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NYC postpones 23,000 COVID-19 inoculation appointments
NEW YORK — Coronavirus vaccine shortages have forced New York City to reschedule 23,000 inoculation appointments this week, prompting Mayor Bill de Blasio to renew calls that the federal government compel manufacturers to step up production. De Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have been criticizing the federal government's slow vaccine output for weeks now with the mayor repeatedly predicting the city would run out of doses before week’s end. “We need the supply expanded in a huge way,” de Blasio said at a Wednesday press briefing. News that the city has already had to cancel thousands of appointm...
New York Daily News
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Florida adds 13,720 new coronavirus cases as positivity dips
MIAMI — Florida’s Department of Health on Thursday confirmed 13,720 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s known total to 1,531,720. Also, 217 new resident deaths were announced, bringing the state’s resident death toll from the novel coronavirus to 23,613. No new nonresident deaths were announced, leaving the nonresident toll at 363. The Sunshine State has the fourth-highest death toll in the country, after New York, Texas, and California, according to The New York Times database of U.S. cases. According to the state’s Thursday COVID-19 vaccine report, 774,468 people have been vac...
Miami Herald
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Florida adds nearly 14,000 COVID-19 cases and 169 resident deaths as positivity rate dips
MIAMI — Florida’s Department of Health on Wednesday confirmed 13,990 additional cases of COVID-19, bringing the state’s known total to a new milestone: 1,517,472. Also, 169 new resident deaths were announced, bringing the state’s resident death toll from the novel coronavirus to 23,396. Five new nonresident deaths were also announced, bringing the nonresident toll to 363. The Sunshine State has the fourth-highest death toll in the country, after New York, Texas and California, according to The New York Times database of U.S. cases. According to the state’s Wednesday COVID-19 vaccine report, 70...
Miami Herald
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Florida’s 12,313 new COVID-19 cases, 111 deaths are the highest for a Sunday since July
MIAMI — The state of Florida’s COVID-19 dashboard reported another 12,313 cases and 111 total deaths, the highest numbers for a Sunday since summer’s pandemic peak, while the positive test rate slid for a fifth consecutive day. Throughout the pandemic, reduced data collection over the weekend usually has resulted in fewer cases and deaths reported on Sunday. One exception was July 12, the day Florida set a then-national record of 15,300 cases. That number wasn’t surpassed by a single Florida day until December’s last days and not surpassed on a Sunday until this one. The death toll, of which 1...
Miami Herald
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Ex-FDA head: vaccine rollout ‘not working,’ must ‘hit the reset’ to speed up
The U.S. blunder-filled vaccine rollout is “not working” and the U.S. should “hit the reset” on its strategy in order to distribute the vaccine faster, according to the former director of the Food and Drug Administration. Speaking to CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb said the U.S. needed a different strategy than the current one which has resulted in the country wildly underperforming its distribution projections. “We really need to get this vaccine out more quickly because this is really our only tool, our only backstop against the spread of these new variants. If we can get a lot of...
New York Daily News
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Congress mourns officer who died from injuries defending CapitolWASHINGTON — Mourning has begun in Congress for Capitol Police Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died Thursday from injuries sustained while defending the Capitol from a violent mob. Speaker Nancy Pelosi ordered the flags at the Capitol lowered to half-staff in Sicknick’s honor, and dozens of lawmakers released statements condemning violence and thanking officers for their service. Late Thursday night, many law enforcement officers were seen parking vehicles in a line to hold a moment of silence — the blue and red lights silently fla...
Tribune News Service
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Florida adds more than 19,000 COVID-19 cases again as hospitalizations continue to rise
MIAMI — On Friday, Florida reported 19,530 new COVID-19 cases, 24 hours after reporting a record high single-day number of COVID-19 cases of 19,816 on Thursday. Friday’s report by the Florida Department of Health brought the state’s known total of novel coronavirus cases to 1,449,252, the third-highest in the country, after California and Texas, according to the New York Times database of U.S. cases. Also, 185 new resident deaths were announced, bringing the state’s resident death toll to 22,666. The health department announced nine new non-resident deaths, raising the non-resident death toll ...
Miami Herald
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Will Bunch: Blame this president for why you haven’t gotten your vaccine yet: Ronald Reagan
The coronavirus vaccines — developed by Pfizer, Moderna and their partners in world-record time — were supposed to hail the hopeful end of 2020 much like Apollo 8′s beautiful achievement of orbiting the moon offered America an upbeat grand finale to 1968′s awful drumbeat of war, assassination and rioting. And while there are still good reasons to have faith in an ultimate reversal of fortune in 2021, the year's first images in the war against COVID-19 are long lines of frustrated senior citizens and baffled white-coated doctors demanding answers. It's been three weeks now since the first FedEx...
The Philadelphia Inquirer
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DeSantis warns Florida hospitals to step up COVID-19 vaccinations or see doses cut
ORLANDO, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis warned hospitals Monday that if they don’t step up their coronavirus vaccinations, their doses will start to be cut. At a news conference at the Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital in Longwood on Monday, DeSantis cited the hospital system’s expansion of the vaccine program as an example of what he wants other hospitals to do across the state. “If they’re exceeding their targets ... and there are other hospitals that are not moving the vaccine, then we’re going to up their allotment,” DeSantis said. “And we’re going to reduce the allotment of any hospital sy...
Orlando Sentinel
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Cuomo says New York hospitals must ‘use it or lose,’ shames NYC over vaccine distribution
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo put city-run hospitals and medical centers across the state on notice Monday, threatening fines and other measures if they don’t step up distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. The governor specifically called out Mayor Bill de Blasio and other officials who oversee public health systems, saying hospitals must administer their current allotments of doses by the end of the week or let the state take over. “This is a very serious public health issue. ... They have to use the allocation within seven days,” Cuomo said during a press briefing in Albany. “Otherwi...
New York Daily News
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