The global case tally for the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 climbed above 96.4million on Wednesday, and the U.S. death toll headed above 402,000 as President Joe Biden was inaugurated with plans to fully overhaul the U.S. approach to the pandemic.
“The Obama administration created the National Security Council’s Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense to look after the nation’s responses to pandemics,” Meekins wrote in a note to clients. “The Trump administration removed the Directorate in 2018 during an NSC reorganization. Biden has said that he plans to restore the Directorate.”Biden has pledged to implement a nationwide vaccination program that will relieve the burden on states and fight misinformation campaigns.
Meekins deems it “somewhat likely” that Biden will resume the holding of daily White House COVID briefings. See now:CDC officials say people with history of allergic reactions should be monitored after receiving a COVID-19 shot The vaccination drive has taken on a sense of new urgency since the emergence in the U.K, South Africa and Brazil of new variants of the virus that are understood to be up to 70% more infectious, although they do not seem to make people sicker.
• French health officials have issued a warning against people wearing homemade face masks as they offer less protection against new variants of the illness, the Guardian reported. The scientific committee, which reports to the French government, says Category 2 masks are unlikely to halt the spread of the new coronavirus strains from the U.K., Brazil and South Africa.
He needs to be thanking President Trump for even having the vaccine to distribute.
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