The president-elect has announced ambitious initiatives to combat Covid-19 and its economic toll, seeking to overcome the struggles and failures of the Trump administration, which has presided over a slow start to the biggest vaccination drive in US history.
The challenge is steep: Ron Klain, the incoming White House chief of staff, told CNN on Sunday, Bidenâs team projected another 100,000 deaths from Covid-19 in the first five weeks of the administration.
According to Johns Hopkins University, by Sunday morning 23,760,523 cases and 395,855 deaths had been recorded in the US.
âItâs going to take a while to turn this around,â Klain said.
People over 75, essential workers next in line for vaccine in US
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The trucks left the Olive Branch, Mississippi, factory, near Memphis, Tennessee, with the vaccine developed by Moderna Inc. and the National Institutes of Health.
The much-needed shots are expected to be given starting Monday, just three days after the Food and Drug Administration authorized their emergency rollout.
In Louisville, Kentucky, UPS driver Todd Elble said his vaccine shipment was the most important load that I ve hauled in a 37-year career.
His parents contracted COVID-19 in November, and his 78-year-old father died.
He said the family speculates that his father got infected while traveling on a hunting trip with four other relatives to Wyoming, and some are still sick.
People Over 75, Essential Workers Next In Line For Covid Vaccine In US: Experts
The vaccination program began in the last week and so far has given initial shots to about 556,000 Americans AP/PTI Associated Press (AP) 2020-12-21T08:11:22+05:30 People Over 75, Essential Workers Next In Line For Covid Vaccine In US: Experts outlookindia.com 2020-12-21T10:21:19+05:30
An expert committee put people 75 and older and essential workers like firefighters, teachers and grocery store workers next in line for COVID-19 shots as a second vaccine began rolling out Sunday to hospitals, a desperately needed boost as the nation works to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control.
Washington: The army general running the U.S. vaccine-distribution effort said that a lag between when shots are produced and when they are cleared for shipment led to widespread confusion over how many doses states will receive next week.
Gen. Gustave Perna, chief operations officer for Operation Warp Speed, the U.S. vaccine program, said he took “personal responsibility” for a miscommunication that led some states to complain that they were having their allocations reduced without explanation.
Perna said that after doses of Pfizer Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine are manufactured U.S. authorities must check their quality and deem them ready for release. In the first week of allocations, he said, an inventory of verified shots had built up. But for the second week, newly manufactured doses needed to be checked, meaning states would receive fewer than they had anticipated.
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