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Michigan has become the new epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., with one health expert linking the surge to the spread of the U.K. variant from neighbouring Ontario.
Data compiled by John Hopkins University shows that Michigan is currently recording the highest daily infections per capita in the United States, averaging 7,359 new cases per day over the past week.
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The U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says much of the COVID-19 surge is due to the spread of the U.K. variant, which is more transmissible and lethal than the original strain.
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San Francisco s health department will run out of Covid-19 vaccine doses by Thursday, mayor says
From CNN s Alexandra Meeks
Dr. Sean McElligott pulls out boxes containing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at Seton Medical Center on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, in Daly City, near San Francisco, California. Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images
Amid an increased demand for coronavirus vaccines nationwide, San Francisco s Department of Public Health announced their vaccine supply will be exhausted by Thursday if they don t immediately receive an additional allotment. All of the Department of Public Health s remaining vaccine doses are scheduled for individuals to receive their first or second doses this week and unless we get more vaccine, the Department of Public Health will run out of our existing supply by this Thursday, Mayor London Breed said at a news conference Tuesday.
China and WHO acted too slowly on Covid-19, pandemic response panel says
From CNN s Jessie Yeung and Sharif Paget
Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. Getty Images
China and the World Health Organization (WHO) could have acted quicker and more forcefully to contain the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, an independent review panel said on Monday.
In its second interim report, the Switzerland-based Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response determined that Beijing could have been more vigorous in applying public health measures when cases were first detected in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei province.