Covid live updates: U.S. hospitals fill with patients, U.K. variant confirmed in more states
A new record was set Thursday for both deaths and new cases of Covid-19 across the U.S. on Thursday.
The U.S. recorded more than 4,000 daily Covid-19 deaths for the first time Thursday, the highest one-day total since the pandemic began.
There was also a record number of cases, 268,883, showing that the national outlook is worsening by the day.
That news came as a new mutant variant of the disease first identified in the U.K., which has been shown to be more infectious, has been detected across the country including in Pennsylvania, Texas and Connecticut.
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The Associated Press
3h ago / 11: 19 AM UTC
Pfizer study suggests vaccine works against virus variant
New research suggests that Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in two highly contagious variants of the coronavirus that erupted in Britain and South Africa.
Most of the vaccines being rolled out around the world train the body to recognize that spike protein and fight it. Pfizer teamed with researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston for laboratory tests to see if the mutation affected its vaccine’s ability to do so.
They used blood samples from 20 people who received the vaccine, made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech, during a large study of the shots. Antibodies from those vaccine recipients successfully fended off the virus in lab dishes, according to the study posted late Thursday on an online site for researchers.
The study is preliminary and has not yet been reviewed by experts, a key step for medical research.
Colin Sheeley
3h ago / 11: 34 AM UTC
U.S. records more than 4,000 deaths in a single day
The U.S. reported more than 4,000 Covid-19 deaths Thursday, the most in a single day, according to an NBC News tally.
The exact number was 4,110 deaths, and there were 268,883 cases reported, breaking the record for both for the second consecutive day.
On Wednesday, the country set a near identical record of 268,840 cases and posted 3,920 deaths, the highest daily total before Thursday.
This week alone, 1,614,756 new cases and 19,230 deaths were logged.
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