Vaccine Pledges Unmet; CDC Sounds Alarm on Variant: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/15/2021 Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) The Covid-19 variant that emerged in the U.K. and sparked concerns of faster spread could become dominant in the U.S. as soon as March, U.S. public-health researchers said in a report.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city will run out of vaccines by next week due to supply shortages. New York state will receive 50,000 fewer doses next week than it did the week before, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. Other states, including New Jersey, Oregon and Colorado, said they are not receiving enough vaccine.
Global Deaths Near 2 Million; Germany Record Surge: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/15/2021 Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) The world’s about to hit a frightening Covid-19 benchmark, with 2 million people dead and few expectations for infections to start dropping any time soon. The U.S. is leading all countries in deaths, with Brazil, India, Mexico and the U.K. next in line.
President-elect Joe Biden has called U.S. vaccine efforts a “dismal failure” and vowed to accelerate them. In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel wants to tighten the lockdown as the country reported a record number of daily virus deaths.
China’s northeastern Covid clusters are growing as an outbreak expands to at least eight other provinces. Peter Daszak, the only American in a 15-person World Health Organization scientific team looking into the origins of the virus, has arrived in China, according to a spokesman for the EcoHealth Alliance, the research organization he runs.
WHO Team Set for China Trip; N.J. Honor System: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/11/2021
(Bloomberg)
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE raised their Covid-19 vaccine production target for this year to 2 billion shots. The previous production target was 1.3 billion doses. A World Health Organization team of scientists is beginning a long-delayed trip to China to study the origins of the virus.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio reaffirmed his goal of doling out 1 million doses by the end of January. Los Angeles, the epicenter of the latest U.S. wave, will turn Dodger Stadium into a mass vaccination center to inoculate as many as 12,000 people a day.
WHO Team Set for China Trip; N.J. Honor System: Virus Update Bloomberg 1/11/2021
(Bloomberg)
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE raised their Covid-19 vaccine production target for this year to 2 billion shots. The previous production target was 1.3 billion doses. A World Health Organization team of scientists is beginning a long-delayed trip to China to study the origins of the virus.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio reaffirmed his goal of doling out 1 million doses by the end of January. Los Angeles, the epicenter of the latest U.S. wave, will turn Dodger Stadium into a mass vaccination center to inoculate as many as 12,000 people a day.
Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE raised their Covid-19 vaccine production target for this year to 2 billion shots. The previous production target was 1.3 billion doses. A World Health Organization team of scientists is beginning a long-delayed trip to China to study the origins of the virus.