Hello and welcome. The United States is about to begin its most ambitious Vaccination Campaign ever as millions of doses of the Pfizer Biontech vaccine arrive all over the country. The aim is to vaccinate 100 Million People against the coronavirus by the end of march. The vaccine offers up to 95 protection against covid 19 and was deemed safe by the food and drug administration. On saturday, the us recorded a daily toll of 3,309 covid related deaths. The figure is the highest total in a single day anywhere in the world. Lebo diseko has more from washington. Its been a long and painful journey but finally, help is on its way. The first of nearly three million doses of the Pfizer Vaccine leave the firms plant in michigan. Packed on dry ice, theyll go out to distribution centres in all 50 states. The first immunisation could take place as early as monday. Applause. The government says its aiming to vaccinate 20 Million People by the end of the year, 100 million by the end of february. I n
Hello and welcome. The United States is about to begin its most ambitious Vaccination Campaign ever as millions of doses of the Pfizer Biontech vaccine arrive all over the country. The aim is to vaccinate 100 Million People against the coronavirus by the end of march. The vaccine offers up to 95 protection against covid 19 and was deemed safe by the food and drug administration. On saturday, the us recorded a daily toll of 3,309 covid related deaths. The figure is the highest total in a single day anywhere in the world. Lebo diseko has more from washington. Its been a long and painful journey, but finally, help is on its way. The first of nearly three million doses of the Pfizer Vaccine leave the firms plant in michigan. Packed on dry ice, theyll go out to distribution centres in all 50 states. The first immunisation could take place as early as monday. Applause. The government says its aiming to vaccinate 20 Million People by the end of the year, 100 million by the end of february. I
Pressure is increasing for the uk government to revise its relaxation of covid restrictions from 23 27 of december. Talks with the devolved administrations will resume on wednesday to see if a four nation approach can be agreed. Its thought changes to the measures already announced are unlikely, but that there may be strengthened guidance to discourage excessive social mixing. Two of the uks leading medical journals published a joint editorial for the first time, calling for the government to stop any household mixing. They describe the current plan to allow three households to gather at christmas as a rash decision that will cost lives. Here are their editors. The real striking, stark truth of the matter is that our Health System is not going to manage if we allow the current trend to continue on top of the superspreader event that will be this five days of christmas. We are currently on course for around about 19,000 covid inpatients in english hospitals. At the start of the second w
The Center for Disaster Medicine (CDM) at New York Medical College (NYMC) held a different sort of groundbreaking ceremony for its new Simulation and Educational Facility in Valhalla. Instead of having a line of dignitaries plunge gold-plated shovels into a pile of soil to be scooped up, those attending the ceremony took hold of a […]
Experts answer questions about how Biden's end of COVID emergency declarations will impact American families and what that means for our kids, health insurance coverage, and access to COVID tests and vaccines.