WASHINGTON: The daily US COVID-19 death toll has surpassed 3,000 for the first time, prompting pleas for Americans to scale back Christmas plans even with vaccines on the cusp of winning regulatory approval.
A person uses her mobile phone at sunset from Griffith Observatory during a partial lockdown amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease , in Los Angeles, California, on Dec 7, 2020. "No Christmas parties. There is not a safe Christmas party in this country right now," Dr. Michael Osterholm, a member of US President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 advisory board, told CNN on Thursday."It won't end after that, but that is the period right now where we could have a surge upon a surge upon a surge," Osterholm said.
"Case numbers have been rising for weeks, they're higher now than they've ever been during this entire pandemic, Northam told a news briefing. A panel of independent medical experts was due to decide later on Thursday whether to recommend that the US Food and Drug AdministrationFDA consent could come as early as Friday or Saturday, followed by the first US injections on Sunday or Monday, Moncef Slaoui, chief adviser to the Trump administration's Operation Warp Speed vaccine development program, told Fox News.
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