Coronavirus Briefing: What Happened Today
President Biden called on employers to give their workers paid time off to get inoculated.
April 21, 2021
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New estimates show that antibody rates among Black and Hispanic New Yorkers are double those of other groups.
U.S. regulators cited shortcomings after inspecting a Baltimore plant where J.&J. doses were ruined.
Convincing the other half
In President Biden’s latest push to get Americans vaccinated, he called today on all of the nation’s employers to give their workers paid time off to get inoculated and recover from any aftereffects. The White House also offered tax credits to offset the costs for companies with fewer than 500 employees.
Pace of vaccinations may be slowing; Joints for Jabs a hit in DC; Ted Nugent admits pandemic is real : Live COVID-19 updates John Bacon, USA TODAY
The pace of vaccinations in the United States may be slowing down as vaccine hesitancy takes hold.
About 1.8 million vaccination jabs were reported Tuesday, the lowest one-day number in two weeks. Some of the decline could be attributed to availability, dinged by a pause in Johnson & Johnson doses. But demand has softened at some vaccinations sites, even as vaccine availability has been opened up to every U.S. adult. About 1 in 4 Americans say they might decline vaccination.
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Twice as many black and Hispanic New Yorkers caught coronavirus last spring compared to white people and a QUARTER of city residents were infected, antibody study reveals
Researchers looked at coronavirus antibody levels among New York City residents between May 13, 2020 and July 21, 2020
About 35% of Hispanic New Yorkers and 33% of black New Yorkers tested positive for antibodies
Comparatively, just 16% of white residents had antibodies, meaning rates among minorities were more than twice as high
Frontline jobs with mostly minority employees, such as nursing care facilities and home health care service, were the sectors with the highest antibody rates
New York City data show 44% of white residents have received at least one vaccine dose compared to 26% of blacks and 31% of Hispanics
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