The U.S. vaccination program is expected to be boosted by the end of March as manufacturers ramp up production to nearly three times the yield achieved in February, raising hopes that the country move faster to get jaban into arms and avoid the spike in triggered cases. with new changes in Europe and elsewhere.
The U.S. is expected to make 132 million vaccine doses in March, compared to 48 million in February, according to estimates from Evercore analysts. That’s after companies, with the help of the federal government, were able to increase production and scale production by taking steps such as making some raw materials themselves, as The Wall Street reported. Journal.
Pfizer Inc. PFE,
for example, has begun recycling specific filters required for the manufacturing process, while Moderna Inc. MRNA,
has shortened the time to inspect and package new filters, the paper said. The government has helped companies access procurement using the Defense Production Act, providing $ 105 million in funding to Merck & Co. Help MRK,
do the Johnson and Johnson JNJ,
vaccine in a contract violated by Biden administration.
There was good news about the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca PLC AZN,
AZN,
and Oxford University, in the form of a U.S. clinical trial involving more than 32,000 people found to be safe and 79% effective in preventing symbolic disease.
AstraZeneca said it would continue to analyze the data and prepare its application for emergency approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a move that, if adopted, would be the fourth injection into existing programs. already the Pfizer, Moderna and J&J ones, as the Journal reported.
The news comes after several countries temporarily stopped using AstraZeneca injection due to severe bleeding in a very small number of patients in Europe who received the bullet. U.S. tests did not identify an increased risk of severe bleeding. European and UK medical regulators had already backed the picture and said the clotting cases had not been proven to be linked.
Raymond James analyst Chris Meekins said there is a race going on, between vaccines and changes.
“As we warned months ago, some variants of the virus are concerned,” Meekins wrote in a note to Monday in a statement. “While our nationwide case, hospital and death records remain encouraging, warning signs from new changes in Michigan and New York are being monitored. Other countries that are slowing down the U.S. on vaccines, will experience a huge increase due to various strains. “
The global number of COVID cases rose for the second straight week, reaching an average of 459,000, a six – week high, Meekins said. Brazil, which is struggling with the highly contagious P1 difference, added the same number of cases to the U.S. and India combined, and the counting of cumulative cases made up India are number 2 worldwide.
“Europe’s situation has also declined: from France in the West to Ukraine in the East, there is a third wave,” he wrote.
Germany and France are extending locks, while Brazil is urging local authorities to give the first injection to more people, instead of storing doses for the second injection .
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccine administrator indicates that 156.7 million doses were given to states from 6 a.m. ET Sunday, 124.5 million doses were given and 81.4 million people received at least one dose, equivalent to 24.5% of the population. A total of 44.1 million Americans had received two doses, equivalent to 13.3% of the population.
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The U.S. filed at least 34,217 new cases on Sunday, according to a New York Times regulator, and at least 444 died. These numbers can be pre-recorded with fewer staff in hospitals on weekends. The U.S. has averaged 54,404 cases per day in the past week, down 7% from two weeks ago.
The U.S. continues to lead the world with cases, at nearly 30 million, or about a fifth of the world, and deaths at 542,359, or about a quarter of the global number.
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In other news:
• Miami Beach officials warned Sunday that the unruly spring crowd is gathering by the thousands, fighting on the streets, destroying restaurant property and refusing to wear masks. a major threat to public safety, the Associated Press reported. After more than 1,000 arrests over the weekend, officials voted to extend an extraordinary 8pm curfew for the famous South Beach, with a chance to be extended well in April if needed, and stressed that this is not the usual population in the spring. . They said they are not college students, but adults looking to release in one of the few fully open states during the pandemic. Local officials have been struggling to enforce COVID orders. Florida has no state mask rules, capacity limits or other such restrictions, courtesy of Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis.
NIAID Director Anthony Fauci says it is dangerous to pull back on public health measures, as things could go on and then go back, as they did in Europe.
• Kent Taylor, founder and CEO of the Texas Roadhouse restaurant series, has died at the age of 65. His family and company say he took his own life after suffering from COVID-19-related symptoms, including severe tinnitus, the AP reported. Taylor’s family and company confirmed Sunday that he died in a statement. Tinnitus is a common condition that involves ringing or other sounds in one or both ears. Experts say the coronavirus can make tinnitus complications worse. “Kent fought and fought hard like the old champion, but the suffering that has grown so much in the last few days has become unattainable,” the statement said. .
• Shares of UK-listed airlines on Monday worry that there will be a third wave of COVID-19 cases that could delay summer holidays, Steve Goldstein told MarketWatch. International Airlines IAG Group,
easyJet EZJ,
TUI TUI,
Wizz Air WIZZ,
and Ryanair RYA,
fell between 3% and 6% after scientific advisers urged UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to lift a ban on foreign holidays. The news comes as Germany was ready to extend closure and the European Union has been struggling in its immunization campaign and is now considering exporting AstraZeneca vaccines. into the UK
• Moderna has agreed to give the Philippines an additional seven million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, Tomi Kilgore told MarketWatch. That brings the total number of doses the Philippines has received from Moderna to 20 million, including the previously announced supply agreement of 13 million doses, in which delivery would begin in the middle 2021. Moderna said its vaccine is not currently approved for use in the Philippines, so they will work with regulators to seek approval before the doses are released.
• More than 6,000 people, mostly unregistered, took part in an illegal street party in the French city of Marseille over the weekend, in what was described as a breach of the rules. ” inappropriate ”, AFP said. Marseille was not among the 16 different regions that entered a new lock on Saturday, with its current workforce lower than national hotspots such as the city of Nice near the Mediterranean coast the capital or capital of the country. “It is completely impossible at a time when we are all making efforts, changing and organizing ourselves to respect the various rules to fight the pandemic,” said one. Interior ministry Camille Chaize spoke to Franceinfo radio on Monday. Nine people were arrested and dozens were fined, she said.
Web browser alerts and tools can help you schedule a Covid-19 vaccination meeting. Joanna Stern at WSJ met with Kris Slevens, an IT man who has organized more than 300 meetings for seniors in New Jersey, to learn the best tricks to compete in the Hunger Games that vaccine retention. Photo: Emil Lendof for The Wall Street Journal
The latest tallies
The global number of COVID-19 cases rose above 123 million Monday, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, while the death toll rose to 2.71 million.
Nearly 70 million people have accessed COVID, the data show.
Brazil has the second highest death tax after the US at 294,042 and the second highest case at 11.9 million.
India is in third place with 11.6 million cases and fourth with 159,967 deaths.
Mexico has 198,036 deaths, or the third highest in the world, and the 13th highest by far.
The UK has 4.3 million cases and 126,393 deaths, the highest in Europe and the fifth highest in the world.
China, where the virus was discovered last year at the end of last year, has confirmed 101,533 cases and 4,839 deaths, according to its official figures.