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A pop-up Covid-19 vaccination center in Newark on Friday. The United States is vaccinating fewer people on a daily basis than earlier this month, though coronavirus cases remain stubbornly high.Credit.James Estrin/The New York Times
Vaccination rates are falling in the United States, despite the spread of highly contagious virus variants that are fueling the country’s alarmingly high caseload.
More than 50,000 new U.S. cases were reported on Saturday, and case rates are similar to those of the second wave last summer. But the average number of vaccine doses being administered each day, which rose for months and peaked at 3.38 million, has now fallen to 2.86 million, its lowest level since March 31, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Covid 19 coronavirus: Did spotlighting a rare potential vaccine side effect put more at risk?
15 Apr, 2021 10:19 PM
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A health worker loads syringes with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Photo / AP
New York Times
By: Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Jan Hoffman
Some public health officials fear that the pause on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine may fuel vaccine hesitancy and expose more Americans to a bigger danger: the coronavirus. To federal health officials, asking states Tuesday to suspend use of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine until they can investigate six extremely rare but troubling cases of blood clots was an obvious and perhaps unavoidable move.
Highlighting a rare potential vaccine side effect has risks of its own, public health officials warn nytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.