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Officials call for more vaccine doses as the US death toll passes 400,000 - CNN

Officials call for more vaccine doses as the US death toll passes 400,000 - CNN

Officials call for more vaccine doses as the US death toll passes 400,000 - CNN
Jan 20, 2021 1 min, 2 secs

But, he said, "we can't make the vaccine go much faster than it is right now," adding that officials will need to plan for dramatic action to keep the variant under control.

"The difference is going to be, 'Are we going to react now or later?'" Osterholm said.

Anthony Fauci said is a misunderstanding.

"In the beginning, when we wanted to make sure that everyone who got one dose would get a second dose.

Because of the uncertainty in the smoothness of the rollout of the doses that would be available, half of the doses would be held back so that people would be guaranteed to get their second dose," Fauci told CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday.

Now, with more confidence in the consistent distribution, those doses that were held back have been made available, Fauci said.

Across the US, more than 10.5 million people have received at least the first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine, about 1.6 million of whom have received a second dose, according to CDC data last updated Friday.

But state and local officials are worried the supply will not be enough to continue the momentum.

San Francisco's Department of Public Health announced its supply will be exhausted by Thursday if there isn't an additional allotment.

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