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The U.S. could soon be giving at least a million COVID-19 vaccinations a day. This would be a major shift from the current speed which has been described as a sluggish start. Dr. Anthony Fauci warned of a dangerous next few weeks as the coronavirus surges. The slow pace is frustrating health officials and a desperate public alike, says HuffPost. Only about a third of the first supplies shipped to states have been used as of Tuesday morning. This is just over three weeks into the vaccination campaign.
The Transportation Security Administration screened 1,284,599 people in airports nationwide on Sunday. That is the most since the COVID-19 pandemic's start, says Business Insider. Sunday was also the sixth day in the last 10 that the TSA screened more than 1 million travelers. More than 63,000 Americans died of COVID-19 in December. December 2020 is now the deadliest month of the pandemic. Anthony Fauci said the pandemic will most likely get worse over the next few weeks due to high holiday travel.
Dr. Anthony Fauci had previously said it could take up to 90% of the US population to get vaccinated to reach herd immunity against the coronavirus. But on Sunday, he clarified his 'guesstimate' downwards to 70 to 85% of the population. Business Insider reports Fauci admitted on CNN's 'State of the Union' that 'we all have to be honest and humble, nobody really knows for sure.' This month, the US Food and Drug Administration authorized both Moderna and Pfizer and BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine for emergency use. Healthcare professionals and frontline workers across the country have been getting vaccinations since the vaccine rollouts.
On Wednesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters how long he thinks it will take for the COVID vaccine to make a difference. Cuomo says it will take between six and nine months for the coronavirus vaccine to get widespread enough to make a difference. "It's a foot race over a six to nine month period," Cuomo said of the vaccine. According to Business Insider Dr. Anthony Fauci said "close to 80, 85%" of the public needs to get vaccinated before life returns to some semblance of normal."
U.S. President Barack Obama attends an outdoor arrival ceremony in heavy rain, as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Laos. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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