A Day of Deaths 25 Percent Higher Than Spring’s Worst
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Updated at 8:50 p.m. ET on December 17, 2020.
This week, American health-care workers started receiving their first doses of a new COVID-19 vaccine. Early data have shown that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is safe and highly effective, reaching 95 percent efficacy about a week after the second of two doses. The second COVID-19 vaccine under evaluation for use in the United States is expected to receive an FDA emergency use authorization as soon as tomorrow.
COVID-19 vaccine doses won’t arrive in many U.S. nursing homes until or , but a few residents in and got their first shot this week. While staff and residents in nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities wait for doses to arrive, than in the previous week, and known cases of COVID-19 in long-term-care facilities are high and rising. Vaccinations in these facilities have the potential to save tens of.
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