The results are preliminary, but they are encouraging: Another candidate vaccine has proven extremely effective against COVID-19. Moderna, working with the federal government, has early results that show a 94.5% efficacy rate for its shots.
It's the latest good news on the vaccine front. Earlier this month, Pfizer/BioNTech released results indicating their candidate was 90% effective.
The encouraging developments are desperately needed at a time when many states are taking increasingly stringent measures to combat a rise in new COVID-19 cases. California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday that 41 counties — home to about 37 million people — would move into the most restrictive tier in the state's reopening system. On Sunday, Michigan and Washington also announced new restrictions.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, said on NBC's "Today" show that the news from Moderna "is really quite impressive." He said the Moderna and Pfizer news “is something that foretells an impact on this outbreak.”
“So now we have two vaccines that are really quite effective, so I think this is a really strong step forward to where we want to be about getting control with this outbreak,” Fauci said, predicting vaccines for those at high-risk could be available by the end of December.
All vaccines, once administered, are expected to cause sore arms and a day or two of fatigue and flu-like symptoms. Before the companies can apply to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for authorization to provide their vaccine to the public, they must jump through several more hurdles.
More developments:
Dr. Scott Atlas, a member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus task force, faced heavy criticism after telling Michiganders to "rise up" against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's stringent new COVID restrictions.
As Trump continues to delay a transition of power to president-elect Joe Biden, health officials are decrying the postponement.
Unless you are under 2 years of age, you must cover your face to shop at Costco. No more medical exemptions are being allowed.
📈 Today's numbers: The U.S. has reported more than 11.1 million cases and more than 247,100 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. The global totals: 54.8 million cases and 1.32 million deaths.
"The low case detection rate of this resource-intensive program highlighted the need for fundamental change in the U.S. border health strategy,'' the report said. "Because SARS-CoV-2 infection and transmission can occur in the absence of symptoms and because the symptoms of COVID-19 are nonspecific, symptom-based screening programs are ineffective for case detection.''
The screening program ended Sept. 14 and was replaced by efforts to promote prevention among travelers and improving public health response at ports of entry.
California toughens restrictions amid 'fastest increase'
Large parts of California are closing shop.
Nearly three-quarters of the counties — home to 94.1% of the state's population — will be required to operate under the state’s most stringent pandemic restrictions, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. Indoor dining, gyms and movie theaters, among other businesses, must either remain closed or shut down in 41 of the state's 58 counties, beginning Tuesday.
Newsom said he is “sounding the alarm” due to “the fastest increase California has seen" since the pandemic began, with COVID-19 cases doubling in the last 10 days. Cases rose 51.3% in the first week of November. California hit 1 million coronavirus cases last week, joining Texas as the only states to reach the undesired milestone.
Under the state’s Blueprint for a Safer Economy, which is its four-tiered, color-coded system for reopening, the state can tighten restrictions based on emergency situations.
– Nicole Hayden, Palm Springs Desert Sun
2021 NCAA Tourney likely to be played in Indianapolis
The NCAA is trying to make sure its signature men's basketball tournamnent doesn't get canceled again.
The college athletics ruling body said Monday it plans to move the 2021 March Madness from its usual multi-venue format to a single-site location in an attempt to safely conduct the event that crowns the season's Division I national champion. The 2020 tournament was called off because of the coronavirus pandemic.
"It became apparent to the committee that conducting the championship at 13 preliminary round sites spread throughout the country would be very difficult to execute in the current pandemic environment," the NCAA said in a new release. "The committee has decided the championship should be held in a single geographic area to enhance the safety and well-being of the event."
That locale is expected to be Indianapolis, where the Final Four was scheduled to take place April 3 and 5, although the NCAA has yet to confirm that decision.
– Chris Bumbaca
More than 1M US teens, children have been infected
The evidence increasingly shows young people are not immune to the coronavirus.
The number of U.S. infants, children and teens diagnosed with COVID-19 has surpassed 1 million, according to data released Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.
The total hit nearly 1.04 million kids on Nov. 12, including nearly 112,000 new cases last week. That was the highest weekly total of any previous week in the pandemic, the academy said.
AAP President Sally Goza called the data “staggering and tragic.” Children generally are much more likely than adults to have mild cases but hospitalizations and deaths do occur. According to data from state health departments that's missing some states, at least 6,330 pediatric hospitalizations and 133 deaths have been recorded since May.
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