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11.35am GMT
Vivian Ho has interviewed Dr Richard Pan, who has experienced death threats and assault from anti-vaccine campaigners during his years-long attempts to improve access to vaccinations:
I was outraged, certainly, that people had tried to block other people from getting access to vaccines [at Dodger Stadium this weekend]. I think that event demonstrated a lie that anti-vaxxers often proclaim, that it’s about choice and freedom – yet here they were denying people their choice to get the vaccine and denying our community and our country the opportunity to be free from this terrible disease that has killed more people than world war two at this point.
Related: Lawmaker who faced anti-vax attack: ‘The movement is growing more violent’
11.31am GMT
Yesterday there were 114,437 new coronavirus cases and 3,330 deaths. The Johns Hopkins University figures put the total US caseload at 26,413,033, and the total death toll at 446,551. These numbers have been revised up with fresh data since the live blog started today.
The national number of hospitalizations fell again, to 92,880, and are at their lowest level since 28 November according to the Covid Tracking Project.
