U.S. vaccinations exceed 50 million
UK Health Minister believes Covid will be something people can “live with” by the end of the year
Patty Castillo, 46, receives a coronavirus vaccine on Saturday at a workers’ access center in the port of Long Beach, California. (Photo by Reuters)
The United States has administered more than 50 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine in the two months following the start of the firing, according to data updated Saturday.
The 50.1 million shots given in the U.S. represent 30 percent of the 168 million doses administered in 77 countries so far, according to the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker.
In the UK, which along with the United States has advanced further in vaccinations among major economies, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said he hoped coronavirus would become a treatable disease that people could “live with. , how we get the flu “. at the end of the year.
He made the comment in an interview with Daily Telegraph, who reported that the British government was preparing to give details on new drugs that will be followed up quickly through the clinical trial system.
Meanwhile, Oxford University will begin testing the Covid vaccine it developed with AstraZeneca in children, another potentially key step in ending the global pandemic.
The Oxford trial is scheduled to enroll 300 children aged 6 to 17, the university said on Saturday. The first vaccines will be given this month, with up to 240 children receiving the coronavirus vaccine and the rest a meningitis vaccine, which should produce similar side effects. AstraZeneca is expected to conduct a larger trial with thousands of children in the United States later.
In the United States, 36.8 million people have now received at least one dose of vaccine and of that 12.8 million have been completely vaccinated with a second vaccine.
According to Bloomberg, more than 1.7 million doses a day are being administered in the U.S., according to an average of seven days.
In a related development, President Joe Biden has ruled out requiring coronavirus testing for all flight passengers for now, saying scientific evidence does not support the implementation of the measure.
A White House statement said the Centers for Disease Control did not recommend such tests and Biden would follow suit.