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COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers and U.S. officials have accelerated production timelines and signaled that the spigots are about to open, providing hundreds of millions of doses to match growing capacity to immunize people at pharmacies and mass-vaccination sites.
Updated on February 3, 2021 at 8:41 am NBC Universal, Inc. As part of a national push to get doses of the coronavirus vaccine directly to pharmacies, 18 CVS locations in Massachusetts are slated to receive shipments starting next Thursday. “This will provide more sites for people to get vaccinated in their communities and it’s an important component to delivering vaccines equitably," White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zeints said. The federal government will send doses directly to drugstores beginning Feb. 11, Zients said, including Walgreens and CVS locations. Due to constrai...
And, the National Review blisters Governor Gina Raimondo’s program and the failure to prioritize seniors who statistically are at the greatest risk. “Perhaps Rhode Island seniors should consider committing crimes and getting incarcerated, to move ahead in line. The state started vaccinating incarcerated persons over age 65 in January. Adults 75 and over are projected to start in February,” writes the National Review. According to the CDC and updated on this weekend, RI has now: Received 151,675 doses Of the vaccine doses received, RI has utilized 47% —a drop from 53%* updated 1/27...
CDC Director Says U.S. Could See 500K COVID-19 Deaths by Feb. 20 at Virus Briefing By Spectrum News Staff Nationwide PUBLISHED 11:57 AM ET Jan. 27, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:57 AM EST Jan. 27, 2021 SHARE President Joe Biden promised that the first White House COVID-19 briefing of the Biden-Harris administration would feature “bringing back the pros to talk about COVID in an unvarnished way,” and the experts certainly lived up to that expectation....
It also features legislation hitching the federal increase in unemployment benefits to economic factors on the ground, thereby precluding the need for Congress to extend those benefits with new legislation down the road. Sponsored by Reps. Don Beyer (D-Va.), head of the Joint Economic Committee, and Derek Kilmer "This unprecedented crisis has called for unprecedented action, and it has long been clear that additional aid and stimulus is required to end the pandemic, provide direct support to those in need, ensure a lasting recovery, and prepare for future crises," the lawmakers wrote to Biden...