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White House now admits the number of daily vaccinations WILL be affected after pause of J&J shot despite shipments of Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines increasing by 7% next week The U.S. government is increasing its allocations of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccine by 7% next week compared to this week More than 10 million first and second doses of the Pfizer vaccine will be shipped, an increase from 9.4 million during the week of April 12 In addition, 7.4 million initial a...

Blood clots found in six people given Johnson & Johnson's Covid-19 vaccine have led federal health officials to recommend a pause on dosing with that shot. A CDC advisory committee on vaccine practices is meeting Wednesday to review the cases, which so appear similar cases observed in Europe with AstraZeneca's vaccine.

Global COVID cases are now RISING again - 5% in a week - with US infections rising 2.5% in 24 hours and more than 3,000 deaths for the first time in 10 days Worldwide, 378,250 new cases were confirmed on Wednesday - up nearly five percent from the February 18 low of 361,124 new infections    In the US, the seven-day rolling average of new cases has ticked back up for the past four days in a row, with 74,502 recorded Wednesday, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.  That was an inc...

The U.S. vaccine supply is poised to double in the coming weeks and months, according to an analysis by Bloomberg, allowing a broad expansion of doses administered across the country. Currently, the U.S. is administering 1.6 million doses a day, constrained by the recent supply of about 10 million t

COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers and U.S. officials have accelerated their production timelines and signaled that the spigots are about to open.

COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers and U.S. officials have accelerated production timelines and signaled that the spigots are about to open, providing hundreds of millions of doses to match growing capacity to immunize people at pharmacies and mass-vaccination sites.

Updated on February 3, 2021 at 8:41 am NBC Universal, Inc. As part of a national push to get doses of the coronavirus vaccine directly to pharmacies, 18 CVS locations in Massachusetts are slated to receive shipments starting next Thursday. “This will provide more sites for people to get vaccinated in their communities and it’s an important component to delivering vaccines equitably," White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zeints said. The federal government will send doses directly ...

And, the National Review blisters Governor Gina Raimondo’s program and the failure to prioritize seniors who statistically are at the greatest risk. “Perhaps Rhode Island seniors should consider committing crimes and getting incarcerated, to move ahead in line. The state started vaccinating incarcerated persons over age 65 in January. Adults 75 and over are projected to start in February,” writes the National Review.   According to the CDC and updated on this weekend, RI has now: Receiv...

CDC Director Says U.S. Could See 500K COVID-19 Deaths by Feb. 20 at Virus Briefing By Spectrum News Staff Nationwide PUBLISHED 11:57 AM ET Jan. 27, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:57 AM EST Jan. 27, 2021 SHARE President Joe Biden promised that the first White House COVID-19 briefing of the Biden-Harris administration would feature “bringing back the pros t...

It also features legislation hitching the federal increase in unemployment benefits to economic factors on the ground, thereby precluding the need for Congress to extend those benefits with new legislation down the road. Sponsored by Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.), head of the Joint Economic Committee, and Derek Kilmer "This unprecedented crisis has called for unprecedented action, and it has long been clear that additional aid and stimulus is required to end the pandemic, provide direct support to th...