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Apr 01, 2021
COVID-19 Was 3rd Leading Cause Of Death In US For 2020, CDC Says
Death rates last year overall were highest among Black people and American Indian and Alaska Native people. The COVID-19 death rate was highest among Hispanic people.
CARLA K. JOHNSON
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed total U.S. deaths last year beyond 3.3 million, the nation’s highest annual death toll, the government reported Wednesday.
The coronavirus caused approximately 375,000 deaths, and was the third leading cause of death in 2020, after heart disease and cancer. COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now top 550,000 since the start of the pandemic.
COVID-19 displaced suicide as one of the top 10 causes of death, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Appointments fill up as COVID vaccine eligibility expands
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FILE - In this March 3, 2021, file photo, pharmacist Madeline Acquilano draws a syringe of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn.Jessica Hill / Associated PressShow MoreShow Less
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Joanne Kombert, R.N., adminsters the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a Hartford HealthCare and St. Vincent s Medical Center vaccination clinic for parishioners of St. Charles Borromeo Church at McGivney Community Center in Bridgeport, Conn., on Tuesday March 23, 2021.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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Beginning Thursday, everyone 16 and older can register for a COVID-19 vaccine appointment in Connecticut.
NEW YORK - Pfizer and BioNTech announced Thursday their COVID-19 vaccine lasts a minimum of six months in defending against the virus after the second dose, as revealed in their Phase 3 clinical trial.
CNN reported Pfizer and BioNTech said, The vaccine was 100% effective against severe disease as defined by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and 95.3% effective against severe COVID-19 as defined by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
CNN added the companies said the vaccine protects entirely against the South African COVID-19 variant, B.1.351.Â
Previously, it was reported the Pfizer vaccine s protection was effective a minimum of 90 days.Â
Tribal Vaccine Clinics
Lacking a statewide vaccine distribution plan, Montanaâs overstretched counties and tribal governments have developed a mishmash of policies and plans that require ingenuity and mutual support to work. A joint reporting project by KHN, the Montana Free Press and the University of Montana School of Journalism finds the biggest test of that disparate system looms as vaccine eligibility expands. 1 of 4
A nurse administers the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine during a Confederated Salish and Kootenai vaccination clinic at the KwaTaqNuk Resort in Polson, Montana, on March 30, 2021. (Tailyr Irvine)
Tribal health nurse Malia Kipp helps Marlene Reaves through the vaccination questionnaire before her vaccine during a Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribal vaccination clinic at the KwaTaqNuk Resort in Polson, Montana, on March 30, 2021. (Tailyr Irvine)
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As eligibility expands to everyone age 16 and older, CT offers more locations to get COVID vaccine
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Nurse Joanne Kombert administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during a Hartford HealthCare and St. Vincent s Medical Center vaccination clinic for parishioners of St. Charles Borromeo Church at McGivney Community Center in Bridgeport, Conn., on Tuesday March 23, 2021.Christian Abraham / Hearst Connecticut Media
As vaccine appointments open to everyone 16 and over in Connecticut Thursday, state officials said more than 100 new pharmacies across the state will start administering the vaccine within the next several days.
With Connecticut officials estimating about half the 1.3 million people age 16 to 44 will rush out for the vaccine, the new pharmacy locations may ease efforts to find appointments as the state works to quickly vaccinate this new group.