流感的大流行新型冠状病毒据报道，目前全球已有超过9420万人感染，其中超过200万人死亡实时数据由约翰·霍普金斯大学系统科学与工程中心编辑。
威廉王子兜售疫苗，敦促英国效仿祖父母的做法
威廉王子在周六晚上发布在肯辛顿皇家医院推特账户上的一段视频中，支持英国卫生机构英国国民健康服务体系(NHS)提供新冠肺炎疫苗的努力。
该视频包括几名卫生保健专业人员与剑桥公爵一起打电话给Zoom，谈论分发和交付疫苗。
“这是因为我们有世界领先的国民健康保险制度，这是因为我们有合适的人，合适的研究和开发，”威廉在视频中说。
威廉还鼓励人们在符合条件时接种疫苗，并指出他的“祖父母”——伊丽莎白女王和菲利普亲王——已经接种了疫苗。王宫上周说，94岁的伊丽莎白和99岁的菲利普，接种了疫苗。
“我的祖父母已经接种了疫苗，我为此感到非常自豪，”他在视频中说。“所以每个人都接种疫苗是非常重要的。”
洛杉矶县有100万病例，是英国第一个变种
洛杉矶县重灾区在该国目前，周六宣布已经越过100万新冠肺炎确诊病例。
自大流行开始以来，该县已发现1003923例病例，是该国第一个突破这一大关的县。除了加利福尼亚，只有四个州达到了这个可耻的总数。周六，该县宣布了253例新死亡病例和14669例新病例。
新冠肺炎所在的洛杉矶县目前有7597人住院，比几天前的7900人略有下降。
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随着冠状病毒疾病的传播，急救医疗队运送病人
同样令人担忧的是，该县发现了首例所谓的英国变体星期六。卫生部说，该病例是在一名男子身上发现的，他最近在洛杉矶，但后来去了俄勒冈州，在那里他被隔离。
公共卫生主任芭芭拉·费勒博士说:“英国变异体在洛杉矶县的存在令人担忧，因为我们的医疗保健系统已经严重紧张，目前有7500多人住院。”“这种传染性更强的变种使感染更容易在工地、商店和我们的家中传播。”
在加利福尼亚已经发现了40例变异体，官方称之为B.1.1.7变异体。
美国食品和药物管理局对新冠肺炎疫苗接种后挪威死亡报告的评论
据美联社报道，挪威药品管理局周四报告称，共有29人出现副作用，其中13人死亡。所有死亡都发生在养老院的病人中，而且都是80岁以上的老人。
美国食品和药物管理局的一名发言人周六就挪威的死亡事件告诉美国广播公司新闻:“到目前为止，在新冠肺炎授权疫苗的管理下，我们在美国没有看到任何新的安全信号，因此目前不打算做出任何改变。”
这位发言人说，在美国，美国食品和药物管理局和疾病控制和预防中心“迅速和严格地调查”任何接种疫苗后死亡的报告。
德克萨斯州报道第三例英国变异
周六上午，达拉斯县卫生和公众服务部在一份声明中报告说，得克萨斯州的第三例新冠肺炎变异体B.1.1.7，与在英国发现的变异体相同，已在达拉斯被发现。
“此人是达拉斯市的一名20多岁的男性居民，最近没有去过美国以外的地方。本周的基因测序结果显示，感染是由变异体引起的。这是达拉斯县居民中第一例已知的这种变异。个体稳定，处于隔离状态。该声明称:“DCHHS流行病学家参与了调查，以确定和通知密切接触者。
Coronavirus live updates: LA becomes 1st county to cross 1 million cases
A pandemic of thenovel coronavirushas now infected more than 94.2 million people worldwide and killed over 2 million of them, according toreal-time datacompiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Prince William touts vaccine, urges UK to follow grandparents' lead
Prince William championed the effort of the NHS, the U.K.'s health agency, in delivering the COVID-19 vaccine in a video posted to Kensington Royal's Twitter account Saturday night.
The video included several health care professionals on a Zoom call, along with the Duke of Cambridge, talking about distributing and delivering the vaccine.
"This is because we have a world-leading NHS, this is because we have the right people, the right research and development here," William says in the video.
William also encourages people to get the vaccine when they are eligible, noting his "grandparents" -- Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip -- got the vaccine already. The palace said last week that Elizabeth, 94, and Philip, 99,had gotten the vaccine.
"My grandparents have had the vaccine and I'm very proud of them for doing that," he says in the video. "So it's really important that everyone gets their vaccine."
LA County crosses 1 million cases, identifies 1st UK variant
Los Angeles County, thehardest hit regionin the country right now, announced it has crossed 1 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday.
The county has identified 1,003,923 cases since the start of the pandemic -- the first county in the country to cross the mark. Only four states outside of California have met that ignominious total. The county announced 253 new deaths and 14,669 new cases on Saturday.
There are currently 7,597 people hospitalized in LA County with COVID-19 -- down slightly from days earlier when the total crossed 7,900.
Also of concern, the county identified its first case ofthe so-called U.K. varianton Saturday. The case was discovered in a man who was recently in LA, but has since traveled to Oregon, where he is isolating, the health department said.
"The presence of the U.K. variant in Los Angeles County is troubling, as our healthcare system is already severely strained with more than 7,500 people currently hospitalized," said Dr. Barbara Ferrer, director of public health. "This more contagious variant makes it easier for infections to spread at worksites, at stores, and in our homes."
There had already been 40 cases of the variant, officially called the B.1.1.7 variant, detected in California.
FDA comments on reports of deaths in Norway following COVID-19 vaccination
The Norwegian Medicines Agency on Thursday reported a total of 29 people had suffered side effects, 13 of them fatal, according to The Associated Press. All the deaths occurred among patients in nursing homes and all were over the age of 80.
A spokesperson from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told ABC News on Saturday regarding the deaths in Norway: "To date, we have not seen any new safety signals In the U.S. following administration of either authorized COVID-19 vaccine, and therefore do not currently plan to make any changes."
In the U.S. any reports of death following vaccination are "promptly and rigorously investigated" by the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the spokesperson said.
Texas reports 3rd case of UK variant
Texas' third case of the COVID-19 variant, B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the United Kingdom, has been found in Dallas, Dallas County Health and Human Services reported in a statement Saturday morning.
"The individual is a male resident of the City of Dallas in his 20’s, with no recent history of travel outside of the United States. Results of genetic sequencing this week showed that the infection was caused by the variant. This is the first known case of this variant in a Dallas County resident. The individual is stable and is in isolation. DCHHS epidemiologists are involved with the investigation in identifying and notifying close contacts," the statement read.
