US vaccine rollout hindered by faulty coordination, messaging
On Wednesday, US officials declined to provide estimates for the number of vaccines they are giving every day
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The missteps have put the number of vaccinations well behind targets set by the Trump administration’s US Operation Warp Speed effort
US officials have pledged that vaccinations will accelerate in coming weeks, with a more coordinated program to administer vaccines in nursing homes
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As the US grapples with record hospitalizations and deaths from the Covid-19 pandemic, a crucial vaccination rollout campaign is being impeded by inconsistent messaging and myriad state strategies as a new variant of the virus drives up infection rates, according to public health experts.
US COVID-19 cases top 21 million with record hospitalisations as states ramp up vaccinations
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People wait in line at a CityMD Urgent Care facility to get tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, U.S., January 6, 2021. Reuters/File
US COVID-19 hospitalisations reached a record 130,834 late on Tuesday
One in every 914 US residents has died from COVID-19 since pandemic began
Many healthcare systems have approached a breaking point
NEW YORK: More Americans were hospitalised with COVID-19 on Wednesday than at any time since the pandemic began, as total coronavirus infections crossed the 21 million mark, deaths soared across much of the United States, and a historic vaccination effort lagged.
U.S. vaccine rollout hindered by faulty coordination, messaging
The missteps have put the number of vaccinations well behind targets set by the Trump administration s U.S. Operation Warp Speed effort.
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As the U.S. grapples with record hospitalizations and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, a crucial vaccination rollout campaign is being impeded by inconsistent messaging and myriad state strategies as a new variant of the virus drives up infection rates, according to public health experts.
The missteps have put the number of vaccinations well behind targets set by the Trump administration’s U.S. Operation Warp Speed effort. About 5.46 million doses have been administered in the U.S. since mid-December, or 32 percent of those that have been distributed across the country and well below the Trump administration’s goal of 20 million by the end of 2020, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News. Vaccination rates have ranged significantly acr
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research approved 53 first-of-their-kind medicines in 2020, demonstrating the pandemic did not slow the agency s efforts in clearing novel drugs for the U.S. market.
The FDA tied its 1996 record for approving new molecular entities, or NMEs an all-time high that was shattered in 2018 when regulators in the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, or CDER, cleared 59 novel therapies.
CDER approved 48 NMEs in 2019.
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The 53 NME approvals in 2020 will give FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn a high note on which to depart the agency after a year of defending his actions in the pandemic against a number of critics, including President Donald Trump, who made unsubstantiated claims the regulatory chief and the scientists he oversees moved too sl
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More infectious COVID-19 variant in at least five US states: NIH Director
Dr Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, testifies during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing in Washington on Sep 9, 2020. (Photo: Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS)
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WASHINGTON: A more contagious variant of COVID-19 that has swept through the United Kingdom has been reported in at least five states in the US, National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins said in an interview to the Washington Post on Wednesday (Jan 6).