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US Covid cases down 61% since peak, troops deploy for vaccine campaign Issued on: 05/02/2021 - 18:49 2 min Washington (AFP) New US Covid-19 cases have declined by 61 percent compared to the peak level on January 8, officials said Friday, as they announced troops were being deployed to support the national vaccine campaign. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director Rochelle Walensky said that latest official data from February 3 showed new infections were down to approximately 121,000, while hospitalizations were down nearly 42 percent and the pace of deaths appears to be sl...

Biden seeks to give vaccine effort a shot in the arm Chris Megerian © Provided by The LA Times Residents line up to get COVID-19 vaccine shots at the Balboa Sports Complex in Encino. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times) President Biden will harness the Defense Production Act to speed production of COVID-19 vaccines, his administration announced Friday, and the Pentagon is expected to deploy more than 1,000 active-duty troops to staff community inoculation sites, starting in California. Invoking the Defense Production Act is intended to ensure Pfizer can obtain the filling pump...

email article Tens of millions at-home coronavirus tests will be available by the end of the summer, the White House's COVID-19 Response Team said during a press briefing on Friday. "At-home tests are one of the key steps to getting back to normal life," said Andy Slavitt, a senior advisor to the White House's COVID-19 Response Team. Tim Manning, the team's national supply chain coordinator, said the U.S. is "well behind where we need to be on testing," especially with rapid at-home tests that he called critical to helping Americans return to their everyday lives, to work and to school.

WHAT IT DOES The act gives the federal government broad authority to direct private companies to meet the needs of the national defense. Over the decades, the law’s powers have been understood to encompass not only times of war but also domestic emergency preparedness and recovery from terrorist attacks and natural disasters. The act authorizes the president to require companies to prioritize government contracts and orders seen as necessary for the national defense, with the goal of ensuring that the private sector is producing enough goods needed to meet a war effort or other national eme...

White House says it's working to speed early production of J&J COVID-19 vaccine By Dania Nadeem and Rebecca Spalding Reuters (Reuters) - The Biden administration is exploring every option for increasing manufacturing of Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, which is under regulatory review, and said on Friday that currently expected levels of early doses were less than hoped. The White House has invoked the Defense Production Act to help Pfizer Inc ramp up COVID-19 vaccine production and that "every option" was on the table to produce more Johnson & Johnson vaccine should it be authorize...