One million Americans have been vaccinated against COVID.Tennessee’s new epicenter

New York (Reuters)-Tennessee emerged as the center of the latest COVID-19 surge alongside California on Wednesday, but 100 to prevent highly contagious coronavirus variants from hitting the UK by US political leaders Over 10,000 Americans have been vaccinated.

Tennessee was the highest infectious disease in the United States last week, with an average of nearly 128 new infectious diseases per 100,000 people, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. California was second with 111 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Governor Bill Lee said on Twitter that “our state has gone to zero with a surge in COVID-19 and Tennessees need to play their part,” wearing a face mask for Christmas. I urged the residents to get together only with their families.

Some public health officials say American travel and rallies for Thanksgiving contributed to the recent national outburst of the incident.

Overall, 31 states in the United States are reporting severe records of the new COVID-19 infection in December due to the surge in hospitalizations and deaths. More than 194,600 new cases were confirmed on Tuesday alone.

As of Wednesday morning, the CDC said the first of the two doses required for the two approved coronavirus vaccines had been given to more than one million people nationwide. However, it is said that most Americans can take more than six months to be targeted for a shot, as healthcare professionals, nursing home residents, and in some cases government officials are prioritized.

Health and Welfare Secretary Alex Azar and Dr. Anthony Fauci, Chief Executive Officer of Infectious Diseases in the United States, received the Modana vaccine live on television on Tuesday. President-elect Joe Biden was vaccinated with the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine in front of the camera on Monday.

Concerns grow beyond mutants

US House of Representatives Ilhan Omar, a Democrat in Minnesota, criticized earlier this week for political leaders putting themselves at the forefront.

“We’re less important than the front-line workers and teachers who make daily sacrifices, so I don’t receive it,” Omar said on Twitter.

The Trump administration said Wednesday that it had reached a $ 2 billion contract with Pfizer to distribute an additional 100 million doses of vaccine by July.

However, Americans who saw the light of hope with the release of the two vaccines in December learned that more infectious coronavirus variants were widespread in the United Kingdom. Pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Moderna were testing vaccines against mutants, but believed that the drug was effective against the mutant virus.[n4N2J229V]

The United States, unlike many countries around the world, does not ban travelers from the United Kingdom.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the city would order international travelers to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival and provide government officials with contact information. The sheriff’s agent will visit people arriving from the UK to enforce orders, the mayor said.

Travelers found to be in breach of these orders will be fined $ 1,000 a day, De Blasio said.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has asked airlines to screen British travelers for COVID-19. The state was the early epicenter of the virus, recording more than 36,000 COVID deaths, far more than any other state.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee has ordered a 14-day quarantine this week for travelers arriving from the United Kingdom, South Africa, or other countries where new variants have been detected.

In New York City, the vaccination program has been extended to the fire department, and about 6,000 employees have been infected with the virus, fire department director Dannigro told reporters. Approximately 400 FDNY rescue workers, including Manhattan’s Advanced Life Support Coordinator Berena Kansog, who shot her at a training center on Randall’s Island, were lined up to receive the first dose of the Moderna vaccine on Wednesday.

Worried about bringing the disease back to her elderly mother, Kansog told Reuters in a telephone interview. “I wasn’t a little nervous.”