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FDA committee meets to consider boosters; Infections, quarantines are clearing Florida classrooms
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A federal advisory committee will decide Friday whether third shots of COVID-19 vaccines are safe and protective against infections.
At root is whether the extra shots are "luxuries" or an essential part of providing complete protection against the virus, presidential adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said this week. ...
Other developments include:
►Mississippi has surpassed New Jersey as the state with the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., with roughly 1 of every 320 Mississippians having succumbed to the coronavirus.
►More than a dozen Tennessee school districts are requiring masks despite Gov. Bill Lee's order allowing parents to opt their children out. Many of districts are in conservative counties where officials are begging families to comply so schools can keep kids in the classroom as cases surge.
►Two dozen Republican attorneys general threatened legal action Thursday over President Joe Biden's vaccine mandates set to affect about 100 million U.S. workers. The White House announced mandatory vaccines for employers with more than 100 employees, along with all federal workers.
Today's numbers: The U.S. has recorded more than 41.7 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 670,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University data. Global totals: More than 227.1 million cases and 4.6 million deaths. More than 180 million Americans — 54.2% of the population — have been fully vaccinated, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
-- Florida’s public schools have opened without requiring students, teachers and staff to mask up at the height of the delta variant surge. At the same time, those schools have suffered some dire coincidences.
As of this week, at least 31 classrooms and schools — including two entire school districts — have had to shut down due to the large number of students, teachers and staff quarantined because they were exposed to COVID-19. About 167,000 children under 16 have been infected with the coronavirus since Aug. 1, according to the Florida Department of Health.
During that same period, some 106,000 preK-12 students and teachers have been infected, and 196,450 students and staff have had to quarantine since Aug. 1, according to school district COVID-19 dashboards analyzed by the Florida Education Association. ...
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