9:41 p.m. ET, January 19, 2021
San Francisco s health department will run out of Covid-19 vaccine doses by Thursday, mayor says
From CNN s Alexandra Meeks
Dr. Sean McElligott pulls out boxes containing the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine at Seton Medical Center on Tuesday, December 22, 2020, in Daly City, near San Francisco, California. Yalonda M. James/The San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Images
Amid an increased demand for coronavirus vaccines nationwide, San Francisco s Department of Public Health announced their vaccine supply will be exhausted by Thursday if they don t immediately receive an additional allotment. All of the Department of Public Health s remaining vaccine doses are scheduled for individuals to receive their first or second doses this week and unless we get more vaccine, the Department of Public Health will run out of our existing supply by this Thursday, Mayor London Breed said at a news conference Tuesday.
China and WHO acted too slowly on Covid-19, pandemic response panel says
From CNN s Jessie Yeung and Sharif Paget
Former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark. Getty Images
China and the World Health Organization (WHO) could have acted quicker and more forcefully to contain the start of the Covid-19 outbreak, an independent review panel said on Monday.
In its second interim report, the Switzerland-based Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response determined that Beijing could have been more vigorous in applying public health measures when cases were first detected in the city of Wuhan, in Hubei province.
WHO chief disappointed as Covid-19 investigators China mission stalls
From CNN s Steve George in Hong Kong
WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference organized by the Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents amid the Covid-19 pandemic on July 3, 2020 in Geneva. Fabrice Coffrini/Pool/AFP/Getty Images
World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that some members of the international scientific team investigating the origins of Covid-19 were told at the last minute that they did not yet have the necessary permissions to arrive in China including some who were already en route.
Tedros said that some members of that scientific team had already begun their travels from their home countries to China in the 24 hours prior to learning arrangements that had been agreed to between WHO, the Chinese government and countries that the team were to travel through on their way to Wuhan had not been finalize
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