Also over the weekend, several countries announced plans to shut their borders to Britain as news of a highly contagious new variant of the coronavirus led the British government to backtrack on plans to let families mix over Christmas. The U.K. is locking down London and other areas in southern England where infections by the Covid mutation are heavily concentrated.
The U.S. is recording at least 215,700 new Covid-19 cases and at least 2,600 virus-related deaths each day, based on a seven-day average calculated by CNBC using Johns Hopkins University data.
The following data was compiled by Johns Hopkins University:
Cashiers wearing protective masks work in a grocery store in Brooklyn, N.Y. in April. An expert panel that advises the CDC recommended that grocery store workers be in the second Covid-19 vaccine priority group.
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An expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended Sunday that adults aged 75 and older, as well as frontline essential workers, be designated as the second priority group to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices also voted to recommend that the third stage of the national vaccination program should focus on adults 65 to 74, people 16 to 64 years old with high-risk medical conditions, and essential workers not included in the second phase of vaccination.
Who Will Get the COVID-19 Vaccine Next? U.S. Experts Have Cast Their Votes
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The COVID-19 vaccine should next be given to those aged 75 and over and frontline essential workers, according to the latest recommendation by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The panel voted 13 to 1 on Sunday to recommend 30 million frontline essential workers, which includes first responders and teachers, as well as food and agriculture, manufacturing, U.S. Postal Service, public transit and grocery store workers, be prioritized for vaccination. The latest recommendation would make a total of around 51 million people eligible for the vaccine in the next round of inoculations.
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Vaccinations move to nursing homes as pandemic rages in California By Carl O Donnell and Richa Naidu
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination in in West Hartford, Connecticut
NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. government and two of the nation’s largest pharmacy chains on Monday began inoculating nursing home residents against COVID-19, among the first Americans besides healthcare workers to get the vaccine.
The vaccinations, carried out under a program led by Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc and CVS Health Corp, are the latest effort to rein in a pandemic that has killed more than 317,000 Americans and strained healthcare systems.
California, an epicenter in the latest surge in infections, had no more intensive care unit beds available in the heavily populated Los Angeles area or in the state’s San Joaquin Valley agricultural hub, Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday.