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    A Day of Deaths 25 Percent Higher Than Spring’s Worst

    For the second week in a row, more COVID-19 deaths were reported in the U.S. than at any other time in the pandemic.
    by The COVID Tracking Project Dec 17, 2020 6 minutes
    Source: Micah Green / Getty / Katie Martin / The Atlantic

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    Updated at 8:50 p.m. ET on December 17, 2020.

    This week, American health-care workers started receiving their first doses of a new COVID-19 vaccine. Early data have shown that the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is safe and highly effective, reaching 95 percent efficacy about a week after the second of two doses. The second COVID-19 vaccine under evaluation for use in the United States is expected to receive an FDA emergency use authorization as soon as tomorrow.

    COVID-19 vaccine doses won’t arrive in many U.S. nursing homes until or , but a few residents in and got their first shot this week. While staff and residents in nursing homes and other long-term-care facilities wait for doses to arrive, than in the previous week, and known cases of COVID-19 in long-term-care facilities are high and rising. Vaccinations in these facilities have the potential to save tens of.

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