Posted on 02/22/2021 2:44:13 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The U.S. surpassed 500,000 deaths Monday, marking the latest grim milestone in the country's battle against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Health experts anticipated reaching the current death toll this month, as cases and hospitalizations peaked last month. Even as the trend is decreasing on both fronts, with deaths likely to slow in coming weeks, variants circulating bring a new wave of concerns.
President Joe Biden is slated to hold a vigil Monday evening to remember the 500,000 lives lost.
Projections of the circulation of the U.K. variant (B.1.1.7) show it will be the dominant strain in the U.S. by March. Studies are ongoing about the effects of the new strain, with the U.K. saying earlier this month it could be more deadly in addition to being more transmissible. But health experts believe the vaccines will continue to be effective in protecting against the strain.
Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is slated to have its vaccine candidate analyzed by independent experts for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), with anticipation of a rollout coming as early as the weekend. The single-dose vaccine would alleviate the burden on administrators for current two-dose vaccines and could help to reach more vulnerable populations because it requires less-intense cold storage than mRNA vaccines.
Novavax (NVAX), another vaccine candidate that has commitments for its candidate in the U.S. and globally, is now fully enrolled for its Phase 3 clinical trial, with results and a filing for emergency use authorization expected by Spring.
Another candidate from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Sanofi (SNY), which partnered for the effort, is moving ahead with a new formulation for Phase 2 after a previous version was deemed ineffective. The duo expects to start Phase 3 by the second quarter if all goes well.
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I would kobe to see the numbers of people dying of covid amd not with covid.
Kobe died in a helicopter crash, not from covid...
:)
Yawn, does ANYONE believe this number?
I can certainly think of one FReeper.
Correction
US Surpasses Half Million while Steal Occupies.
Thou Shall Not Steal
If anyone actually believes this grossly inflated number then please get psychological help
I call BS on these death Numbers, I personally Saw 2 People DIE from COVID, one was the driver of the Truck that had a Heart Attack while dying from COVID and the other was the Harley Rider he HIT HEAD ON who apparently was dying of COVID when he got Hit.
Nope. Not after seeing gunshot victims listed as covid deaths. Not buying it for one second.
Yes, probably over half of the population.
Eventually, it will be shown to be one of the biggest hoaxes, ever.
The CDC has become so corrupt as to be irrelevant.
A national center to prevent disease has to be credible to have a significant effect.
The CDC started sacrificing its credibility for political purposes long ago. Now, close to half the population has serious reason to doubt their numbers.
Somewhere around 70k which is flu / cold / pneumonia average.
There is no pandemic just a other cold variant.
No one I know believes it. My daughter works for Visa and got a call very early in the “epidemic” from a 70-year-old cardholder who was hospitalized overnight with a badly broken leg. An overnight in a hospital might be $5,000 - $7,000 at most, but his bill was $35,000 for “Covid respirator care.”
Meanwhile in my very nice senior complex, we have perhaps 200 “vulnerable” citizens who socialize and and have picnics on the lawn and go to one another’s places for dinner and drinks and whatever. No Covid cases that anyone knows of. One good friend died at 91 from Leukemia. Another fellow handed out free Corona beer to his friends in honor of the virus.
And there was no flu this year either. It’s like a miracle.
This story should have started with Once Upon a Time....
The 500K number may be suspect but there is no doubt that the CCP got more of us this past year than the NVA did in eight years.
Is that real deaths or part of the 1600% inflated numbers CDC admits happened?
covid covid covid is the new russia russia russia...
seek and find out why the biden administration isn’t concerned about the invaders bringing any illnesses with them across the border...
500K according to WHO, is the question.
100% BS- LIES
A true vaccine provides immunity to the individual as well as stopping transmission. These covid “vaccines” do neither. Yet we call them vaccines......
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