流感的大流行新型冠状病毒据报道，目前全球已有超过9920万人感染，其中210万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。
全美住院人数下降
根据COVID跟踪项目，美国新冠肺炎的住院率继续呈下降趋势。
有109936人因病毒住院，根据跟踪项目。
根据健康数据，45个州的平均住院天数至少下降了10%。
福奇说，羊群免疫力可能在秋天达到
安东尼·福奇博士在接受美国广播公司新闻直播采访时谈到了疫苗推出的最新进展。
福奇说，他相信疫苗将从4月份开始向每个人提供，但直到秋天，每个人都真正得到了注射。
福奇告诉美国广播公司新闻直播，“在你真正获得我认为的群体免疫水平之前，需要几个月的时间——5月、6月、7月、8月——这是一个估计，但我认为这是一个合理的估计，即让70%到85%的人口接种疫苗。”
福奇说，该时间表没有考虑强生公司和阿斯利康公司开发的冠状病毒疫苗的未来批准。
他说:“我认为，如果J&J或(阿斯利康)产品的功效足够好，能够融入其中，这将非常有助于比我们想象的更快地完成工作。”。
福奇还透露了去年他接触到邮件中的粉末物质的事件。粉末后来被认为是良性的，但只是在他的安全细节之后，但在危险品服上，他被喷了下来。
“当我的孩子们发现这件事的时候，他们吓坏了，我的妻子也吓坏了，”福奇说。“我的意思是，我已经决定我正在做的事情可能是危险的，但就是这样，我选择了它。我的孩子没有选择。”
联邦应急管理局加强努力加快疫苗接种
联邦应急管理局周一宣布，它将在未来的疫苗推广中发挥更大的作用。
将成立一个机构间工作队来协调联邦对冠状病毒的反应。据FEMA称，该工作组将“开发数据仪表板来跟踪人员流动和疫苗分发”。
联邦应急管理局以前在降低国家需求和管理供应链问题方面发挥了支持作用。
联邦应急管理局还将建立联邦管理的疫苗接种中心。该机构表示，更多关于这些中心的细节将在未来几周内公布。
该机构还宣布，将退还各州使用国民警卫队应对这一流行病的费用。
美国发现首例巴西变种
明尼苏达州卫生官员周一宣布，他们在美国记录了首例巴西冠状病毒变异体
根据明尼苏达州卫生部的说法，这位住在双子城市区的患者在1月份的第一周生病之前曾去过巴西。标本采集于1月9日。
卫生部在一份声明中说:“新的实验室信息显示该病例是巴西P1变异体，MDH流行病学家正在重新采访该患者，以获得关于疾病、旅行和接触的更多细节。”。
官员们警告说，“虽然这种变异被认为比导致新冠肺炎病的最初9种病毒更容易传播，但尚不清楚这种变异是否会导致更严重的疾病。”
Coronavirus live updates: 1st case of Brazil variant detected in US
A pandemic of thenovel coronavirushas now infected more than 99.2 million people worldwide and killed over 2.1 million of them, according toreal-time datacompiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
Hospitalizations decreasing across US
U.S. COVID-19 hospitalizations continue to show a downward trend, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
There are 109,936 people hospitalized with the virus,according to the tracking project.
Forty-five states saw their seven-day average for hospitalizations drop by at least 10%, according to the health data.
Fauci says herd immunity could be reached by fall
Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke about the latest updates on vaccine rollout during an interview on ABC News Live.
Fauci said that he believes the vaccine will be available to everyone beginning in April, but it won't be until the fall that everyone has actually gotten their shot in the arm.
"It will take several months-May, June, July, August- before you really get what I would consider the herd immunity level, which is an estimate, but I think it's a reasonable estimate, namely getting 70 to 85% of the population vaccinated," Fauci told ABC News Live.
Fauci said that the timeline is not considering a future approval of coronavirus vaccines developed by Johnson & Johnson and AstraZeneca.
"I think if the J&J or the [AstraZeneca] product comes through with an efficacy that's good enough to be able to be in the mix, that will be very helpful to get things done even sooner than we thought," he said.
Fauci also opened up about an incident where he was exposed to a powder substance that was in his mail last year. The powder was later deemed benign, but only after his security detail but on hazmat suits and sprayed him down.
"It frightened the heck out of my children when they found out about it and my wife too," Fauci said. "I mean, I've decided I'm doing something that might be dangerous but that's it, I chose it. My children did not choose that."
FEMA bolsters efforts to speed up vaccinations
Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Monday it would be taking a much bigger role in vaccine rollout going forward.
An inter-agency task force will be established to coordinate the federal response to the coronavirus. The task force will be "developing data dashboards to track personnel movement and vaccine distribution," according to FEMA.
FEMA previously played a supporting role in running down state needs and managing supply chain issues.
FEMA will also set up federally administered vaccination centers. More details on the centers will be made available in the coming weeks, the agency said.
The agency also announced it would refund the money states spent to use their National Guard troops to respond to the pandemic.
1st case of Brazil variant detected in US
Health officials in Minnesota announced Monday they have recorded the first instance of the Brazilian coronavirus variant in the U.S.
The patient, who lives in the Twin Cities metro area, had traveled to Brazil before becoming ill during the first week of January, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. The specimen was collected Jan. 9.
"With the new lab information showing the case to be the Brazil P.1 variant, MDH epidemiologists are re-interviewing the person to obtain more details about the illness, travel and contacts," the health department said in a statement.
Officials warned that "while this variant is thought to be more transmissible than the initial 9 strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, it is not yet known whether the variant causes more severe illness."
