Coronavirus updates: Death toll surpasses 400,000 in US
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By MORGAN WINSOR, ERIN SCHUMAKER and EMILY SHAPIRO, ABC News
(NEW YORK) A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 95.6 million people worldwide and killed over 2 million of them, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
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US hospitalizations decreased on 13 days in January
In a continued encouraging sign, the number of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the U.S. decreased on 13 days in January, according to The COVID Tracking Project.
That metric, which is “more resilient” than others to holiday reporting disruptions, increased six times this month, most recently on Jan. 12, it found.
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A team of fast-acting health care workers saved the day and potentially hundreds of lives on Monday after a freezer malfunction nearly destroyed 830 doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
Somewhere around 2 a.m. the compressor of the freezer holding vials of the medicine at the Adventist Health Ukiah Valley Medical Center in Mendocino County, Calif., failed, President Judson Howe told NPR.
That started a ticking clock on the shelf life of the vaccines, which can only be used for 12 hours once they re removed from refrigeration of 36 to 46 degrees Fahrenheit.
Normally, this would have triggered an alarm, Howe explained. But for some unknown reason, that also failed.