January Marks deadliest Month in US for Coronavirus

January before its end has become the worst month for the United States Coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic in the country. As of 26th January, there America faced over seventy-nine thousand mortalities, beating the previous record set in December by over a thousand, according to the statistics from Johns Hopkins University. Moreover, the grim milestone of the cases and fatalities underpins the rising demand from country officials for more COVID-19 vaccines so that the nationals are vaccinated more quickly.

According to an authentic source familiar with the call, Jeff Zients, the coronavirus coordinator of President Joe Biden, told governors on Tuesday that allocations would upsurge by almost sixteen percent starting next week. The president pushed for a hundred million vaccination shots in his initial hundred days of his presidency, but he also urged Americans to mask-wearing for those hundred days.

Biden announced that the federal government would acquire and distribute more COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer and Moderna. Moreover, he adds that it is going to take some months before the vaccination of the majority of Americans. In the coming few months, face masks, not vaccines, are the best defense again the virus. With those additional doses of the vaccines, Biden said that those would enough to fully vaccinate around three hundred million Americans – almost the United States population – by early fall or the end of summer.

According to the statistics of the United States CDC department, the first case of Brazil’s COVID-19 variant was reported in America in Minnesota earlier this week. Likewise, the U.K. variant now detected in more than twenty U.S. states. America recorded over 25.5 million coronavirus cases, with more than 427000 deaths as of 27th January.

Supply of the coronavirus vaccines not meeting demand

Struggling after almost one year of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, the states are willing to administer vaccines rapidly and tried to return to life as normal. Tate Reeves, the Governor of Mississippi, said that the nation needs to defeat the pandemic. Mississippians buried their loved ones who contracted the virus and done with the stressed hospitals. His administration is ready for the community again. Furthermore, he proudly announced to deliver around two lack vaccines statewide.

The director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Nirav Shah, said that he felt too much encouragement by the Biden administration’s approach to vaccinations. However, the state is still struggling with the shortage of vaccines. Jared Polis, the Governor of Colorado, said his discussions with the new president’s administration made him feel hopeful about the future planning of vaccine distribution. But they can’t count on extra supply yet.

Even if the federal administration delivers on the sixteen percent increase in allocations promised, it won’t be enough, Andrew Cuomo, the New York Governor, told MSNBC’s, Nicolle Wallace. Cuomo adds that they are functionally out. His administration starts to receive a new allocation of the vaccination over the next few days.

Coronavirus Variants stoke more vaccination demand and fear

The spread of variants of the COVID-19 adds fears to the public. The Governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, announced on Tuesday that two cases of the variant confirmed in the state – the variant that initially identified in the United Kingdom. According to the modeling of CDC, the variant observed to spread quickly. Whereas, a report of the U.K. states that there is a genuine possibility that a new variant of the virus has a higher death rate than its other variants.

According to the Los Angeles County public health director, Barbara Ferrer, the threat of variants once again heavily concerned the California state about its reopening, a recent epicenter of the outbreak in the United States. She adds while noting that asymptomatic spread is a problem, this will not be the time to think just because her administration is not looking for reopening because things are going rosy. The state needs to move through the next few weeks with caution.

Albert Bourla, the Pfizer CEO, tried to calm fears about the variants with the assurance that they are ready to fight them with their groundwork. People shouldn’t need to worry, but they need to prepare for that. Further, he adds that once they discover something that is not as effective, but they will quickly produce a booster dose of the vaccine that will be a small variation to the current one.

Safety about School reopening

A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that it is possible to open K to 12 schools for in-person learning with negligible coronavirus transmission with the right and impressive mitigation strategies. Those mitigation strategies of the government include social distancing, wearing face masks, and limiting time in mutual outdoor spaces, according to the CDC’s Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report.

Mike DeWine, the Governor of Ohio, says that he aims to have anybody who works in a school receive their initial vaccination dose in February at the very least in hopes of allowing all students to attend in-person classes by 1st March. At present, people older than seventy-five and those with some specific medical conditions are eligible to receive coronavirus vaccines. On 1st February, those seventy and older and employees of K-12 schools will able to receive the vaccine, he adds during a news conference.

Schools reopening is the main priority for several officials. Whereas students all over the country spent many months learning remotely. So, the local leaders approached the return of the students in different ways. Of the twenty largest school districts in the United States, nine are currently all online educating students, eight of them offer a choice of either full in-person or all online, two districts have a mixture plan, and one in Hawaii varies plans depends on infection rates among different islands.

On the other hand, daily cases and hospitalizations across the country are down, while concerns about the new COVID-19 variants (that are more transmissible) are growing. Whereas vaccine companies have confidence that their shots will be effective against the mutations. However, Moderna announced to work on a booster shot for the virus variant first found in South Africa.

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