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Biden Covid group briefs press as winter storm delays vaccine deliveries

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President Joe Biden’s Covid-19 Response Team plans to hold a press conference on Friday while a massive winter storm has closed vaccine dispensaries and delayed shipments to the United States

The Chief Medical Officer of the White House, Dr. Anthony Fauci, warned Thursday that the power outages and winter storm in Texas are a “significant” problem for Covid-19 vaccine distribution this week. The Biden government has announced a number of moves in recent weeks to increase vaccine intake, such as shipping cans directly to retail pharmacies and community health centers.

“We just have to make up for it as soon as the weather subsides a bit, the ice melts and we can get the trucks and the people out,” said Fauci during an interview with MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.

FedEx and UPS package centers in the Midwest were also hit by the storm, delaying vaccine shipments across the country.

The delay comes because the country’s leading health authorities, including Fauci and the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, calling on Americans to contain the spread of the virus so that the US can give vaccines before highly contagious variants make the pandemic worse.

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– CNBC’s Berkeley Lovelace Jr. contributed to this report.

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New York Gov. Cuomo briefs the press on Covid pandemic

New York Gov. Cuomo briefs the press on Covid pandemic

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo holds a press conference Tuesday on the coronavirus after it was announced that the state has identified its first Covid-19 case caused by a new, more contagious variant of the virus.

On Monday, Cuomo told reporters on a conference call that New York had confirmed its first Covid-19 case with the new strain B.1.1.7, originally discovered in the United Kingdom. The man, who is now recovering, lives in New York state with no travel history, the governor said.

The strain, which has also been found in California, Florida, and Colorado, is believed to be communicable but doesn’t appear to make people sicker or increase the risk of death from Covid-19, experts have said.

“If other states could test as much as we tested and tested on the British strain as much as we tested, they would find them,” Cuomo said.

During a press conference earlier Monday, the Democratic governor urged state hospitals to speed up their allocations of coronavirus vaccines and threatened fines of up to $ 10,000 if they fail to use the doses by the end of this week.

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New York Gov. Cuomo briefs the press on Covid pandemic as outbreak worsens

NY Gov. Cuomo holds a press briefing as state prepares to distribute Covid vaccine

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will hold a press conference on Wednesday on the coronavirus as Covid-19 hospital admissions hit the levels last reported in early May.

According to the Covid Tracking Project, an independent volunteer organization launched by journalists in the Atlantic, 7,814 patients with Covid-19 were hospitalized in New York on Tuesday. This is the highest number since May 8th.

The increase in sick patients has led the state to prepare to reuse the Javits Center as an emergency Covid-19 field hospital. This emerges from reports in the New York Post quoting Cuomo senior advisor Rich Azzopardi and Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling. Cuomo has already announced that the state will reopen a field hospital on Staten Island after a surge in hospital stays.

The Democratic governor is also considering new lockdown measures in January if the current surge continues, although new restrictions are not guaranteed, he said. According to a CNBC analysis of data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, the state has reported over 100 daily Covid-19 deaths for over two weeks, a total of more than 37,600 deaths since the pandemic began.

“As we near the New Year and the end of the holiday season, all New Yorkers must remember one simple truth – celebrating smart stop shutdowns,” Cuomo said in a statement Tuesday.

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NY Gov. Cuomo briefs the press on Covid pandemic as state distributes vaccines

NY Gov. Cuomo briefs the press on Covid pandemic as state distributes vaccines

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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will hold a press conference on Friday on Covid vaccine sales plans as the state threatens further economic shutdown.

During a press conference on Wednesday, Cuomo warned that unnecessary businesses may be forced to close again early next year unless the state restricts escalating coronavirus cases. However, whether the state will again impose an economic lockdown depends on what New Yorkers do in the remaining vacation time and whether new Covid-19 infections decrease or increase, he said.

“Of course, a shutdown in January is possible,” said Cuomo at a press conference in Albany. “But there is a big but,” he said, spelling the word letter by letter “BUT”.

According to a CNBC analysis of the data compiled by Johns Hopkins University, New York is responding to a surge in Covid-19 cases above the levels reported in the spring, causing an average of 10,914 new infections per day over the past week.

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