The United States set a single-day record of 3,580 deaths from new crowns on Wednesday. Another new crown vaccine, which will soon be approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has 5.9 million doses ready for shipment on Thursday.
As the death toll hit a record on Wednesday, the U.S. hospitalization rate also rose for the 19th consecutive day, increasing the approval of the regulatory agency Moderna (MRNA-US) Possibility of emergency use authorization (EUA) for the new crown vaccine.
The U.S. FDA’s external advisory group met on Thursday to measure the safety and effectiveness of Moderna’s vaccine candidates and recommended the approval of the EUA for the Moderna vaccine. The FDA will approve the authorization as soon as Friday.
Pfizer (PFE-US) And Germany BioNTech SE (BNTX-US) The co-developed new crown vaccine received EUA just last week.
According to Reuters statistics, 232,255 people were newly diagnosed in the United States on Wednesday, the second highest number of new daily cases so far.
The United States currently has 307,767 deaths from the new crown virus, and nearly 17 million have been diagnosed, ranking first in the world, but more vaccines are coming soon.
US Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar said on Thursday that 5.9 million doses of Moderna vaccine are enough to vaccinate 2.95 million people, have been allocated to state governors, and are ready to be shipped across the United States.
“We are going to start shipping to them this weekend so that they can launch it on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.”
Compared with Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines, Moderna’s cold storage requirements are less cumbersome, making it a better choice for suburban and rural areas, and the preventive effectiveness of these two vaccines in key clinical trials is about 95%.
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccines began to be shipped last weekend and are still being supplied to hospitals and frontline medical staff across the country.
But winter storms threaten to disrupt vaccine distribution in the Northeast.
General Gustave Perna of the U.S. Army and the head of the OWS vaccine distribution operation stated that FedEx (FDX-US) And UPS (UPS-US) An emergency plan has been developed to ensure that any delayed vaccines can be delivered safely.
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