US coronavirus news: More than 4.2 million coronavirus vaccines have been given and experts believe the US should go faster

“No excuses – we are not where we want to be, but hopefully we will gain some momentum and return to where we want to be to get it into people’s arms,” ​​said dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on NBC’s Meet The Press on Sunday.

More than 4.2 million people have received the first dose of coronavirus vaccines since Saturday morning, and 13 million doses have been distributed, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Covid Data Tracker said. The federal government has repeatedly promised that 20 million people would receive their first shots by the end of the year.

But the rate is increasing, with about 1.5 million doses being administered within 72 hours, Fauci said. This means that the speed of vaccinations is actually better than the numbers suggest at first glance, he added.

Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser to Operation Warp Speed, told Margaret Brennan, CBS, on Sunday that 17.5 million doses had been sent and that the US federal government was optimistic that they would be administered faster.

Vaccinations are currently going to health workers and patients for long-term care, but ultimately officials are hoping to spread them among the wider public. While awaiting vaccinations, the U.S. reported more than 100,000 coronavirus hospitalizations in 33 consecutive days, with the highest number on Sunday at 125,544, according to the Covid tracking project.

With people in many countries traveling during the holidays, it is important to ‘keep patience and keep the course’ when it comes to preventing spread, said Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO’s technical leader for the response to coronavirus, told CNN’s senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.

“We’re starting a bit of a rough start until 2021,” Van Kerkhove said.

Covid-19 rises across countries

In many countries, cases of emergencies have led hospitals to struggle to meet the demand of coronavirus patients.

In Los Angeles County, one person gets the virus every six seconds, Mayor Eric Garcetti told CBS’s Face the Nation. The distribution is attributed to the density of the population and household distribution.

California reports more than 45,000 new cases of coronavirus as the increase continues into the new year

More than 45,000 new cases were reported in California on Sunday when the state’s hospitalization rate was the highest since the start of the pandemic, with 21,510 people currently being treated in hospitals, the Department of Health’s dashboard shows.

In Arizona, the state on Sunday reported its highest daily total of cases with more than 17,000. There are currently 1081 patients with Covid-19 in the ICU, while 4557 patients are admitted to the hospital.

South Carolina on Sunday reported a coronavirus positivity rate of 29.6%, as four of the 46 counties in the state reported that their hospitals had 100% capacity, according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control.

“There is no flight of numbers,” Fauci told ABC. “This is something we absolutely must embrace and embrace to turn the tide by intensifying adherence to public health measures, uniformly across the country, without exception.”

“What we do now is important,” said the U.S. Surgeon-General.

There is hope that the U.S. and other countries experiencing coronavirus outbreaks may return to something that looks normal again in the summer or fall, Kerkhove said.

But measures such as testing, isolation, contact detection and quarantine have already brought the sense of normality to other countries, she said.

'It's about a total collapse of the health care system if we have another rise' by Covid-19

“We have seen countries bring this virus to its knees, without vaccination,” she said. “We currently have the tools at hand to actually bring this virus under control.”

The American Surgeon-General, dr. Jerome Adams, urged Americans, especially those who gathered during the holidays, to do self-quarantine, get tested, wear a mask, wash their hands and keep an eye on their distance.

“The projections are pretty narrow, but those are projections, and what we’re doing now is important,” Adams told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “I want people to understand that if we overcome this current boom, things will start to get better, but it depends on the actions we are all taking now.”

Adam’s wife, Lacey, was admitted to hospital due to complications from her cancer treatment. He said he could not see her because of Covid-19.

“I want people to understand that if you do not take precautions against Covid because you are not in danger, it could affect you, your family, your community in so many other ways,” he said. ‘I, as the surgeon of the United States, had to drop my wife off at the front door and could not see that she was going to the hospital, and could not visit her, and did not know if she was going to have a hospital bed. due to all the Covid precautions. ‘

CNN’s Naomi Thomas, Virginia Langmaid, Kay Jones, Gregory Lemos and Elizabeth Cohen contributed to this report.

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