Nov 04, 2021, 11:51 AM EDT
NYC kids can get $100 for vaccine at city-run site
New York City kids ages 5 to 11 can get $100 for getting vaccinated at a city-run site, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced.
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COVID-19 updates: 70% of American adults fully vaccinated
More than 80% of adults have at least one dose, CDC says.
Last Updated: November 8, 2021, 5:52 AM EST
As the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe, more than 5 million people have died from the disease worldwide, including over 752,000 Americans, according to real-time data compiled by Johns Hopkins University's Center for Systems Science and Engineering.
Just 68% of Americans ages 12 and up are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Nov 04, 2021, 10:00 AM EDT
UK authorizes Merck's COVID treatment
The United Kingdom has authorized Merck's COVID-19 treatment, becoming the first country in the world to do so.
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Clinical studies suggest Merck's COVID-19 pill, molnupiravir, may reduce the ability of the virus to multiply in the body, thereby preventing hospitalization or death in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19.
The UK's Medicines + Healthcare products Regulatory Agency said the antiviral drug was found to be safe and effective following a stringent review of the available evidence.
-ABC News' Christine Theodorou
Nov 04, 2021, 8:45 AM EDT
Majority of US workers to fall under vaccine mandate on Jan. 4
Nearly 100 million U.S. workers will be required to get the COVID vaccine by Jan. 4, with some workers allowed to test weekly instead, under sweeping federal rules released Thursday by the Biden administration that identifies COVID-19 as an occupational hazard.
The regulations are aimed at health care workers and businesses with 100 or more employees, covering two-thirds of the nation’s workforce. Businesses that don’t comply could be fined $14,000 per infraction and hospitals could lose access to Medicare and Medicaid dollars.
Biden’s plan also gives federal contractors an extra month to comply, sliding a previous Dec. 8 deadline set by the administration. Federal workers are still required to be vaccinated by Nov. 22.
-ABC News' Anne Flaherty
Nov 03, 2021, 3:11 PM EDT
White House says central vaccine website will be live for kids on Friday
Vaccines.gov is not yet live with appointments for children, but White House COVID-19 coordinator Jeff Zients says the site will be up and running Friday.
"You need to get the vaccines to those sites," he said at a Wednesday White House briefing. "Over the next 24 hours alone there will be millions more doses in the air and on trucks heading to cities and towns across the country. From Bar Harbor, Maine, to Anchorage, Alaska, to San Juan, Puerto Rico. Packing and shipping will continue over the weekend and into next week, with doses arriving at thousands of vaccination sites in every state, tribe and territory."
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CVS said it will offer the pediatric vaccine at "nearly 1,700" pharmacy locations across 46 states, Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., beginning Nov. 7.
Parents can start scheduling CVS appointments online now.
-ABC News' Cheyenne Haslett
