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California Deaths Hit 50,000; NYC School Cases Low: Virus Update
A healthcare worker fills a syringe with a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine in Zipaquira, Colombia.
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President Joe Biden said the federal government will distribute Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine as fast as the company can produce it, if the shot is approved by the Food and Drug Administration. That approval is expected as early as Friday.
California became the first U.S. state to surpass 50,000 deaths from Covid-19 as a winter surge in cases prompted lockdowns across the state. New York City schools have a positive Covid-19 test rate of less than 1% as middle schools reopened to students for in-person instruction.