Health
Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine: States plan for vaccines as daily US virus deaths top 3100 – The Australian Financial Review
The number of deaths obliterated the record set in April as the surging pandemic swamps US hospitals and leaves medical workers short-handed and burnt out.
The US recorded a record 3157 deaths on Wednesday alone, according to the tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. That is more than the number of people killed in the September 11 terrorist attacks and shattered the old mark of 2603, set on April 15, when the New York metropolitan area was the epicentre of the US outbreak.
The number of Americans in hospital with the coronavirus also hit an all-time high on Wednesday at more than 100,000, according to the COVID Tracking Project. The figure has more…
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