USA TODAY The Great British Baking Show judge Prue Leith became the first celebrity to publicly receive the COVID-19 vaccine, she revealed Tuesday in a tweet.
Leith, an 80-year-old celebrity chef and a longtime United Kingdom resident, shared a photo of herself sitting in a doctor s office in Oxfordshire, England, wearing a mask and a signature statement necklace. Who wouldn t want immunity from #Covid19 with a painless jab?? she wrote, adding the hashtag #vaccine.
USA TODAY has reached out to Leith s representative for further comment.
The Guardian reported in November that the U.K. s state-run National Health Service was planning to enlist sensible celebrities to help quell skepticism about the vaccine.
The US hit a new record for hospitalizations with 110,549 patients being treated for COVID-19 yesterday
The number of hospitalizations has surpassed the 100,000 mark every day for the last two weeks with the seven-day rolling average of patients now at 107,856
There were 1,311 new deaths and more than 193,000 new cases reported on the same day that Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine started rolling out across the country
The death toll surpassed the grim 300,000 milestone yesterday just hours after the first COVID-19 vaccine was administered in the country
The Midwestern states of North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa currently have the highest number of deaths per 100,000 people based on a seven-day average
The Covid-19 vaccine rollout continues across the U.S. Tuesday. The first shots of Pfizer s two-dose vaccine, administered to health care workers, were met with applause and relief Monday. While the rollout is an encouraging new chapter in the country s fight against the coronavirus, it ll still be a few months until the general public can line up at a doctor s office or a neighborhood drugstore to get the shot. Health experts caution social distancing and masks are key to preventing viral spread in the meantime.
The U.S. is recording at least 215,400 new Covid-19 cases and at least 2,300 virus-related deaths each day, based on a seven-day average calculated by CNBC using Johns Hopkins University data.
Dr. Fauci wants people to hold onto their masks until at least next fall
As exciting as it was to see health care workers across the U.S. receive COVID-19 vaccinations Monday, experts want to make clear that the coronavirus pandemic is far from over. It s not going to be like turning a light switch on and off, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said during a virtual event with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. It s going to be gradual, and I think we will know when we see the level of infection in the country at a dramatically lower level than it is right now that we can start gradually tiptoeing toward normality.