Tag: pandemic

Vaccine supply issues continued to plague California on Tuesday even as other indicators about the spread of the coronavirus showed what the top health official called “rays of hope” amid the deadliest days of the pandemic. San Francisco’s public health department said its likely to run out of vaccine Thursday, in part because the state pulled back on administering a batch of Moderna shots after several health workers in San Diego had a bad reaction.

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) researchers and Veteran volunteers from the Atlanta and San Antonio VA medical centers were part of a recently published study that yielded crucial insights into COVID-19 treatment.

It looks like the COVID-19 vaccine distribution is becoming an unfair, chaotic mess. In New York City, where I live, it is at this moment a train wreck, with many of my fellow New Yorkers venting about the hassle and roadblocks that government officials have put in their way. The goal of herd immunity with 70% or 80% of the country’s population inoculated seems like a distant goal, a failure made all the more unbearable by a nationwide death count on the cusp of 400,000.

Coronavirus deaths are rising in nearly two-thirds of American states as a winter surge pushes the overall toll toward 400,000 amid warnings that a new, highly contagious variant is taking hold.

California on Monday became the first state to record more than 3 million known coronavirus infections. The grim milestone, as tallied by Johns Hopkins University, wasn’t entirely unexpected in a state with 40 million residents but its speed stunning. The state only reached 2 million reported cases on Dec. 24.