COVID-19 updates: US has 1st day since November with fewer than 100K new cases

There are 93,536 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the United States, according to data compiled by The COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-run effort to track the U.S. outbreak.

The number represents a decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations nationwide over the last couple of weeks. The daily count reached as high as 130,000, data shows.

"Compared to last week, the number of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 is down by 10% or more in 38 states," The COVID Tracking Project said on Twitter Monday.

-ABC News' Gabriel Ware

New Jersey's six mass COVID-19 vaccination sites will be closed Tuesday due to a winter storm that's grounded planes and halted subways across the Northeast region. New Jersey health care providers will reach out via text, email or phone to reschedule canceled appointments, according to the governor's office.

COVID-19 vaccination sites in New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Philadelphia and parts of Washington, D.C., Maryland and Virginia were also affected by the snowstorm on Monday.

-ABC News' Joshua Hoyos contributed to this report.

South Africa's coronavirus czar lamented unequal COVID-19 vaccine distribution between rich and poor nations, calling it "disheartening," in an interview Monday with ABC News. "The part of it that is most distressing is the way in which vaccines are being unevenly distributed," said Salim Abdool Karim, chairman of the South African Ministerial Advisory Committee on COVID-19.

No single country can vaccinate its own population and think that it can stay safe while new virus variants emerge in parts of the world without vaccines, he explained. "That simply is a recipe for disaster."

Karim's comments follow similar criticism from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa last week, who accused wealthy nations of "hoarding" excess vaccine doses that they did not immediately need.

ABC News' James Longman contributed to this report.

Two new reports from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detail who received COVID-19 vaccines during the first month of the country's mass immunization program. Of the 13 million Americans who got at least one dose between Dec. 14 and Jan. 14, 63% were women and 55% were aged 55 or older, according to the reports, which were released Monday.

The new data revealed a troubling trend in nursing home settings. While nearly 78% of residents got at least one vaccine dose, only 38% of staff members got vaccinated, which suggests barriers to vaccination for staff that "need to be overcome," according to the CDC.

The racial breakdown of who got vaccinated is less clear. Since multiple jurisdictions aren't reporting a breakdown by race, there's missing data on about half of the people who were vaccinated. Based on the data that's currently available, 60% of those people who received vaccines were white, 12% were Hispanic and 5% were Black, the CDC reported.

As the vaccination rollout continues, "it is critical to ensure efficient and equitable administration to persons in each successive vaccine priority category, especially those at highest risk for infection and severe health outcomes," the CDC said.

ABC News' Sony Salzman contributed to this report.