WASHINGTON, Aug 1 — Two major drug companies will supply the US government with 100 million doses of an experimental coronavirus vaccine, the Trump administration said yesterday, as the nation’s top health agency predicted that fatalities would rise in the coming weeks. The agreement calls for...
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The agreement calls for the US government to pay French drug maker Sanofi and British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline up to US$2.1 billion to supply it with enough vaccines for 50 million people, with the option to buy another 500 million doses. The US Centres for Disease Control yesterday forecast between 168,000 and 182,000 total fatalities by August 22, predicting that deaths will rise fastest in Alabama, Kentucky, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Tennessee and Washington state.
A top White House pandemic advisor, Dr Deborah Birx, has said the virus appeared to be shifting away from Sunbelt states, including Arizona, California, Florida and Texas, and moving into the Midwest. Florida also reported 9,007 new cases, bringing its total infections to over 470,000, the second highest in the country behind California. Florida is among at least 18 states that saw cases more than double in July, when almost 25,000 people in the United States died of Covid-19.
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