Photo: GettyAccording to data from theDepartment of Health and Human Services, COVID hospitalizations have reached a new low.HHS began recording hospitalization data in March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. The highest peak was in January of this year during the rise of the omicron variant with 159,000 hospitalizations in a single day. The new number is a seven-day average of 16,760 in hospital beds.A child getting a COVID-19 vaccine dose.GettyNews of record-low hospitalizations comes after discussions in The White House about runningout of funding to pay for a potential fourth COVID-19 vaccine dosefor all Americans.The lack of money is due to Congress eliminating the proposed $15 billionfor the White House’s COVID-19 program— whichsupplies free testing, treatments and vaccinations — in the larger government spending bill that passed three weeks ago and PresidentJoe Bidensigned into law.The Biden administration has already purchased enough doses for Americans over 65 and children under 5, if both groups become eligible for a fourth dose and the start of their vaccination series, respectively, officialstold theWashington Post. But beyond that, they have been unable to secure more doses due to a lack of funding, and risk losing out on them as other countries buy them up.“Right now, we don’t have enough money for fourth doses, if they’re called for,” White House coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients told former COVID-19 advisor Andy Slavitt on an upcoming episode of his podcast,In The Bubble With Andy Slavitt,recorded Monday and shared with thePost. “We don’t have the funding, if we were to need a variant-specific vaccine in the future.“Though the future of the vaccine’s fourth dose is still in the air, the average of new COVID cases is also decreasing with an average of 32,000 new cases a day, a 7% fall in the last two weeks, per reports ofNBC.Vaccinationscould soon be openedto children younger than 5, the last vaccination-ineligible group in the U.S.Five states set records Thursday for fewest average Covid hospitalizations: Florida, Indiana, Mississippi, Nevada and Wyoming. Wyoming reported nine people hospitalized, a rate of close to 1 hospitalization per 100,000 residents, the lowest among states.
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According to data from theDepartment of Health and Human Services, COVID hospitalizations have reached a new low.HHS began recording hospitalization data in March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. The highest peak was in January of this year during the rise of the omicron variant with 159,000 hospitalizations in a single day. The new number is a seven-day average of 16,760 in hospital beds.A child getting a COVID-19 vaccine dose.GettyNews of record-low hospitalizations comes after discussions in The White House about runningout of funding to pay for a potential fourth COVID-19 vaccine dosefor all Americans.The lack of money is due to Congress eliminating the proposed $15 billionfor the White House’s COVID-19 program— whichsupplies free testing, treatments and vaccinations — in the larger government spending bill that passed three weeks ago and PresidentJoe Bidensigned into law.The Biden administration has already purchased enough doses for Americans over 65 and children under 5, if both groups become eligible for a fourth dose and the start of their vaccination series, respectively, officialstold theWashington Post. But beyond that, they have been unable to secure more doses due to a lack of funding, and risk losing out on them as other countries buy them up.“Right now, we don’t have enough money for fourth doses, if they’re called for,” White House coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients told former COVID-19 advisor Andy Slavitt on an upcoming episode of his podcast,In The Bubble With Andy Slavitt,recorded Monday and shared with thePost. “We don’t have the funding, if we were to need a variant-specific vaccine in the future.“Though the future of the vaccine’s fourth dose is still in the air, the average of new COVID cases is also decreasing with an average of 32,000 new cases a day, a 7% fall in the last two weeks, per reports ofNBC.Vaccinationscould soon be openedto children younger than 5, the last vaccination-ineligible group in the U.S.Five states set records Thursday for fewest average Covid hospitalizations: Florida, Indiana, Mississippi, Nevada and Wyoming. Wyoming reported nine people hospitalized, a rate of close to 1 hospitalization per 100,000 residents, the lowest among states.
According to data from theDepartment of Health and Human Services, COVID hospitalizations have reached a new low.
HHS began recording hospitalization data in March 2020, at the beginning of the pandemic. The highest peak was in January of this year during the rise of the omicron variant with 159,000 hospitalizations in a single day. The new number is a seven-day average of 16,760 in hospital beds.
A child getting a COVID-19 vaccine dose.Getty
News of record-low hospitalizations comes after discussions in The White House about runningout of funding to pay for a potential fourth COVID-19 vaccine dosefor all Americans.
The lack of money is due to Congress eliminating the proposed $15 billionfor the White House’s COVID-19 program— whichsupplies free testing, treatments and vaccinations — in the larger government spending bill that passed three weeks ago and PresidentJoe Bidensigned into law.
The Biden administration has already purchased enough doses for Americans over 65 and children under 5, if both groups become eligible for a fourth dose and the start of their vaccination series, respectively, officialstold theWashington Post. But beyond that, they have been unable to secure more doses due to a lack of funding, and risk losing out on them as other countries buy them up.
“Right now, we don’t have enough money for fourth doses, if they’re called for,” White House coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients told former COVID-19 advisor Andy Slavitt on an upcoming episode of his podcast,In The Bubble With Andy Slavitt,recorded Monday and shared with thePost. “We don’t have the funding, if we were to need a variant-specific vaccine in the future.”
Though the future of the vaccine’s fourth dose is still in the air, the average of new COVID cases is also decreasing with an average of 32,000 new cases a day, a 7% fall in the last two weeks, per reports ofNBC.
Vaccinationscould soon be openedto children younger than 5, the last vaccination-ineligible group in the U.S.
Five states set records Thursday for fewest average Covid hospitalizations: Florida, Indiana, Mississippi, Nevada and Wyoming. Wyoming reported nine people hospitalized, a rate of close to 1 hospitalization per 100,000 residents, the lowest among states.
source: people.com
