Beginning Sunday, shipments totaling 5.9 million doses of the Moderna vaccine may be sent to rural areas, smaller hospitals and local health departments. The first shots are expected to be given Monday.Credit.Andrew Kelly/Reuters
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the Covid-19 vaccine made by Moderna for emergency use, allowing the shipment of millions more doses across the nation and intensifying the debate over who will be next in line to get inoculated.
The move will make Moderna’s vaccine the second to reach the American public, after the one by Pfizer and BioNTech, which was authorized just one week ago.
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Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued
They were sentenced to four months in prison after their original sentence was overturned
Jeanne Mack, Skylar Mack s grandmother, shared that the family was very disappointed in the teen but felt that officials want to hang her for this
Mack, who is enrolled as a pre-med student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, arrived in the Cayman Islands on November 27
She was supposed to undergo a two-week quarantine as mandated by the government, which electronically tracks anyone who arrives
US college student jailed in Cayman Islands for violating COVID-19 rules
Teen sentenced to 4 months in prison
DÁNICA COTO, Associated Press
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Skylar Mack, 18, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, face charges over violations of coronavirus safety laws in the Cayman Islands. (Facebook Profile Pictures)
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will be appealed, their attorney said Thursday.
Skylar Mack, 18, of Georgia, and Vanjae Ramgeet, 24, of the Cayman Islands, have been in prison since Tuesday, when the ruling was issued. They had both pleaded guilty, but their attorney, Jonathon Hughes, said he will argue for a less severe sentence next week.
People handing out hand sanitizer on the streets in São Paulo, Brazil, on Friday.Credit.Victor Moriyama for The New York Times
As the coronavirus continues its surge across the United States and Europe, where vaccinations recently began, total infections around the world have now topped 75 million.
In the United States, more than 128,000 people had been vaccinated as of Friday, according to a New York Times database tracking vaccinations. But that total is just slightly more than half the number of new cases reported across the country the same day.
The United States, the world’s largest coronavirus hot spot with more than 17.6 million people who have been infected over all, on Friday reported its first single-day caseload of more than 250,000 new infections.