流感的大流行新型肺炎现已造成全球906，000多人死亡。
超过2790万人遍布全球被诊断出患有新冠肺炎病，该病由新型呼吸道病毒，根据约翰·霍普金斯大学系统科学与工程中心汇编的数据。通过临床手段或实验室测试进行诊断的标准因国家而异。然而，由于检测短缺、许多未报告的病例以及怀疑一些国家政府隐瞒或淡化疫情范围，实际数字被认为要高得多。
自从1997年发现第一例病例以来中国12月，病毒已经迅速传播到除南极洲以外的所有大陆。
美国是受影响最严重的国家，有超过639万确诊病例至少191，612人死亡。
根据约翰霍普金斯大学的数据，加州是美国病例最多的州，确诊病例超过74.9万人。紧随其后的是德克萨斯州和佛罗里达州，分别有超过669，000例和超过654，000例。
世界卫生组织正在追踪近170种新冠肺炎候选疫苗，其中至少有6种处于关键的第三阶段试验。
9月11日，早上6:27
疾病预防控制中心发布新的新冠肺炎死亡预测
疾病控制和预防中心宣布了39个模型小组对未来四周全国新冠肺炎死亡人数的预测。
该中心表示，本周的全国预测显示，未来四周报告的新新冠肺炎死亡人数呈不确定趋势，并预测在截至10月3日的一周内，可能会报告3300至8000例新死亡。
疾病预防控制中心预测，到这一天，总共将有205，000到217，000名新冠肺炎人死亡。
9月11日，早上6:31
特朗普吹嘘成就，误导冠状病毒统计数据
美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)周四在新闻发布会上发表了一篇竞选式的演讲，列举了他认为的成就，同时似乎兜售误导性冠状病毒统计数据。
他还将自己对当前危机的处理与时任总统巴拉克奥巴马(Barack Obama)和乔拜登(Joe Biden)对2009年H1N1(即猪流感)大流行的处理进行了比较，他称之为灾难。
特朗普在浏览一系列旨在让美国看起来比其他国家更好的统计数据和数字时表示:“美国做得很好。”。
特朗普还指责拜登发起了一场运动，传播关于新冠肺炎疫苗的反vaxxer情绪，但没有提供任何证据支持这一说法。
特朗普说:“乔·拜登继续利用这一流行病获取政治利益。”“现在拜登发起了一场反对疫苗的公众运动，这太糟糕了，因为我们有一些难以置信的疫苗要来了。”
特朗普说:“与上周相比，死亡人数下降了20%。”。“它下降得非常快，非常快。”
这些数据并没有反映出劳动节报告被推迟的事实，卫生专家也没有暗示死亡人数正在“非常迅速”地减少。
9月11日，凌晨4:09
主要托运人被敦促“准备新冠肺炎疫苗运输”
国际航空运输协会(International Air Transport Association)表示，它敦促各国政府开始与行业利益相关者一起仔细规划，“以确保在新冠肺炎疫苗获得批准并可供分发时做好充分准备。”它还警告了空运疫苗时“潜在的严重容量限制”。
“安全运送新冠肺炎疫苗将是全球航空货运业本世纪的使命。但是没有周密的提前规划是不会发生的。现在是时候了，”国际航空运输协会总干事兼首席执行官亚历山大·德·朱尼亚克在一份声明中说。“我们敦促各国政府带头促进整个物流链的合作，以便设施、安全安排和边境程序为今后艰巨而复杂的任务做好准备。”
该协会承认，“向全世界有效输送数十亿剂疫苗”将涉及“极其复杂的后勤和规划障碍”。
该协会表示:“我们期待与政府、疫苗制造商和物流合作伙伴共同努力，确保在全球范围内高效推出安全、廉价的新冠肺炎疫苗。”。
9月11日，凌晨2:26
食品和药物管理局局长表示，他不会否决科学家关于疫苗的建议
美国食品和药物管理局局长斯蒂芬·哈恩周四重申，美国食品和药物管理局对新冠肺炎疫苗的任何决定都将基于临床试验的科学和数据。
哈恩说，美国食品和药物管理局生物制品研究中心的职业专家决定是否建议批准疫苗，他没有计划反驳他们。
“我可以告诉你，在这场流行病期间，在我担任专员的整个任期内，我没有推翻职业科学家在医疗产品上的决定，我现在也无意这样做，”他说，并补充说，“我们将独立地称之为球和罢工。”
他回应了美国食品和药物管理局将加快或减缓疫苗授权以影响选举的担忧。
“我们发现自己处于这样的境地，要么被指责走得太快或太慢，要么被指责做得太少或太多。哈恩说:“我想，如果我们听到双方的批评，我们可能是在正确的地方。“归根结底，对我们来说，这是关于风险效益计算的，尤其是在像新冠肺炎这样的大流行期间，我们确实需要对医疗产品采取行动，我们确实需要使用现有的数据。”
Coronavirus news: US daily death toll from COVID-19 shoots back up over 1,000
A pandemic of thenovel coronavirushas now killed more than 906,000 people worldwide.
Over 27.9 million peopleacross the globehave been diagnosed with COVID-19, the disease caused bythe new respiratory virus, according todata compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The criteria for diagnosis -- through clinical means or a lab test -- has varied from country-to-country. Still, the actual numbers are believed to be much higher due to testing shortages, many unreported cases and suspicions that some national governments are hiding or downplaying the scope of their outbreaks.
Since the first cases were detected inChinain December, the virus has rapidly spread to every continent except Antarctica.
The United States is the worst-affected country, with more than 6.39 million diagnosed cases andat least 191,612 deaths.
California has the most cases of any U.S. state, with more than 749,000 people diagnosed, according to Johns Hopkins data. California is followed by Texas and Florida, with over 669,000 cases and over 654,000 cases, respectively.
Nearly 170 vaccine candidates for COVID-19 are being tracked by the World Health Organization, at least six of which are in crucial phase three trials.
Here's how the news was developing Thursday. All times Eastern. Please refresh for updates.
Sep 11, 6:27 am
CDC issues new forecast for estimated COVID-19 deaths
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced forecasts of national COVID-19 deaths over the next four weeks from 39 modeling groups.
The center said this week’s national forecast indicates an uncertain trend in new COVID-19 deaths reported over the next four weeks and predicts that 3,300 to 8,000 new deaths will likely be reported during the week ending Oct. 3.
The CDC predicts that a total of 205,000 to 217,000 COVID-19 deaths will be reported by this date.
Sep 11, 6:31 am
Trump touts accomplishments, misleading coronavirus stats
President Donald Trump spent most of his opening remarks during a press briefing Thursday giving a campaign-style speech listing off what he views as accomplishments, while appearing to tout misleading coronavirus statistics.
He also compared his handling of the ongoing crisis to then-President Barack Obama and Joe Biden's handling of the H1N1, or swine flu, pandemic in 2009, which he called a disaster.
"The United States has done really well," Trump said as he ran through a series of statistics and numbers meant to make the U.S. look comparatively better than other countries.
Trump also accused Biden of launching a campaign to spread anti-vaxxer sentiments about a COVID-19 vaccine without providing any evidence to support the claim.
"Joe Biden continues to use the pandemic for political gain," Trump said. "Now Biden's launched a public campaign against the vaccine, which is so bad, because we have some vaccines coming that are incredible."
"Deaths declined by 20% compared to just last week," Trump said. "It's going down very rapidly, really rapidly."
This data does not reflect the fact that reporting over Labor Day was delayed and health experts have not signaled that deaths are decreasing "very rapidly."
Sep 11, 4:09 am
Major shippers urged to 'prepare for COVID-19 vaccine transport'
The International Air Transport Association said it urged governments to begin to carefully plan with industry stakeholders "to ensure full preparedness when vaccines for COVID-19 are approved and available for distribution." It also warned about "potentially severe capacity" constraints when transporting vaccines by air.
"Safely delivering COVID-19 vaccines will be the mission of the century for the global air cargo industry. But it won’t happen without careful advance planning. And the time for that is now," IATA Director General and CEO Alexandre de Juniac said in a statement. "We urge governments to take the lead in facilitating cooperation across the logistics chain so that the facilities, security arrangements and border processes are ready for the mammoth and complex task ahead."
The association acknowledged "delivering billions of doses of vaccine to the entire world efficiently" will involve "hugely complex logistical and programmatic obstacles."
"We look forward to working together with government, vaccine manufacturers and logistical partners to ensure an efficient global roll-out of a safe and affordable COVID-19 vaccine,” the association said.
Sep 11, 2:26 am
FDA chief says he will not overrule scientists' recommendation on vaccine
FDA Chief Stephen Hahn reiterated on Thursday that any FDA decision on a COVID-19 vaccine will be based on the science and data from clinical trials.
Hahn said the career experts in FDA's Center for Biologics Research make decisions on whether to recommend vaccines for approval and he has no plan to contradict them.
"I can tell you throughout this pandemic, throughout my tenure as commissioner, I have not reversed a decision by the career scientists on medical products and I have no intention of doing that now," he said, adding, "We will independently call the balls and strikes."
He responded to concerns the FDA would speed up or slow down vaccine authorizations to impact the election.
"[W]e find ourselves in the position that we're accused of either going too fast or too slow or doing too little or too much. And I suppose, where we land up is if we're hearing criticism from both sides, we're probably in the right place," Hahn said. "At the end of the day, for us, it's about the risk benefit calculus, particularly during a pandemic like COVID-19, and we do need to call the balls and strikes on medical products and we do need to use the available data."
