The Health 202: How bad are these coronavirus variants? Here s what experts say. Paige Winfield Cunningham
with Alexandra Ellerbeck The pathway out of the coronavirus pandemic is looking somewhat bumpier than it did one month ago.
Three more transmissible strains are threatening to prolong the United States’s struggle with the virus. These mutations are tempering hopes that life might start feeling more normal by the summer – even as the daily pace of immunizations accelerates. “The road to herd immunity from the coronavirus suddenly looks longer,” our colleagues Joel Achenbach and Ariana Eunjung Cha report. “The emergence of more transmissible, potentially vaccine-evading variants threatens to extend the global health disaster and make 2021 feel too much like 2020.”
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Overnight Dash To Give Out Covid Vaccine Shots Due to A Failed Freezer All night, staff and volunteers with Seattle s Swedish Health Services had been rushing to administer hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine set to expire
Updated: January 31, 2021 7:55 am IST
In the end, none of the more than 1,600 soon-to-expire doses were wasted. (Representational)
The last shots were given at about 3:45 AM, out on the street, with literally no time to spare.
All night, staff and volunteers with Seattle s Swedish Health Services had been rushing to administer hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine set to expire early in the morning after a freezer malfunction. Finally, they had only a few dozen shots left and about 15 minutes to get them into people s arms.