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ZIP Advertisement January has been the deadliest month for COVID-19 with nearly 80,000 lives lost so far in the US Share Updated: 11:02 AM CST Jan 27, 2021 Madeline Holcombe, CNN January has been the deadliest month for COVID-19 with nearly 80,000 lives lost so far in the US Share Updated: 11:02 AM CST Jan 27, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript WATCHING THIS CLOSELY. RIGHT. THEY ARE. THEY ARE CHECKING THESE TESTS AND TRACKING THEM FOR NEW COVID VARIANTS HERE AND ACROSS THE STATE. TONIGHT, DOCTORS WARN THEY’VE MUTATED IN A WAY TO POTENTIALLY REINFECT PEOPLE WHO HAVE ALREADY RECOVERED FROM COVID-19. THE NEW COVID-19 STRAINS ARE EITHER ALREADY HERE OR ON WISCONSIN’S DOORSTEP. THE KEY ISSUE WITH THE VARIANTS IS THEY ARE FAR MORE INFECTIOUS AND WILL SPREAD FAR MORE QUICKLY. STATE HEALTH OFFICIALS CONFIRMED A CASE OF THE U.K. VARIANT EARLIER THIS MONTH. AND MONDAY, THE FIRST U.S. CASE OF THE B ....
NEW YORK January has already become the worst month for US COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic. As of Tuesday, there have been more than 79,000 coronavirus fatalities, topping the previous record set in December by more than a thousand, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. The grim milestone underpins the growing demand from state officials for more vaccines so that Americans can be inoculated more quickly. On Tuesday, President Joe Biden s COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients told governors that allocations would increase by around 16% starting next week, according to a source with knowledge of the call. Biden has pushed for 100 million vaccination shots in the first 100 days of his presidency, but with a long road ahead for vaccinations, he also called for 100 days of mask-wearing. ....
endIndex: (CNN) - Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said Tuesday it’s important to give the second dose of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine on time, but added that he didn’t think “giving it a week later or two is a very big issue.” “You need to make sure you give the second doses as the studies recommend the vaccine works which is in three weeks,” Bourla said during the Bloomberg The Year Ahead event. “In our study we actually had from 19 to 42. Within this framework, I’m fine. Beyond that, it’s serious.” While the proposed window between doses was 21 days in Pfizer’s vaccine efficacy trial, it still included participants who received their second doses within a “predefined window” of 19 to 42 days, according to FDA materials. ....