The Executive Secretary of the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Dr. “This is truly an incredible feat,” Amanda Koh said during a committee meeting on Sunday. “We hope they will continue to increase production, as well as potentially get new products early next year.”
But when the U.S. As more and more people wait for the vaccine to be delivered, they will have to contend with a possible surge in winter holidays.
More than a million Americans passed through airport security checkpoints on both Friday and Saturday – the first since the epidemic began. There has been an increase in cases after Thanksgiving travel and reunions, and experts warn that repeating the behavior over Christmas could result in an increase on any boom.
That second surge can’t sustain Tennessee, Gov. Bill Lee said Sunday.
“Tennessees have two weapons they must use in the next 30 days: just gather around your house and wear a mask,” Lee said.
Illinois is close to 1 million cases
In an unprecedented coronavirus outbreak, three states have crossed the threshold of more than a million cases: California, Texas and Florida.
On Sunday, Illinois took a step to join the list when the epidemic surpassed 900,000 cases, the state public health department said in a news release.
New York, once the U.S. Became the epicenter of the epidemic, they hope to reduce the increase in themselves. Long-term care facilities in the state will begin receiving the vaccine from Monday, Gareth Rhodes, special adviser to the state’s financial services department, said during a press briefing on Friday.
In the state, 618 long-term care facilities staff with CVS and valgrens have registered to vaccinate residents and employees, Rhodes said.
New Jersey will administer its nursing home vaccinations on Dec. 28, New Jersey Health Commissioner Judy Persichili said after state officials missed the federal deadline to register their facilities.
“Starting on the 21st, all the registered skilled nursing facilities, long-term care facilities, supportive living facilities, of which we have more than 650, had a deadline of 7th for input. We missed that date, by one day.” That said, citing the amount of information needed to input.
Sloe believes the vaccine will be effective even after virus differentiation
While clinical trials in both the Pfizer / Bioentech vaccine and the Moderna vaccine have shown an efficacy rate of around 95%, there is growing concern about whether the vaccine will work in new strains of the coronavirus – such as those spread across the UK
Top health officials say there is still a lot they don’t know about this type, and to reduce its spread A growing list of countries has blocked travel from the UK, including Canada, Argentina, Israel, Germany and France.
Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research are investigating the variety and expect to know in the next few days if there is concern that the vaccine may not work against it.
But “so far, I don’t think there has been a single type that will be resistant to the vaccine,” Sloy said sadly. “We can’t exclude him, but he’s not there anymore.”
He said the novel may be prone to coronavirus diversity. But critical aspects of the virus, such as the spike protein contained in the vaccine, are very specific to the novel coronavirus and are unlikely to change further.
“Because the vaccine is using antibodies against many different parts of the spike protein, I think it’s unlikely that all of them will change,” Sloy said.
Improvement: An earlier version and headline of this story misrepresented Health Secretary Admiral Brett Giroir’s comments about vaccine distribution. Health officials are working to get enough doses to be delivered to 20 million people by the first week of January. He did not promise that 20 million people would be inoculated by that time.
CNN’s Virginia Langmed, King Rajak, Pete Muntean, Jacqueline Howard, Melissa Alonso, Holly Silverman, Naomi Th Thomas and Gisela Crespo contributed to the report.
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