America is entering a “new phase” of its coronavirus vaccination strategy, President Biden announced Tuesday — the same day the country’s number of reported infections dropped to its lowest point in seven months.
Here are some significant developments:
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End of carouselIndia became the second country in the world to tally more than 20 million total virus cases when the government announced 357,000 new infections and an additional 3,449 deaths on Tuesday. The first was the United States.
House Democrats increased pressure on the White House to support the temporary suspension of patent protections on vaccines, releasing a letter signed by 110 members calling on Biden to “restore America’s public health leadership on the world stage.”
The White House told states that coronavirus vaccine supply they leave unordered will become available to other states — the most significant shift in domestic vaccine distribution since Biden took office and part of an effort to address flagging demand in some areas of the country.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to expand emergency authorization to allow children as young as 12 to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by next week, according to federal officials familiar with the development.
Pfizer said Tuesday it expects global sales of its coronavirus vaccine to reach $26 billion in 2021, a milestone that would make it the biggest-selling pharmaceutical product in the world and that helps show why Pfizer is planning to expand use of mRNA technology for other vaccines and therapies.
The rolling average for daily vaccinations in the United States has fallen to its lowest point in more than seven weeks. The nation is administering about 2.3 million shots per day, the lowest since March 11. Daily vaccinations peaked in mid-April at nearly 3.4 million per day.
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