How Close Is the Pandemic’s End?

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🗓️ 4 March 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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It’s been almost a year since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. And the virus is persisting: A downward trend in the U.S. caseload has stalled, and concern about the impact of variants is growing. Yet inoculations are on the rise, and the F.D.A. has approved Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine, the third to be approved in the U.S. Today, we check in on the latest about the coronavirus.

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0:25.6	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow.
0:32.6	This is Daily.
0:35.6	Today, we're announcing a major step forward.
0:45.0	As President Biden accelerates plans for manufacturing vaccines.
0:49.7	We're now on track to have enough vaccine supply for every adult in America by the end
0:55.5	of May.
0:56.5	And several states race to fully reopen.
1:00.4	It is now time to open Texas 100%.
1:08.7	An update from my colleague, Science Writer Carl Zimmer, on the State of the Pandemic.
1:25.2	It's Thursday, March 4th.
1:34.7	Carl, March this month, we have just entered.
1:37.7	Marks the one-year anniversary of the pandemic.
1:39.9	For I think a lot of us, especially those of us who live in New York, because that's when
1:44.5	life started to change pretty dramatically.
1:48.1	And now a year into this pandemic, it seems like we're in a relatively good place.
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