Greater than 900,000 children ages 5-11 may have been jabbed by day’s finish with their first COVID-19 vaccination shot in lower than every week because the photographs grew to become obtainable to the age group, the White Home stated Wednesday.
Jeff Zients, President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 response coordinator, stated one other 700,000 photographs have been scheduled in pharmacies alone for the elementary school-aged children.
“Dad and mom and households throughout the nation are respiratory large sighs of aid, and we’re simply getting began,” Zients stated at a White Home briefing on the rollout.
Packaging and delivery of the vaccines, that are given in smaller doses than these for adults, couldn’t start till the Meals and Drug Administration granted emergency use authorization on Oct. 29. A lot work must be finished – the U.S. has about 28 million youngsters ages 5-11. Over 20,000 vaccinations websites, from colleges to pediatric medical doctors’ workplaces, are up and operating and extra are coming quickly, Zients stated.
It isn’t clear what influence vaccine hesitancy may have on the rollout. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, strongly endorsed vaccination for the age group.
“COVID-19 poses a major danger to our youngsters,” she stated on the briefing. “Whereas youngsters stay extra resilient than adults to this virus, they nonetheless stay in danger, and with the assistance of vaccines we are able to stop COVID-19 and lots of different illnesses that have been as soon as deadly.”
Additionally within the information:
►The U.S. has negotiated a deal to distribute Johnson & Johnson’s COVID vaccine to individuals residing in battle zones, Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated Wednesday. He didn’t specify the variety of doses.
►Training Secretary Miguel Cardona instructed CBS’s “Face the Nation” that given the widespread availability of vaccines and improved therapies towards COVID-19, there “ought to be no need for remote or hybrid learning.”
►The NFL fined Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers for violating COVID-19 protocols. The league performed a evaluate of Rodgers’ and the Packers’ actions associated to protocol after the quarterback examined optimistic for COVID final week.
📈As we speak’s numbers: The U.S. has recorded greater than 46.6 million confirmed COVID-19 circumstances and greater than 757,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. International totals: Greater than 251 million circumstances and 5 million deaths. Greater than 194.1 million People – 58.5% of the inhabitants – are totally vaccinated, according to the CDC.
📘 What we’re studying: Are you vaxxed? Some families face fraught divide over jabs.
Hold refreshing this web page for the newest information. Need extra? Sign up for USA TODAY’s Coronavirus Watch newsletter to obtain updates on to your inbox, and join our Facebook group.
Vaccines are protected, principally efficient on most cancers sufferers, examine finds
Most cancers sufferers do not generate fairly as sturdy an immune response from COVID-19 vaccines, however they’re higher off getting them, particularly the mRNA ones. And booster photographs assist.
These are a few of the primary conclusions of a brand new examine into the safety offered by the vaccines to people being handled for most cancers, who’re particularly weak to the coronavirus as a result of their immune techniques are compromised.
The vaccines are protected, and their effectiveness on most cancers sufferers is barely modestly diminished in comparison with wholesome people, in line with a examine of 1,001 sufferers with totally different types of most cancers on the Massachusetts Basic Hospital Most cancers Heart. The report was printed Wednesday within the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
“Chemotherapy modestly diminished immune responses, however not as a lot as sufferers and clinicians initially feared,” stated co-lead investigator Dr. Vivek Naranbhai, a scientific fellow on the hospital and the Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute.
Most cancers sufferers had a stronger immune response to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines – each of which use mMRA expertise – than to the Johnson and Johnson shot. Nevertheless, all three figured to guard from extreme illness, and all have been enhanced by boosters.
Infections rise in Europe as they do not want elsewhere
Europe accounted for nearly two-thirds of the three.1 million new coronavirus infections worldwide final week, when it was the one area that had a gentle enhance in each COVID-19 circumstances and deaths, the World Well being Group stated Wednesday. It was the sixth consecutive week virus transmission has risen throughout the continent.
Deaths rose by 10% within the European area, which for the WHO’s objective’s consists of Russia and extends to Central Asia. Circumstances grew by 7%, including as much as 1.9 million for the week.
The nations with the best numbers of recent circumstances worldwide have been the U.S., Russia, Britain, Turkey and Germany. The variety of weekly COVID-19 deaths fell by about 4% worldwide and declined in each area besides Europe.
Sleep issues linked to increased charge of COVID hospitalization, dying, examine finds
Folks with sure sleep issues have extra extreme outcomes from COVID-19, together with a 31% increased charge of hospitalization and dying, in line with a examine printed Wednesday in JAMA Community Open. Cleveland Clinic researchers analyzed information from almost 360,000 sufferers who examined for COVID-19, of which 5,400 had an obtainable sleep examine report. They discovered these with sleep-disordered respiratory and sleep-related hypoxia had a worse scientific prognosis from COVID-19. The examine managed for different underlying circumstances similar to weight problems, coronary heart and lung illness, most cancers and smoking.
“If certainly sleep-related hypoxia interprets to worse COVID-19 outcomes, danger stratification methods ought to be applied to prioritize early allocation of COVID-19 remedy to this subgroup of sufferers,” stated Dr. Cinthya Peña Orbea, examine creator and sleep specialist on the Cleveland Clinic’s Sleep Issues Heart.
Whereas these sufferers had worse outcomes from COVID-19, researchers discovered they didn’t have an elevated danger of creating the illness.
– Adrianna Rodriguez
Florida county mourns 9 virus deaths in a single sheriff’s division
A bell solemnly tolled 9 occasions in Broward County, Florida, at a memorial service Tuesday for sheriff’s division staff who died from the coronavirus. Sheriff Gregory Tony was flanked by an honor guard as American flags have been positioned within the arms of the victims’ family.
“We didn’t lose one, two, three – we misplaced 9,” the sheriff stated.
Tony stated greater than half the the division’s 5,600 staff have been uncovered, and 32% – 1,800 staff – have contracted the illness, which has killed greater than 60,000 Floridians and greater than 750,000 People. The county doesn’t require staff to be vaccinated, however provides a $500 bonus for many who present proof of vaccination. Unvaccinated staff face a biweekly surcharge of $20 towards the extra value of medical health insurance in addition to weekly COVID testing.
Pfizer CEO labels those that unfold vaccine misinformation as ‘criminals’
“Professionals” who purposely unfold misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines are criminals, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla says. In an interview with the Atlantic Council assume tank, Bourla stated the world has turn out to be divided into two teams: those that are vaccinated and those that will not be. Each teams, he stated, are pushed by concern – vaccinated individuals are afraid of contracting COVID-19 and unvaccinated individuals are “skeptical” of the vaccine and “mad that individuals are urgent them to get it. These I perceive. They’re excellent individuals, first rate individuals.”
However Bourla has much less empathy or understanding for what he stated are the “small” quantity of people that have knowingly circulated misinformation. These individuals can’t be certified simply as unhealthy individuals, he stated, including: “They’re criminals. They’ve actually value tens of millions of lives.”
The interview was live-streamed on-line and the replay is available to watch here.
3,158 individuals claimed damages from COVID therapy: None has been paid
Greater than 3,100 claims alleging injuries from COVID-19 vaccines and treatments have been filed with the federal Countermeasures Damage Compensation Program throughout the pandemic. Of the three,158 claims, 1,357 allege accidents or deaths from the COVID-19 vaccine. To this point, not one of the claims have been paid, and solely two vaccine circumstances have been rejected. Only one COVID-19 declare has been deemed eligible for compensation, however program staffers are reviewing allowable bills. That leaves greater than 3,000 circumstances nonetheless beneath evaluate. Read more here.
“We work to course of claims as expeditiously as potential,” stated Christy Choi, a spokeswoman for the Well being Assets and Companies Administration, which runs the compensation program. “About 90% of claims are awaiting medical data for evaluate.”
– Ken Alltucker
San Francisco police officer dies whereas on go away after failing to get vaccinated
A police officer who was positioned on go away for lacking San Francisco’s deadline to be inoculated has died after being suffering from COVID-19, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Officer Jack Nyce, 46, examined optimistic on Nov. 2 and died Saturday at a hospital in Manteca, his spouse, Melissa Nyce, instructed the newspaper. The Chronicle stated Melissa Nyce declined to say whether or not her husband was vaccinated. Nevertheless, the vice chairman of the Police Officers Affiliation, Lt. Tracy McCray, stated Jack Nyce was on a 30-day stint of paid administrative go away as a result of he had not acquired the vaccination required by town.
The Police Division stated final week that as many as 70 sworn and civilian staff had been positioned on go away for not assembly a Nov. 1 vaccination deadline. As of Nov. 2, 97.5% of division staff have been totally vaccinated.
Honesty is greatest: Ideas for speaking to your youngsters about getting vaccinated
When you’re taking your baby to get vaccinated towards COVID-19, specialists say there are approaches that may make it simpler for each you and your baby. It begins with perhaps the oldest rule within the e-book: Honesty is one of the best coverage. Adam Keating, a common pediatrician with Cleveland Clinic Kids’s, instructed USA TODAY that folks can kind a “technique” to speak concerning the COVID-19 vaccine – and vaccines on the whole – with their youngsters.
“Anytime you are doing a vaccine with a child, it is value having a dialog beforehand and a method earlier than they get the vaccine,” Keating stated.
“Usually, my choice is that it is a dialog that the child has time to arrange for beforehand, and so they do not study it 30 seconds earlier than it occurs,” he stated. “That does not give the child management over the vaccine. And a lot of the fear and the ache that occurs with vaccines is concerning the lack of management and the dearth of time to arrange.” Read more here.
– Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY
GOP needs Kansas to maneuver towards vaccine mandates this month
Republican lawmakers in Kansas are pushing to enact new state legal guidelines earlier than Thanksgiving to guard staff financially in the event that they refuse to adjust to federal mandates to get vaccinated towards COVID-19. High GOP legislative leaders known as Tuesday for lawmakers to have a particular session to contemplate proposals making it simpler for staff to assert non secular exemptions from vaccine mandates and offering unemployment advantages to staff who’re fired for refusing to get inoculated. Each proposals emerged from a legislative committee assembly Tuesday and are available in response to vaccine mandates introduced in September by President Joe Biden.
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly final week went public along with her opposition to the Democratic president’s mandates, but additionally stated she did not assume a particular session is warranted. Lawmakers can pressure one if two-thirds of them signal a petition, and Republicans have large enough majorities. Lawmakers adjourned for the 12 months in Could and are not scheduled to reconvene till January.
Contributing: The Related Press
