Here’s what you need to know: Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Credit…Frank Franklin Ii/Associated Press New York City has fewer than 1,000 Covid-19 doses on hand because of shipment delays caused by snowstorms across the country, the city reported on Saturday. The delays brought the city’s “entire vaccination effort” to a “standstill,” Avery Cohen, a … Read more
Power outages amid ongoing winter storms have affected more than 2,000 COVID-19 vaccination sites, slowing the pace of administering doses, U.S. health officials said Friday. More than a third of U.S. states have reported shipment delays. Government vaccine distribution partners “have all faced challenges as workers have been snowed in and unable to get to work to package and … Read more
Anthony Jackson, Safety Coordinator for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, received a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on January 19 at a new vaccination clinic on the Fred Hutch campus. (Courtesy photo by Fred Hutch / Robert Hood) With data showing racial disparities in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, a new study found … Read more
If the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccine seems messy and incomprehensible, with numbers that don’t add up and assignments that don’t make sense, you are not alone. Even people who study this for a living are at a loss. “Neither of us know what’s going on,” said Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scientist at the … Read more
COVID-19 cases in the US have decreased from a peak a few weeks ago. 83,321 new cases were reported on Saturday – the first time since November 2 that the country reported fewer than one new case every second. And on Sunday, data from Johns Hopkins University show, the pace slowed even further to 64,938 … Read more
In a boot camp that started in January, students from the University of Washington School of Nursing are training other UW students and faculties who want to help with COVID-19 vaccinations. (Photo by Kiyomi Taguchi / University of Washington) With Washington residents struggling to sign up for COVID-19 vaccinations, a volunteer team of software engineers … Read more
More than 1,000 active duty troops will begin supporting vaccination sites around the United States, starting later this month in California, White House senior COVID-19 advisor Andy Slavitt announced Friday. Slavitt said that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin OK’ed the move and troops’ mission in California would being within 10 days. The White House COVID-19 Response Team … Read more
COVID-19 has killed more than 441,000 Americans, and infections have continued to mount despite the introduction of a pair of vaccines late in 2020. USA TODAY is tracking the news. Keep refreshing this page for the latest updates. Sign up for our Coronavirus Watch newsletter for updates to your inbox, join our Facebook group or … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Passengers on a bus in Brooklyn in April. A new order looks to enforce masks on public transportation.Credit…Jonah Markowitz for The New York Times The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued an order requiring travelers in the United States to wear masks as part of a new … Read more
Another COVID-19 vaccine is about to go on sale – a single vaccine from Johnson & Johnson’s pharmaceutical subsidiary Janssen. The company just released an efficacy report based on data from its Phase 3 study that found the new vaccine to be 66% overall effective at preventing moderate to severe incarnations of COVID-19 in those … Read more