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(Reuters) - U.S. health officials sought to speed up the sluggish pace of COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday, as the coronavirus claimed over 4,000 American lives for a second straight day and employment data showed the pandemic further stifling the job market.
As of Thursday, roughly 6 million people across the United States had received a first injection of the two-shot vaccines, accounting for less than one-third of more than 21 million doses shipped to date, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
That number falls far short of the 20 million vaccinations the U.S. government had vowed to administer by the end of 2020 as the pandemic raged largely unchecked with ever-increasing record numbers of infections, hospitalizations and deaths.
Reuters Published: 08 Jan 2021 12:01 AM BdST Updated: 08 Jan 2021 12:01 AM BdST Healthcare personnel surround a patient who died inside a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) unit at United Memorial Medical Center as the United States nears 300,000 COVID-19 deaths, in Houston, Texas, US, December 12, 2020. Reuters
As the events that unfolded in Washington on Wednesday captured the nation s attention, the raging coronavirus pandemic claimed its highest US death toll yet, killing more than 4,000 people in a single day, according to a Reuters tally. ); }
COVID-19 hospitalisations stood at 132,051, setting a grim record for the fourth day in a row as of late Wednesday night, a Reuters analysis of public health data showed.
106 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Erie County
Erie Times-News staff
Erie County has 12,105 total cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic started.
As of Saturday night, there were 98 COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Erie County, 42 of them in adult intensive care unit beds. Eight patients were using ventilators.
Pennsylvania’s total number of cases increased to 661,871. There were 56 new deaths across the state, moving the total number of related deaths to 16,295.
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