US Vaccinations Ramp Up As Feds Weigh 2nd COVID-19 Shot
Packed in dry ice to stay at ultra-frozen temperatures, shipments of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine are set to arrive at 400 additional hospitals and other distribution sites, one day after the nation’s death toll surpassed a staggering 300,000. The first 3 million shots are being strictly rationed to front-line health workers and elder-care patients, with hundreds of millions more shots needed over the coming months to protect most Americans.
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A second vaccine can’t come soon enough as the country’s daily death count continues to top 2,400 amid over 210,000 new daily cases, based on weekly averages of data compiled by
The first vaccine deliveries have provided a measure of encouragement to exhausted doctors, nurses and hospital staffers around the country.
“Just to be a part of it is a good feeling,’’ he said.
Since March, he’s transported critically ill COVID-19 patients by jet from smaller hospitals around the state to the university medical center. It’s up-close-and-personal work that requires him to adjust ventilator settings and administer infusions to keep blood pressure from plummeting.
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“This is 20,000 doses of hope,” said
Because the vaccine requires two rounds, the people getting injections now will need a second shot in about three weeks.
Vaccinations were also expected to kick off Tuesday in
Following another initial set of deliveries Wednesday, officials with the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed in
“We’re starting our drumbeat of continuous execution of vaccine as it is available,” Army Gen.
Shots for nursing home residents won’t begin in most states until next Monday, when some 1,100 facilities are set to begin vaccinations.
Perna and other
That projection assumes swift authorization of the vaccine up for review this week, co-developed by
Last month,
Both Moderna’s and Pfizer-BioNTech's shots are so-called mRNA vaccines, a brand-new technology. They aren’t made with the coronavirus itself, meaning there’s no chance anyone could catch it from the shots. Instead, the vaccine contains a piece of genetic code that trains the immune system to recognize the spiked protein on the surface of the virus.
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