CNN s Laura Jarrett is answering your questions as minorities face hurdles to vaccination
CNN s Go There is in New York as minorities face hurdles to vaccination.
For example, last month, a Covid-19 vaccination site in a Latino neighborhood in New York City hard hit by the pandemic saw an overwhelming number of White people from outside the community show up to get the shot this month, laying bare a national disparity that shows people of color are being vaccinated at dramatically lower rates.
Laura Jarrett is answering your questions.
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A pair of small studies found that patients previously infected with COVID-19 given their first vaccine dose showed the sort of robust immune response that people generally tend to have following their second dose.
Cancelation of Germany s carnival will result in $1.8 billion loss nationwide, economic institute says
From CNN s Nadine Schmidt and Claudia Otto
The cancelation of Germany’s popular annual carnival celebrations, which involve stage events, stalls and parades, will lead to a
nationwide loss of 1.5 billion euro (
$1.8 billion), according to the Cologne-based German Economic Institute (IW).
Retailers and hotels will suffer the greatest economic losses, according to IW. It estimates about 330 million euro ($400 million) will be lost in the retail sector, the bulk of it from lost revenue in costume sales.
The hotel industry, which would typically take high numbers of bookings at this time of year for the celebrations, will lose an estimated 160 million euro, IW said in a press release on Monday.
Majority of Americans could be vaccinated by the middle or end of summer, says Fauci
From CNN s Naomi Thomas
Educational staff at Kettering City Schools receive the Covid-19 vaccine as a part of Ohio s Phase 1B vaccine distribution in Dayton, Ohio, on February 10. Megan Jelinger/AFP/Getty Images
The top US infectious diseases expert said Thursday that
“open season” for Covid-19 vaccination could begin in April, and that the country may be able to vaccinate the majority of Americans by the middle or end of summer.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NBC’s Savannah Guthrie on the Today show that he thought the pace of vaccination was going to pick up going into March and April.
New, small studies found patients previously infected with COVID who were given their first vaccine dose showed the sort of robust immune response that people tend to have following their second