Jesse Jackson, wife hospitalized with COVID-19
The civil rights pioneer was vaccinated in January.
The United States is facing a COVID-19 surge this summer as the more contagious delta variant spreads.
More than 628,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 while over 4.4 million people have died from the disease worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Just 59.9% of Americans ages 12 and up are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Treatment for severe COVID patients seeing global shortages
Less than two months after the Food and Drug Administration granted emergency authorization for the treatment Actemra for severely sick COVID-19 patients, there are already global shortages due to an "unprecedented surge in worldwide demand," the manufacturer, Roche, said.
Actemra helps fight the inflammatory immune reaction some COVID-19 patients have with severe infection.
Roche said employees have been "working around the clock" to boost production and distribution.
"Despite all these efforts, the unfortunate reality is that due to the unprecedented surge in worldwide demand -- with US demand spiking to well-beyond 400% of pre-COVID levels over the last two weeks alone -- we will experience shortages of Actemra/RoActemra globally over the weeks and months ahead," Roche said. "This is due to global manufacturing capacity limits, raw material supply constraints, the complex, labour-intensive process of manufacturing biologics and the dynamically evolving nature of the pandemic."
The World Health Organization added Actemra to its list of COVID-19 treatments in July following FDA authorization.
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Proof of vaccination required to attend CES 2022
The massive annual technology conference CES, taking place in Las Vegas in January 2022, will require proof of vaccination, the Consumer Technology Association said Tuesday.
"For those who may be unable to travel to Las Vegas, CTA will again create a digital event that will run in parallel with the in-person program," CTA said.
Biden administration ships 1st of 500 million vaccine doses to Rwanda
The Biden administration on Tuesday will ship the first 188,370 doses of a 500 million dose commitment of the Pfizer vaccine to Rwanda, according to a senior administration official. The 500 million dose pledge was announced at the G7 summit in June and the contract the U.S. negotiated with Pfizer identified late August as the goal for initial shipments.
The U.S. is also sending 300,000 additional U.S. surplus doses to Rwanda Tuesday, making this first total shipment 488,370. All the doses will be distributed through Covax, the World Health Organization's vaccine-sharing initiative.
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Chicago Marathon will require vaccination or negative COVID test
The 35,000 runners at this year's Chicago Marathon must provide proof of vaccination or a negative test administered within 72 hours.
The marathon is set to take place Sunday, Oct. 10.
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New Zealand confirms 1st case of delta variant in growing cluster
New Zealand's first instance of COVID-19 transmission in six months has been identified as the highly contagious delta variant.
"We are dealing with a delta variant," New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced during a press conference in Wellington on Wednesday. "Our case has originated in Australia."
The case, which was detected in the community on Tuesday, prompted New Zealand to immediately impose a nationwide lockdown. More community cases have emerged since then, with the cluster growing to 10 by Wednesday afternoon, according to data from New Zealand's Ministry of Health.
Ardern said genomic sequencing has linked the initial case to an outbreak of the delta variant in neighboring Australia's New South Wales state.
"Now, the job we have is to work through how and when it got here," she said.
It's the first time that the island nation of 5 million people has confirmed the presence of the delta variant, which was initially identified in India last October. At least 148 countries around the globe have reported cases of the delta variant, according to the World Health Organization.
It's also the first time in more than a year that New Zealand has had a snap level four lockdown, the highest level of restrictions.
In total, the country has reported 2,936 confirmed cases of COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, including 26 deaths, according to health ministry data.