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| Having administered at least one dose of vaccine to roughly 42.5% of its population, the United States on Monday announced plans to distribute up to 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to other countries as soon as it receives federal clearance in the coming months. |
| AstraZeneca's vaccine has not received emergency use authorization from U.S. health officials, but it is already in use in many other countries. |
| The plans to broadly ship out vaccine doses comes a day after the White House announced its intention to send resources to India, which is dealing with one of the worst COVID-19 surges the world has seen. |
| It's Monday, and this is Coronavirus Watch from the USA TODAY Network. Here's more news to know today, as of 2:30 p.m. EDT. |
| • | The University of California-San Francisco reported the first known case of a male in the U.S. developing a blood clot after receiving the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. More than a dozen previous cases involved women under 50. The potential side effects of the shot have shown to be extremely rare, and some states have already resumed administering it – including California and Florida. | | • | Millions of Americans appear to have skipped their second vaccine dose, which could highlight the importance of getting Johnson & Johnson's one-shot vaccine back in the fold. | | • | The first – and hopefully last – pandemic Oscars was largely a whiff, at least in terms of TV ratings. Sunday's 93rd annual Academy Awards plunged to 9.9 million viewers, according to preliminary Nielsen estimates. That's down 58% from last year's pre-pandemic 23.6 million viewers, then a record-low that was down by 6 million from 2019. | | • | Once the hot spot for the COVID-19 pandemic, a "reawakening" in New York City has tourists returning as restrictions ease. | |
| Tracking COVID-19 vaccine distribution by state: How many people have been vaccinated in the US? |
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| – Jay Cannon, USA TODAY Network, Wires Editor; @JayTCannon on Twitter |
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