We’ve been feeling a little brighter now that the first batch of authorized COVID-19 vaccines is being deployed in California. AdvertisementIn L.A. County, Keck Medicine of USC and USC Verdugo Hills Hospital are scheduled to receive about 2,500 vaccine doses between them this week. And the county’s number of COVID-19 patients in intensive care had risen to 319 as of Tuesday; a month ago, there were 85. Pfizer and German pharmaceutical company BioNTech said last week that data on their new COVID-19 vaccine were “unlawfully accessed” during a cyberattack on the European Medicines Agency’s servers. “There are two reasons that someone who receives a COVID-19 vaccine should still wear a mask and commit to social distancing,” Sala explained.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 17, 2020 03:00 UTC