Top U.S. infectious disease official Anthony Fauci on Feb. 23 told CNN that he expects the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to soon relax some Covid-19 recommendations aimed at curbing its spread for people who have been vaccinated.
Deaths from Covid-19 in the United States fell for a third straight week during the week ended Feb. 21, as cases and hospitalizations showed steep drops.
As Operation Warp Speed – the Trump administration’s program to develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine – struggles to ramp up vaccinations, one of the approaches under consideration is cutting the doses of the Moderna vaccine.
The United States is monitoring the new strain of Covid-19 emerging in the United Kingdom, with U.S. officials unclear whether the mutated variant had made its way to America.
U.S. inches closer to vaccine approval, economic relief as pandemic rages on
BioNTech, CNN, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, Coronavirus Vaccines, Democrats, Emergency Use Authorization, FDA, Health Canada, National Health Service (NHS), Pfizer, Republicans, United States, World Health OrganizationEconomic relief and a vaccine drew nearer to reality to counter a coronavirus pandemic that has ravaged the U.S. economy and killed 286,487 people with year-end holiday gatherings expected to fuel another surge in infections.
San Francisco mayor orders strict new lockdowns as pandemic spirals
Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, CNN, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, COVID-19 cases, COVID-19 Deaths, COVID-19 Lockdown Measures, COVID-19 Vaccines, Donald Trump, Donald Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci (Director), FDA Commissioner, Gavin Newsom (Calif.), George W. Bush, Joe Biden, Moderna, Pfizer, Reuters Tally, San Francisco, University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), White House coronavirus task forceThe mayor of San Francisco ordered new lockdowns and business restrictions across the Bay Area in the face of the Covid-19 surge, as political leaders nationwide ramp up pressure on Americans to stay home until vaccines can be distributed.
As U.S. Covid-19 deaths shatter records, leaders plead for more mask-wearing
CNN, Coronavirus Vaccines, COVID-19 Deaths, Death Tolls, Donald Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci (Director), FDA Commissioner, Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients, Joe Biden, Masks, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Reuters Tally, University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)U.S. leaders urgently called on Americans to wear masks and threatened even more drastic stay-at-home orders after deaths from the coronavirus set a single-day record, with two people dying every minute.
‘COVID chat’: Officials urge Americans to stay home over holiday
Antibody Therapeutics, California, CNN, Coronavirus Cases, COVID-19 Deaths, Death Tolls, Doctors, Fox News Channel, Government data, Health Officials, Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients, Hospitals, Midwest, Politics, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Surgeon general, Texas, Thanksgiving, Travelers, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. government, United StatesU.S. health officials and politicians pleaded with Americans to stay at home over the Thanksgiving holiday and abide by constraints placed on social and economic life as record coronavirus caseloads pushed hospitals to their limits.
U.S. COVID deaths top 250,000 as New York City schools halt in-person classes
Boston, CNN, Coronavirus, COVID-19 cases, COVID-19 Infections, D.C., Death Tolls, Detroit, Epidemics, Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients, Mayor Bill de Blasio, Midwest, New York City, Politics, Public Schools, Schools, Social Distancing, Tim Walz (Minnesota), U.S. government, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnanyThe U.S. death toll from Covid-19 surpassed a grim new milestone of 250,000 lives lost as New York City’s public school system – the nation’s largest – called a halt to in-classroom instruction, citing a jump in coronavirus infection rates.
Task force sees ‘unrelenting’ Covid-19 spread; daily U.S. cases up by record 91,000
Arizona, CNN, Donald Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci (Director), Elections, Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients, Joe Biden, Midwest, Mike DeWine (Ohio), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), Temperature, Utah, West, White House coronavirus task forceThe White House coronavirus task force warned that much of the country is in the grips of an “unrelenting” surge in Covid-19 cases and urged tough countermeasures, as the reported number of U.S. infections hit a new daily record of more than 91,000.