“No excuses – we’re not where we want to be, but hopefully we’ll pick up the pace and get back to where we want to be in terms of getting into people’s hands,” said Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday.
The pace is picking up with about 1.5 million doses carried in 72 hours, F.C. said. That means vaccination speeds are actually better than the numbers suggested at first glance, he added.
Monsef Sloui, chief adviser on Operation Operation Worm Speed, told CBS’s Margaret Brennan on Sunday that 17.5 million doses had been sent and that the US federal government was hopeful they would be administered more quickly.
As people from many countries travel during the holidays, it is important to “be patient and keep going” when trying to prevent the spread, said Elizabeth Cohen, senior medical correspondent at CNN, WHO’s technical lead for coronavirus response.
“We’ll start a little early in 2021,” said Van Kerkhov.
Covid-19 grows in the states
Acute cases in many states have resulted in hospitals struggling to meet the demand for treatment of coronavirus patients.
In Los Angeles County, one person is infected with the virus every six seconds, Mayor Eric Garcetti told CBS’s Face the Nation, thanks to the density of population and household spread.
More than 45,000 new cases were reported in California on Sunday as the state’s hospital admissions rate reached its highest level since the onset of the epidemic, with 21,510 people currently being treated in hospitals, according to the state health department’s dashboard.
In Arizona, the state recorded its highest number of daily cases on Sunday, with more than 17,000. There are currently 1,081 patients in the ICU with Covid-19, while a total of 777 patients are hospitalized.
South Carolina recorded a coronavirus positivity rate of 29.6% on Sunday, as its hospitals in 46 counties in the state are reported to have 100% capacity, South Carolina said in a report from the Department of Health and Environmental Control.
“No one runs away from the numbers,” Fawcett told ABC. “It’s something we’ve totally grasped and got around our hands and turned that attraction down by adhering very closely to public health measures, even with the exception of the country.”
The US Surgeon General says, ‘What we do now is important
Kerkhov said people facing coronavirus growth in the U.S. and other countries find something like normal in the summer or fall.
But measures such as testing, isolation, contact tracing and isolation have brought a sense of normalcy to other countries, he said.
“We have seen countries bring the virus to its knees without vaccination,” he said. “We really have the tools at hand right now to control this virus.”
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Jerome Adams urged Americans, especially those who gathered during the holidays, to self-quarantine, to test, to wear masks, to wash their hands, and to observe their distance.
“The speculation is pretty scary, but it’s speculation and what we do now is important,” Adams told CNN’s Jack Tapper. “I want people to understand that if we overcome this current boom, then things will start to get better, but it depends on the steps we take at the moment.”
Adam’s wife Lacey was hospitalized with difficulties in treating cancer. He said he couldn’t see her because of Kovid-19.
“I want people to understand that if you don’t take precautions against Covid because you don’t feel threatened, it can affect you, your family, your community in a lot of ways.” “I, as the Surgeon General of the United States, would have left my wife at the front door and not seen her being admitted to the hospital, would not have been able to visit her, would not have known if she was there or not?” “
CNN’s Naomi Thomas, Virginia Langmade, K. Jones, Gregory Lemos and Elizabeth Cohen contributed to this report.
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