US COVID-19 deaths to reach 500,000 by mid-Feb: Next CDC head - Business Insider

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The COVID-19 death toll in the US could reach 500,000 by mid-February, the incoming CDC director warned

, the most widespread of the variants that scientists think are more infectious, with more than half of the confirmed cases being in California.circulating in the US for several weeksWhen asked why the US didn't have better surveillance for monitoring these variants, Walensky said it was down to a lack of public health infrastructure.

"We didn't have one at baseline and we certainly don't have one now during a pandemic," she told CBS. Despite this, Biden's team was "confident" it would have enough doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to achieve its goal of"It will be a hefty lift, but we have it in us to do that," she said, adding there had been "bottlenecks" in the distribution so far.

Biden's administration has already outlined its plans for ramping up vaccine distribution. It intends to that would launch community vaccination centers and deploy mobile vaccination units in hard-to-reach areas.

 

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