OPINION: Despite problems, America's vaccine rollout has been among the best in the world

America’s much-maligned vaccine rollout is actually going relatively well, at least compared to other wealthy countries.

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Employer incentives COVID-19 vaccinations could prompt legal issues

Concerns about some states facing shortages of people to administer vaccinations

Beating back Covid-19 right now comes down to balancing supply and demand. With hopes pinned to vaccines, demand has far outstripped the supply of doses.

But, as an increasing number of vaccine vials are shipped in coming weeks, the concern about shortages may well shift to human capital: the vaccinators themselves.

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The Ripple Effect as U.S. Covid Deaths Approach 500,000

CHICAGO — A nation numbed by misery and loss is confronting a number that still has the power to shock: 500,000.

Roughly one year since the first known death by the coronavirus in the United States, an unfathomable toll is nearing — the loss of half a million people.

No other country has counted so many deaths in the pandemic. More Americans have perished from Covid-19 than on the battlefields of World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War combined.

The milestone comes at a hopeful moment: New virus cases are down sharply, deaths are slowing and vaccines are steadily being administered.

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Although US Covid-19 numbers may be slowing experts project tens of thousands more deaths in next 3 months

Study indicates a Third of COVID survivors have long term symptoms

(HealthDay News) -- Many patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 could become "long haulers," suffering symptoms months after they clear their non-life-threatening infection, new research shows.

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Texas power blackouts illustrate weakeness of U.s. infracstructuret

Even as Texas struggled to restore electricity and water over the past week, signs of the risks posed by increasingly extreme weather to America’s aging infrastructure were cropping up across the country.

The week’s continent-spanning winter storms triggered blackouts in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi and several other states. One-third of oil production in the nation was halted. Drinking-water systems in Ohio were knocked offline. Road networks nationwide were paralyzed and vaccination efforts in 20 states were disrupted.

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Florida governor DeSantis reverses course, accepts FEMA vaccination sites in minority areas

TALLAHASSEE — Florida is getting four federally-backed Covid-19 vaccination hubs in largely low-income communities of color, an announcement that comes after Gov. Ron DeSantis initially clashed with the Biden administration over federal vaccine help.

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A guide to the coronavirus vaccination rollout

Since Dec. 14, 2020, when an intensive care nurse in New York became the first American to receive an injection of a COVID-19 vaccine, the U.S. has allotted 55.6 million initial doses of two cutting-edge inoculations, from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna, that represent the greatest hope for closure to a pandemic that has claimed 2 million lives worldwide, including nearly 496,000 Americans—by far the largest toll of any nation.

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U.S. Covid-19 hospitalizations drop to lowest level since November

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Covid-19 hospitalizations in the US dip to lowest level since November

(CNN) Covid-19 hospitalizations in the US are at the lowest level since early November, when a fall surge in cases and deaths was picking up steam, data showed Saturday.

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Coronavirus variants are like 'tidal waves' once they fully arrive

Studies suggest that persons who had Covid should get single vaccine does

Nearly 30 million people in the United States — and probably many others whose illnesses were never diagnosed — have been infected with the coronavirus so far. Should these people still be vaccinated?

Two new studies answer that question with an emphatic yes.

In fact, the research suggests that for these people just one dose of the vaccine is enough to turbocharge their antibodies and destroy the coronavirus — and even some more infectious variants.

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The Texas power grid failure: fragility and attitudes

Explanation of how have storms affected shipments of COVID-19 vaccinations

NEW YORK (AP) — Efforts to vaccinate Americans against COVID-19 have been stymied by a series of winter storms and outages that have hobbled transportation hubs and highways in parts of the country not used to extreme cold weather.

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Winter storms delay six million COVID-19 vaccine doses -_White House

The White House said Friday that winter storms have caused a backlog of 6 million COVID-19 vaccine doses, about three days worth of shipments, but they expect to clear the backlog within a week.

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