Here are some significant developments:
- President Biden said Tuesday that the United States will have enough vaccine doses for every adult by the end of May, moving up the target date. He also announced plans to vaccinate all K-12 teachers and child-care workers with their first shot by the end of March.
- Biden announced that pharmaceutical giant Merck will help make Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine in an unusual pact between competitors that could boost the supply of the new single-shot vaccine.
- The White House announced that states will receive another increase in the weekly supply of coronavirus vaccine doses. The output of the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines will increase from 14.5 million to 15.2 million doses, according to press secretary Jen Psaki.
- As states such as Texas and Mississippi begin to roll back coronavirus restrictions such as mask mandates, Biden cautioned that the fight against the virus “is far from over.”
- The White House’s senior adviser for the coronavirus response, Andy Slavitt, told CNN that the White House thinks “it’s a mistake” to rescind restrictions too early and called on Abbott to rethink his decision to lift Texas’s mask mandate.
- Brazil recorded the highest number of covid-19 deaths in a single day with 1,641 new deaths in the past 24 hours, surpassing last week’s previous record of about 1,541 coronavirus-related deaths, official data shows.
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