1 million COVID deaths: A timeline of unprecedented milestones

I am officially declaring a national emergency. We need to do much more. We have to be at the forefront to prevent this. Our testing capacity is nowhere near what you need. The United States could soon be the global epicenter of efforts to manage the outbreak. Coronavirus vaccine is ramping up in the United States The battle against the virus has reached a new milestone The death toll is approaching one

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Officials are testing passengers from cruise ships stranded just 70 miles off the coast of San Francisco To prevent new cases from entering our coasts, we will suspend all travel from Europe to the United States for the next 30 days.

I will turn this state upside down to get the number of beds we need. It was New York Governor Andrew Cuomo who closed the curtain on Broadway. the ncaa has canceled the march madness national basketball tournament disneyland in california and disney world in florida will close until the end of the month the headquarters of the u.s open is being converted into a 350-bed hospital and this tent city in central park will begin to accept patients tomorrow no more than 50 percent of the workforce can report to work outside the home, which is a mandatory requirement, we need about 30,000 ventilators and we simply cannot get them, get them, get them across the country, coronavirus forced abruptly keep at least 55

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children from elementary school through college out of their classrooms if you are shopping for groceries, picking up your prescription, or visiting any other essential business, you will be required to wear a face covering, and if you are not wearing a face covering, a Essential Companies can deny service even to all the nurses and doctors who help all the sick and dying people in the hospital.

We love you and thank you for all you do. Easter should be the peak number and should start to go down. and hopefully the US death toll from kovid 19 has surpassed 100. 100,000 lives have now been lost to this virus here in the US alone, each leaving behind a family that will never be whole again . The president recognized that milestone before we even arrived. After all, it was the president who prompted him to lower the flag to half-mast. He did it for several days, I mean, it was an acknowledgment that that number was getting close and he acknowledged it in a tweet this morning.

The Boston Marathon was postponed. Today we will end our relationship with the world health organization and redirect those funds to other urgent and deserving public health needs around the world. The tributes being poured out this morning for Nick Cordero, the Broadway star who has lost a three-month battle against the coronavirus. He died over the weekend, he was only 41 years old. We urge President Trump and Congress to show the leadership necessary to protect the lives of our nurses and get us the PPE and other protections we need to do our jobs safely. The official Kovid 19 death toll in the United States has now surpassed 200,000, the most of any nation, according to Johns Hopkins University, the country's largest public school system says it is canceling in-person learning, We need to close our schools for the next few days, no one is happy with this decision.

That President Trump contracted the virus not only raised concern among many Americans but also around the world. Someone is supposed to feel comfortable voting when this line wraps around the entire building and there's maybe three feet of distance between everyone. CBS news projects that Joe Biden has been elected the 46th president of the United States, our work begins with the control of more than a million cases in Texas, that is more than the country of Italy. Breaking news because tonight the FDA authorized the emergency use of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine, a historic and hopeful milestone in In the midst of a terrible pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University, the coronavirus has killed more than 300,000 people in the United States.

Now, 52-year-old ICU nurse Sandra Lindsey has become one of the first people in the country outside of clinical trials to receive the coveted vaccine. The FDA has issued an emergency use approval for the vaccine. Moderna's coronavirus, now the second to be approved in the United States. I am doing this to show that people should be prepared when the vaccine is available to the nurse or doctor. We're ready to inject Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, that was easy. Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow died last night from coveting 19 complications, according to Balotopia. Lutlow is the first elected federal official to die from the coronavirus.

The coronavirus death toll in the United States has surpassed 400,000. Just one day before a new administration takes office, countries around the world are battling dangerous surges and trying to get vaccines into people's arms as quickly as possible, new variants of the disease are not They have done more than complicate the situation. The bells of Washington National Cathedral ring. it is said to speak 500 times once for every thousand lives lost to the virus president biden is issuing a presidential proclamation ordering flags to be lowered to half-staff for five days this nation will smile again this nation will once again know sunny days this nation will know joy again We really can't claim victory yet in light of the contagious variant uh b1351 south africa has been added to the restricted list international travelers to the united states must present proof of a negative test within three days to the airlines before departure.

The third vaccine approved this weekend is about to ship behind me. You see a fleet of UPS planes among those ready to distribute this Johnson and Johnson vaccine across the country. The CDC is updating our guidance for fully vaccinated people. Anyone who is fully vaccinated can participate indoors and outdoors. large or small activities without wearing a mask or physical distancing Faking vaccination cards is a growing scam that doesn't seem too complicated to replicate or make look real at a time when millions are traveling for spring break wallenski and president biden they are discouraging non-essential travel the president is once again asking mayors and governors to reinstate mass mandates please this is not politics reinstate the mandate if it disappoints you our summer of freedom may be in jeopardy as the variant delta spread across the US, with cases now nearly doubling every two weeks, it looks like it could be even more serious in making people sick.

It took just 15 months for the coronavirus to kill more than 600,000 people here in the United States. It is the highest official death toll in the world. Hospitals are running out of intensive care beds because the delta variant is spreading rapidly throughout the country and around the world. Florida has become the new epicenter of the coronavirus which is worrying because it is clearly spreading more efficiently than what we have normally been dealing with. pressing the pentagon to require all military members to get vaccinated, we are seeing an increase in cases, an increase in hospitalizations across the force, as we are in the country and the delta variant is a factor in the fact that In the last three weeks more than fifty thousand Texas students tested positive for Covet at school and sad news from Florida CBS News has confirmed that in the Miami-Dade school district 13 employees have died of Covid since the start of the school year, all of them They were not vaccinated President Biden will receive his Copic 19 booster dose The president's third dose is in line with the new recommendations of the CDC and the FDA The country reported more than seven hundred thousand

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from the virus The world lost one of the leaders largest we've ever witnessed, frankly, there's no replacing it Columbus Power officials say both a natural origin and a lab leak in Wuhan are possible causes for how the virus first infected humans.

Workers at companies with more than 100 people must be fully vaccinated by January 4 or be subject to weekly cova testing that the FDA has conducted. A go-ahead for millions more Americans to increase their protection against Kovad by authorizing booster shots from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson. The United States allows fully vaccinated international visitors to make non-essential visits with proof of vaccination. This relaxed rule applies to those who enter. by land or ferry, border crossing or by air cbs news has learned that the first known american patient of omicron traveled through here san francisco international airport omicron is almost two and a half times more likely to reinfect people who previously had

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, Experts say the 19 cases of Kova continue to increase in the coming weeks of this winter, so we must be prepared.

The United States passed 800,000

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almost two years into the pandemic. The FDA authorized vaccine boosters for children ages 12 to 15. Now each person can request up to four free tests per residential address covatests.gov website according to johns hopkins university more than 900,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus so far parents of children under five will have to wait even longer for get the

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vaccine you all know we are exhausted to several different degrees, the fda did not consult with its vaccine advisory committee before authorizing a second pfizer booster in modern for people 50 and older to combat the rise in infections.

The CDC is planning to extend a massive federal requirement on transportation, meaning planes and trains, through May 3. Vice President Harris had just arrived at the White House for a meeting with the President Tuesday morning when a routine test of covid tested positive modern is seeking emergency use authorization for a vaccine against covid19 for use in young children from six months to less than six years a decision is expected sometime in June we have had alpha beta delta omicron ba2 ba4 bva5 we are no longer in that fulminant acute phase that does not mean that the pandemic has ended, much less has it ended