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Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Just one month ago, Iowa experienced its worst Covid-19 surge yet. Coronavirus cases began soaring there in early November, as they have throughout the United States. By the middle of the month, Iowa was recording about 4,000 new cases every day. But this week, staff at a University of Iowa Health Care system finally had reason to celebrate. The first doses of Pfizer’s vaccine arrived at the Iowa City location Monday morning, in tiny vials packed in dry ice. Angelica Lavito spoke to healthcare workers there just after they became some of the first Americans outside of clinical trials to get immunized against the deadly disease.

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0:33.6	Welcome to Prognosis. I'm Laura Carlson. It's day 277 since coronavirus was declared a global pandemic.
0:43.6	Today's main story, healthcare workers at some of the country's most overwhelmed hospitals
0:50.2	finally have reason to celebrate. What it's like to be among the first inoculated against the deadly virus.
1:00.2	But first, here's what happened in virus news today.
1:04.8	Today. In the U.S., Congress looks closer to passing a coronavirus relief deal.
1:22.7	Two people familiar with the negotiations say it includes stimulus payments to individuals and supplemental
1:30.2	unemployment insurance, but not liability protections or direct aid for state and local governments.
1:38.8	Leaders are rushing to finalize the package in time to attach it to crucial government spending legislation
1:45.4	and pass it by the end of the week. Four people briefed on the discussions said it is expected
1:52.8	to be less than $900 billion. Some of the first doses of the Pfizer-incorporated
2:00.8	Bio-Ntech COVID-19 vaccine were held up from delivery in the U.S. this week and sent back to the company because they were colder than anticipated.
2:13.6	Gustav Perina, the Army General who serves as Operation Warpspeeds Chief Operations Officer,
2:20.2	said that two trades of vials at two California locations reached 92 degrees below zero,
2:28.3	colder than they are supposed to be stored.
2:31.3	The same thing happened at one location in Alabama. Pernas said at a news briefing
2:36.8	on Wednesday. Finally, Germany recorded 910 coronavirus fatalities in the 24 hours through Wednesday morning,
2:49.0	the most since the pandemic began.
2:52.2	A strict shutdown designed to stem the surge of infections is being put in place.
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