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The first distribution of Corona 19 vaccine from Pfizer, an American pharmaceutical company produced in Belgium, was loaded onto a United Airlines freighter on day 2 (local time) and unloaded at O’Hare International Airport, Illinois. / Reuters Yonhap News
The US quarantine authorities issued measures such as approval for the emergency use of Pfizer’s Corona 19 vaccine. The Corona 19 situation in the US is approaching the worst. Pfizer’s Corona 19 vaccine will arrive at 145 delivery locations in the United States beginning the morning of the 14th (local time).
According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on the 12th, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) urgently approved the use of the COVID-19 vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and the German biotechnology company Bioentech the day before. . On this day, the Vaccination Advisory Committee (ACIP), an advisory body to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), held a meeting and decided to recommend that Americans age 16 and older receive the Pfizer vaccine.
The ACIP recommendations are the procedures to be followed for a new vaccination. If CDC Director Robert Redfield accepts this recommendation and officially approves the use of the vaccine, people can get vaccinated from then on. CNN said Redfield is expected to approve the ACIP recommendations soon.
Consequently, Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccination is expected to begin as early as the morning of the 14th. The United States is the sixth country to approve Pfizer vaccines, after Great Britain, Canada, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico. US President Donald Trump said in a video broadcast via Twitter that “the first vaccination will take place within 24 hours” and “in cooperation with FedEx and UPS, we have already started shipping to all U.S”.
But the day the FDA approved the Pfizer vaccine for emergency use, another record number of new infections and deaths were recorded in the United States. According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, the number of new confirmed corona 19 cases in the United States on the 11th was 231,775, the highest since the corona 19 pandemic. The average number of new infections per day for a week was 21,764, the highest. On this day, the number of deaths per day was counted at 3309, a new high. “Even if you start vaccinating the Corona 19 vaccine, the spread currents will not change immediately,” Redfield said.
In the midst of this, New York City again banned the indoor restaurant business after 10 weeks. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo told a news conference: “Because the infection can spread in dense environments, starting on the 14th, New York City restaurants should stop eating indoors. and provide only cookouts and packing and delivery services. ” New York restaurants resumed indoor operations within the 25% capacity range in late September, six months after the Corona 19 crisis began in earnest.
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