests per day. Based on the experience of other countries, for adequate test-and-trace (and isolation) to reduce infections, the percent positive needs to be under 5% (probably close to 1%), so the US has far too many daily cases - and percent positive - to do effective test-and-trace.
There were 1,532,713 test results reported over the last 24 hours.
There were 214,118 positive tests.
Over 24,000 US deaths have been reported so far in December. See the graph on US Daily Deaths here.
Note: The week-over-week growth in positive cases has slowed. Hopefully that continues.
I m looking forward to not posting this data in a few months. Please stay healthy!
The US is now averaging well over 1 million tests per day. Based on the experience of other countries, for adequate test-and-trace (and isolation) to reduce infections, the percent positive needs to be under 5% (probably close to 1%), so the US has far too many daily cases - and percent positive - to do effective test-and-trace.
There were 1,397,965 test results reported over the last 24 hours.
There were 186,884 positive tests.
Over 31,000 US deaths have been reported so far in December. See the graph on US Daily Deaths here.