The coronavirus pandemic is hitting a worldwide milestone.
The database at Johns Hopkins University shows the global case count has surpassed 70-million. The worldwide death toll now stands at over one-point-five-nine million. The U.S. leads in both those categories as new infections have surged around the country for weeks. Only 14 countries have more than one-million total cases.
The number of people fighting the coronavirus in the hospital is setting a new high once again. Matt Mattenson has more:
On our own national stage, President Trump says a new coronavirus vaccine will help put an end to the pandemic “once and for all.”
The FDA on Friday granted emergency use authorization for Pfizer and BioNTech’sCOVID vaccine. In a video posted to Twitter, Trump called it “a medical miracle” and “one of the greatest scientific accomplishments in history.”
We will show you different sides so you can decide. We don’t know much about the vaccines in these early stages. But we do know that the vaccines themselves come with short-term side effects.
Both the Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna vaccines work in similar ways. They introduce a genetic code to the body that causes it to produce the coronavirus’s spike protein. That then causes the immune system to respond.
In the clinical trials, fewer than two percent of people who received the vaccine developed a severe fever. About 10 percent reported fatigue, nine percent said they had muscle pain, and five percent experienced joint pain. Just below five percent said the worst side effect they had was a headache.
