TURNING A CORNER
Covid hospitalizations plunge 10% in 24 states and cases decline nationwide as Fauci says one-shot vaccine is WEEKS away
Updated: 23 Jan 2021, 17:02
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CORONAVIRUS hospitalizations have plunged 10 per cent in 24 states as Dr Anthony Fauci revealed a one-shot vaccine is just weeks away from approval.
Although cases across the country rose by 189,000 on Friday, data from The Covid Tracking Project revealed there were 3,685 fewer hospitalizations compared to the day before.
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Dr Anthony Fauci said a single-dose vaccine should be approved in weeksCredit: Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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The number of hospitalizations has dropped in 26 states
As of Friday night, more than 24.6million Americans have tested positive for coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic.
How Colorado avoided a post-holiday COVID-19 surge
Public health experts said the answer is difficult to track down with changing variables and a lack of contact tracing. Author: Liz Kotalik Updated: 9:18 PM MST January 22, 2021
COLORADO, USA As COVID-19 cases across the country surged before the holidays, public health departments messages of concern eventually became sighs of relief in Colorado.
“[A] pleasant surprise after Thanksgiving turned into even more of a pleasant surprise after Christmas and New Year’s,” Tri-County Health Department Executive Director Dr. John Douglas said.
Douglas said pinpointing why Colorado avoided a post-holiday spike is not necessarily easy when so much is changing.
Has the COVID-19 pandemic peaked in CT? Maybe, maybe not
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Front-line workers are vaccinated with the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on the first day of vaccinations in Norwich, Connecticut, on December 15, 2020.JOSEPH PREZIOSO / TNSShow MoreShow Less
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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2021, file photo, Connecticut National Guard members wait to check-in vehicles for Connecticut s largest COVID-19 Vaccination Drive-Through Clinic in East Hartford, Conn. The push to inoculate Americans against the coronavirus is hitting a roadblock: A number of states are reporting they are running out of vaccine, and tens of thousands of people who managed to get appointments for a first dose are seeing them canceled. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)Jessica Hill / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
U.S. Coronavirus Cases Are Falling, but Variants Could Erase Progress
New daily cases are starting to slow in what some health experts see as a turning point. But they warn of a bumpy vaccination rollout amid the emergence of more contagious variants.
Coronavirus testing in Murray, Utah, this month. New coronavirus cases in the U.S. have fallen 16 percent in the last two weeks.Credit.Kim Raff for The New York Times
Published Jan. 22, 2021Updated Jan. 27, 2021
CHICAGO In recent days, coronavirus cases have been dropping steadily across the United States, with hospitalizations falling in concert. But health officials are growing increasingly concerned that quickly circulating variants of the virus could cause new surges of cases faster than the country is managing to distribute Covid-19 vaccines.