Tabling concerns about second-dose supplies, the president-elect has a new strategy to combat the slow rollout of vaccines for the novel coronavirus under Trump.
Christie Aiello, left and Denise Gomez prepare the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine for medical workers at St. Joseph Hospital in Orange, Calif., on Thursday. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
WASHINGTON (CN) To get more vaccines shot into the arms of Americans still grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic, President-elect Joe Biden announced Friday he would release almost all available doses in the U.S. to speed up distribution.
President Donald Trump’s outgoing administration has only released about half of its vaccine stores, intending to keep enough supply to ensure that all individuals who got the first of two shots as part of the vaccination would still get the second dose.
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(Bloomberg) Connecticut, Texas and Pennsylvania reported their first cases of the virus variant that helped trigger a U.K. lockdown amid concern that Covid-19 deaths in the U.S. are likely to maintain a near-record pace at least through January. Mounting hospitalizations are offsetting any positive effect from the halting start to inoculations.
New York, New Jersey, Florida and North Carolina are among states that reported daily records as Illinois became the fifth state to surpass 1 million infections. Fatalities in Arizona reached a high and those in California were just two deaths from the record set at the end of 2020.
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APPLE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 05: A patient lies on a stretcher in a hallway in the overloaded Emergency Room at Providence St. Mary Medical Center amid a surge in COVID-19 patients in Southern California on January 5, 2021 in Apple Valley, California. California has issued a new directive ordering hospitals with space to accept patients from other hospitals which have run out of ICU beds due to the coronavirus pandemic. The order could result in patients being shipped from Southern California to Northern California as Southern California continues to have zero percent of its remaining ICU (Intensive Care Unit) bed capacity. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Mario Tama / Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
The US coronavirus vaccine rollout has been slow, and some states eager to move more doses are beginning to vaccinate more than the health care workers and nursing home residents initially at the front of the line.