'Get vaccinated and you can enjoy the holidays very easily. And if you're not, please be careful,' said. Dr. Anthony Fauci, as COVID-19 cases climbed nationally after months of decline.
) authorized the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children between 5 and 11 years old earlier this month.
About 29 million children are now eligible for the two-shot vaccine, which is one-third of the quantity of adult doses and required to be administered two weeks apart. So far, more than 2 million children—7 percent of those between 5 and 11 years old—have received their first shot. Still, the timeline has made it impossible to ensure that children can be fully vaccinated for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Throughout September and October, COVID-19 cases plummeted across the country following a sharp summer wave driven by the highly contagious Delta variant. But cases have been rising again in most parts of the nation this month, as most families prepare to gather for the Thanksgiving holiday. Daily COVID-19 cases averaged around 94,000 this week, an increase of about one third from one month ago. The latest curve signals that the U.S. is barreling toward another winter wave of the pandemic, however, that figure is still better compared to the 160,000 daily cases that were recorded this time last year.recently pushed forward with a sweeping mandate that requires millions of employees in private companies to get fully vaccinated by early 2022.
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