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.
On Eve of Vaccine Campaign, Some States Still Uncertain of Supply
Bloomberg 12/11/2020 John Tozzi and Angelica LaVito
(Bloomberg) Many U.S. states don t have a clear picture yet of how many doses of the Covid-19 vaccine they’ll get, even with the Pfizer Inc. shots on the cusp of being authorized for emergency use by regulators.
Popular Searches
Once that happens, it’s expected to trigger a complicated operation to quickly deliver millions of doses to sites in all U.S. states and territories as far away as Guam. Yet a number of state and local governments haven t provided a clear accounting of how many shots they’ll receive, and federal officials have been equally close-mouthed to the public about the breakdown. While several states have supplied the numbers, others say the estimates they’ve received are too fluid to share.