Color. One of the things we can do is target the highest Risk Communities hit by this pandemic, so going into communities and meeting people where they are, and not expecting every community to go out and seek and search where they can find the vaccine. Meeting with states to discuss their plans for ensuring equitable Vaccine Distribution and ask for assistance in achieving that goal. As you all know, and weave talked about it in here, governments are seeking the distribution to ensure that vaccinations are getting to all parts of the country. We are thinking instinctively and creatively how to do that, and were also working with the cdc to improve Vaccination Data reporting by ethnicity. Theres no question that its not at the level we need it to be at. Do you think thats going to happen, or is there a message to people giving out the vaccines . I just wonder how that actually gets changed on the ground level . I dont know if its a president ial memoranda or policy change. How often di
These are overthecounter selfperformed test kits that can detect covid with roughly 95 accuracy within 15 minutes. It can be used, if you feel symptoms of covid19, and also for screening for people without symptoms. There is more positive news in the u. S. Pandemic. The weekly average for new cases, theyre actually down. The weekly averaging are down 12 and hospitalizations are down 11 , but still the nation reported more than 110,000 new cases, and nearly 1,800 deaths on sunday. January is now in the record books. The most deaths reported in any month of the pandemic. 95,000 People Dieing from covid just last month. Lets turn now to dr. Paul spearman a professor and director of the Infectious Disease division at Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center and also a member of the fdas vaccine advisory board, but recused himself from Coronavirus Approvals for now because hes working as an investigator in these cornevid vaccine trials. Thank you very much for coming on. Were very curio