Covid-19 Live Updates: Biden Officials Confront U.S. Vaccination Woes
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Dr. Vivek Murthy, President Biden’s nominee for surgeon general, spoke in Wilmington, Del., last month.Credit.Hilary Swift for The New York Times
Four Biden officials tried on Sunday to manage public expectations about vaccine distribution, as frustration grows among Americans over long lines, canceled appointments and other daunting issues.
The officials also tried to smooth over confusion about President Biden’s goal of 100 million shots in the first 100 days of his administration. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease specialist, called the figure “a floor, not a ceiling,” on the CBS program “Face the Nation.”
At least two American companies, as well as Russian researchers, are working on coronavirus vaccines for mink. The animals have grown sick and died in large numbers from the virus, which they have also passed back to people in mutated form.
Finnish auction house takes over Wisconsin mink trading hub
Chris Hubbuch
STOUGHTON, Wis. (AP) – Under the harsh light of fluorescent bulbs in an unadorned warehouse, Claudia Manzanilla picks up a stiff mink pelt and runs her fingers along the silvery fur.
In less than a second, she assesses the length of the fur, sorts it and grabs another seemingly identical pelt from a pile of stiffened animal skins.
The evaluation is one step in an elaborate process to grade the furs provided by American mink farmers before they re sold a step that almost didn t happen this year.
Last fall North American Fur Auctions, a 350-year-old Canadian company with offices in Stoughton, entered court-supervised restructuring, closing one of the primary market portals just as Wisconsin mink ranchers were beginning their harvest.
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A wild mink in Utah is the first wild animal anywhere to test positive for COVID-19, researchers say
The animal was found and tested near an infected fur farm.
(Sergei Grits | AP file photo)FILE - In this Sept. 4, 2015, file photo, a mink sniffs the air near a the village of Khatenchitsy, Belarus on Sept. 4, 2015. A wild mink in Utah has become the first wild animal to test positive for COVID-19. It was found near an infected fur farm. | Updated: 12:46 a.m.
A wild mink in Utah is the first free-ranging native animal anywhere to test positive for COVID-19.
It was found and tested near an infected fur farm, and that has some national groups raising alarms.