States report confusion as government reduces vaccine shipments, while Pfizer says it has ‘millions’ of unclaimed doses Isaac Stanley-Becker, Yasmeen Abutaleb, Lena H. Sun, Josh Dawsey © Stephanie Zollshan /AP Margo Mazzeo, a nurse in the coronavirus testing center, is the first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Mass., Thursday. (Stephanie Zollshan/The Berkshire Eagle via AP) Officials in multiple states said they were alerted late Wednesday that their second shipments of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine had been drastically cut for next week, sparking widespread confusion and conflicting statements from Pfizer and federal officials about who was at fault.
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The U.S. blew past records for daily new Covid-19 cases and virus deaths on Wednesday, as the national crisis continues to worsen. More than 247,000 new infections and more than 3,600 Covid deaths were reported on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University data, the highest single-day tallies yet. A record 113,000 people are currently hospitalized with the virus, according to The Atlantic s COVID Tracking Project. The new and disheartening highs come at the same time the U.S. is beginning a vaccine rollout.
The U.S. is recording at least 215,729 new Covid-19 cases and at least 2,570 virus-related deaths each day, based on a seven-day average calculated by CNBC using Johns Hopkins University data.