December is the deadliest month for the coronavirus since the pandemic began, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The United States has reported more than 63,000 deaths so far this month. April was previously the deadliest month of the pandemic, with more than 55,000 deaths. According to the COVID follow-up project, deaths exceeded that number by just three weeks in December as temperatures dropped, people gathered for the holidays and cases increased.
According to the latest data from Johns Hopkins, the United States has reported more than 19 million cases of coronavirus and more than 330,000 deaths caused by COVID-19.
President-elect Joe Biden
Joe Biden: Councilor Biden’s brother Ricchetti, who is employed as a lobbyist at Amazon Sunday, states: the provisions of COVID-19 await Trump’s signature; Government continues to run vaccines Global COVID-19 cases exceed 80 million MORE warned last week that the pandemic would worsen before it improved, even with the arrival of vaccines, and warned Americans to be vigilant.
“I will tell you the truth. Here is the simple truth: our darkest days in the fight against COVID are ahead of us, not behind us,” Biden told a news conference on Tuesday.
“As frustrating as it is to hear, it will take patience, persistence and determination to defeat this virus. There will be no time to waste in taking the steps we need to turn this crisis around,” he added.
Anthony Fauci
Anthony FauciSunday shows preview: COVID-19 relief awaiting Trump’s signature; The government continues to launch the Serenada Fauci vaccine, the first to respond, with “many years” AIDS activists recruit Barbra Streisand for Fauci’s surprise party on Zoom MORE, the nations’ top expert on infectious diseases, agreed on Sunday with that assessment, warning the US it could see the worst pandemic in the coming weeks.
“As we move from late fall to early winter, the numbers are really worrying,” Fauci said.
“With more than 120,000 hospitalizations, we are indeed at a critical stage,” he added.
Two vaccines – produced by Pfizer and Moderna – have been approved for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), with just over 1 million people vaccinated so far. It appears that more than 9 million doses of vaccine have been sent.
The federal government had planned to vaccinate about 20 million by the end of the year, but that goal now seems out of reach.
In late November, when news of the approval of the coronavirus vaccine was on the horizon, former NATO commander James Stavridis wrote in an article published in Fortune magazine that changes had to be made to the government’s plan to distribute the vaccine.
Stavridis disputed that only one company, McKesson, had been commissioned to distribute COVID-19 vaccines. He said the government needs more companies to protect itself from the possibility of failure in its distribution plan.
But even with promising developments, such as the vaccine, new challenges continue to arise. A new, more contagious strain of coronavirus has been detected in the UK and South Africa, prompting many nations to limit or ban travel to and from those countries. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued a requirement for air travelers in the UK to provide a negative coronavirus test when traveling to the US
On Sunday, former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said in an interview with CBS “Face the Nation” that the new strain is probably already in the United States. He suspected that more people had been vaccinated than reported due to a gap in data collection.
“But the idea that we will reach 20 million vaccines, vaccinations, by the end of the year, is probably unrealistic at the moment,” Gottlieb said.
However, Gottlieb predicted that once the vaccine is made available through pharmacy chains such as Walgreens and CVS, it will be made significant in the distribution of the vaccine.
The order in which people receive the vaccine has been left to the discretion of state governments to decide. Many state governments are still struggling with how they will determine order. Governor of Ohio Mike DeWine
Mike DeWineSunday shows preview: COVID-19 relief awaiting Trump’s signature; The government continues to launch the vaccine DeWine says Ohio teachers and school staff will be the next group to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. (R) recently announced that teachers and school staff will be next in line to receive the vaccine.