Virus leaves 300 thousand dead in the US; mass vaccination begins

SAN DIEGO.

More than 300,000 people died from covid-19 in the United States, according to the Johns Hopkins University count.

That figure is equivalent to the population of the city of Cincinnati, in the state of Ohio.

The country surpassed this figure on the same day that a mass vaccination campaign was launched in the most mourning country in the world due to the pandemic.

The world’s leading economic power continues to set records by regularly exceeding 200,000 new cases per day and 2,500 deaths every 24 hours.

Yesterday, the health authorities with the support of the military and communications tried to reach all corners of the country as soon as possible with the first doses.

Meanwhile, experts maintained the warning that if the Americans insist on meeting on Christmas dates, a new, more devastating wave of infections could come.

Contrary to what happened in the first wave in the spring, which never fully fell, and then in the summer rebound, the current outbreak affects the country as a whole.

More than 109,000 people are currently hospitalized for covid-19 in the United States, a number never reached before, according to data from the Covid Tracking Project.

The hierarchy of priorities established by the Center for Disease Control (CDC for its acronym in English) to apply vaccines begins with medical and hospital support personnel for cases of covid-19, as they are the most exposed when facing daily to the virus.

They are followed by the elderly in nursing homes or nursing homes for the elderly.

Subsequently, the program establishes vulnerable communities due to their advanced age and diseases that are fatal to those infected, such as diabetes, hypertension and overweight.

In other places, the vaccine will be given to essential workers, such as those who serve in supermarkets.

Eventually, the vaccine will be available to the rest of the general population.

The CDC estimates that the majority of the population will be vaccinated between March and April.

The calculation coincides with the purpose of the president-elect, Joe Biden, to administer one hundred million vaccines in the first hundred days of his government, that is, it is towards the last day of April.

-With information from AFP

“TODAY I FEEL HOPE”

Intensive care nurse Sandra Lyndsay became the first person to receive the COVID vaccine in the United States.

Today I feel hopeful, ”said the nurse on the emergency ward of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York.

In addition, he shared that with the injection he did not feel anything different than when he receives any other vaccine.

We all have to do our part to put an end to this pandemic, “he added to applause.

Canada also began with the first applications, after receiving the shipment of the doses last Sunday.

This is Anita Quidangen, a nursing home worker in Ontario.

I’m good and excited, ”shared Quidangen.

Also Gisele Levesque, an 89-year-old woman who lives near Quebec, received the dose.

Canada will receive 249,000 doses of the vaccine this month and ordered 20 million vaccines from Pfizer while it was still in development, with the possibility of purchasing 56 million more doses.

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