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.
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The head of the World Health Organization says the world is “on the brink of a moral catastrophic failure” for its unequal sharing of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Addressing a WHO executive board meeting in Geneva on Monday, Executive Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it is “not right that younger, healthier adults in rich countries are vaccinated before health workers and older people in poorer countries.”
“More than 39 million doses of vaccine have now been administered in at least 49 higher-income countries. Just 25 doses have been given in one lowest-income country not 25 million, not 25,000 just 25,” he said.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, speaks during the 148th session of the Executive Board on the coronavirus disease outbreak in Geneva, Switzerland, January 18, 2021. (Christopher Black/WHO/Handout)
China, WHO Made Mistakes That Contributed to Global Spread of Pandemic: Panel
An independent panel has criticized Beijing and the World Health Organization (WHO) over their delayed response to the COVID-19 outbreak in China caused by the CCP virus.
“What is clear to the Panel is that public health measures could have been applied more forcefully by local and national health authorities in China in January [2020],” the interim report said.
The panel, established by the WHO in response to a World Health Assembly resolution in May 2020, is called the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response. It is co-chaired by former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark and former Liberian president Ellen Sirleaf.