California Deaths Hit Record; N.Y. Toll Above 100: Virus Update
Bloomberg 12/17/2020 Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) Pfizer Inc. and U.S. drug regulators are revising information for use and monitoring of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine after rare allergic reactions. The company also said it has shipped all 2.9 million doses that the U.S. government ordered this week, while governors from several states say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told them they will get fewer doses than planned.
California set a record for fatalities for the second consecutive day. New York state again topped 100 daily deaths, as Arizona reported the highest death toll since August. The U.S. passed 17 million total infections.
California Deaths Hit Record; N.Y. Toll Above 100: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/17/2020 Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) Pfizer Inc. and U.S. drug regulators are revising information for use and monitoring of the company’s Covid-19 vaccine after rare allergic reactions. The company also said it has shipped all 2.9 million doses that the U.S. government ordered this week, while governors from several states say the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has told them they will get fewer doses than planned.
California set a record for fatalities for the second consecutive day. New York state again topped 100 daily deaths, as Arizona reported the highest death toll since August. The U.S. passed 17 million total infections.
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California Crisis Deepens; U.S. Allergic Reaction: Virus Update Bloomberg 12/16/2020 Bloomberg News
(Bloomberg) New cases in California shattered another record as a deepening crisis threatens a shortage of intensive-care beds and medical staff. The most-populous U.S. state is struggling to control its outbreak even as most residents are under stay-at-home orders.
The first hiccups in the distribution of a Covid-19 vaccine in the U.S. included a holdup in delivering 3,900 shots to two states and the announcement that Pfizer Inc. would ship about 900,000 fewer doses next week than are set to ship this week. A health-care worker in Alaska who received the shot experienced the first known severe allergic event in the U.S.
As of 2pm today, 207 Covid patients are hospitalised across the country, of which 30 are in ICU. 22 additional hospitalisations have occurred in the past 24 hours.
Speaking on Wednesday, Chief Medical Officer Tony Holohan said: We are seeing significant and concerning indicators that this disease in moving in the wrong direction, including an increase in positivity rates, and 7 day and 14 day incidence, and our 5 day average has now increased to 339 cases. Recent international experience has demonstrated just how quickly this disease can get out of control. These trends are all the more troubling because of the delicate and precarious situation we are in - as a country, we are heading into a period of potential widespread inter-household and inter-generational mixing.