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‘Halfway there’ Biden marks 50 million COVID-19 jabs

‘Halfway there’ Biden marks 50 million COVID-19 jabs

‘Halfway there’ Biden marks 50 million COVID-19 jabs
Feb 25, 2021 1 min, 0 secs

US President Joe Biden held a ceremony commemorating 50 million coronavirus vaccine jabs on Thursday, amid rising concerns about the emergence of new variants in at least two states.

The push to vaccinate more Americans is taking place amid a steady decline in new cases, hospitalisations and deaths, but it is also happening amid the emergence of two variants that some researchers say may be more transmissible, and may show resistance to the vaccines currently being administered.

A new coronavirus variant that shares some similarities with a more transmissible and intractable variant discovered in South Africa is on the rise in New York City, researchers said on Wednesday.

“We don’t have any evidence at this point that the variants, that this New York variant, the 1.526 is what is contributing to the trajectory of cases, which we should emphasise continue to decrease,” Chokshi said during a news briefing.

Charles Chiu, a professor of laboratory medicine and infectious diseases at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, and a lead scientist on coronavirus mutations said variants – even when they are highly transmissible – can still be controlled through social distancing, wearing masks, washing hands, as well as continuing to vaccinate people.

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