The U.S. Vaccination Rate Continues To Slow
Short Wave
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🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to shortwave from NPR. |
| 0:06.3 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:07.3 | Emily Quang here with NPR Health Correspondent, Allison Aubrey, |
| 0:11.8 | who's here to give us a roundup of some of the latest COVID-19 news. |
| 0:16.2 | Great to be here. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, Emily. |
| 0:17.8 | Hey, so for all of the concerns about more infectious variants |
| 0:22.3 | of COVID-19, conditions in the US are kind of improving. |
| 0:26.7 | Yeah, I mean, we were stuck in this plateau |
| 0:29.1 | and then a bit of an increase after the plateau. |
| 0:31.4 | Now cases are declining. |
| 0:33.2 | New cases per day are averaging about 62,000 cases a day. |
| 0:37.5 | Hospitalizations did increase a bit last week. |
| 0:40.3 | There are hotspots, of course, Michigan we hear about. |
| 0:42.8 | But deaths are down overall. |
| 0:45.6 | And we've got about 29% of the total population vaccinated |
| 0:49.8 | and 42% of people in the US have received at least one dose. |
| 0:54.8 | So the vaccines are now readily available. |
| 0:58.2 | Right. |
| 0:59.2 | And the FDA has also lifted the pause on the Johnson and Johnson vaccine. |
| 1:04.6 | And that's a one shot option that could help increase vaccination rates further. |
| 1:08.8 | So things are moving in the right direction. |
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