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With the national Covid death toll surpassing 300,000, the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine left a facility in Kalamazoo, Mich., on December 13, kicking off an extraordinary effort to inoculate nearly all Americans against the coronavirus. The vaccination campaign faces enormous challenges: the need to keep that vaccine at –94 degrees Fahrenheit, for one. But the challenges are not only logistical. Serious ethical questions remain about who will be at the front of the line.
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California is desperately searching for healthcare workers to handle the pandemic. The state is seeking 3,000 temporary medical workers to meet the demand,
Associated Press. Officials are asking foreign partners, including in Australia and Taiwan, for help.
State officials are reaching out to foreign partners amid a shortage of temporary medical workers in the United States, particularly nurses trained in critical care.”
Dr. Mark Ghaly, California’s Health and Human Services secretary, said that regions might run out of surge capacity units “by the end of the month and early in January.”
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US reaches new agreement with coronavirus vaccine suppliers
December 23, 2020 7:09 AM Associated Press
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Surgeon General of the U.S. Jerome Adams, left, elbow-bumps Emergency Room technician Demetrius Mcalister after Mcalister got the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at Saint Anthony Hospital in Chicago, on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020.
WASHINGTON (AP) Pfizer and BioNTech will supply the U.S. with an additional 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine under a second agreement.
The drugmakers said Wednesday that they expect to deliver all the doses by July 31.
Pfizer already has a contract to supply the government with 100 million doses of its vaccine, which requires two doses per patient.