Trump Officials Push Ambitious Vaccine Timeline as California Locks Down

📆 12/7/2020 3:00 PM
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WASHINGTON -- The Trump administration's top health officials outlined an ambitious timetable Sunday for distributing the first coronavirus vaccinations to as many as 24 million people by mid-January, even as the accelerating toll of the pandemic filled more hospital beds across the United States and prompted new shutdown orders in much of California.After criticism from President-elect Joe Biden that the administration had 'no detailed' vaccine distribution plan, Moncef Slaoui, the chief science adviser of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration's vaccine development program, said all residents of long-term care facilities and health workers could receive the first round of vaccinations by mid-January.A vaccine manufactured by Pfizer could be available by the end of the week, after anticipated approval by the Food and Drug Administration, Slaoui said on CNN's 'State of the Union' on Sunday. Alex M. Azar II, the secretary of health and human services, was just as optimistic.Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times'Really within days,' Azar said on 'Fox News Sunday.' 'Within 24 hours of FDA green lighting with authorization, we'll ship to all of the states and territories that we work with. And within hours, they can be vaccinating.'But the hopeful comments were met with some skepticism as they played out against an increasingly desperate backdrop, with the virus surging across the country and packing hospitals to near capacity with critically ill patients. On Friday, more than 229,000 new cases were reported in the United States, a record, and several states hit new daily highs over the weekend. More than 101,000 COVID-19 patients are in hospitals now, double the number from just a month ago.Health experts said the timeline sketched out by Slaoui and Azar was uncompromising and did not account for the possibility of delay during the many steps from vaccine manufacture to distribution at state and local levels, not to mention the hesitancy th

Trump is reportedly considering breaking democratic tradition by boycotting Joe Biden's inauguration and staging a rally instead.Tensions between the United States and Iran remain high, and the future of the relationship between the two countries is unclear amid the presidential transition, but things are looking calm at sea for the moment, The Associated Press reports.Vice Adm. Sam Paparo, the top U.S.

The world is eagerly awaiting the release of several COVID-19 vaccines, but Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is not. “I’m not going to take it. It’s my right,” he said in a Nov. 26 social media broadcast. Bolsonaro, who came down with COVID-19 in July, has also criticized face masks. He and his more faithful supporters oppose any suggestion of mandatory coronavirus vaccinations. Vaccine resistance has a long history in Brazil.

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🚨 COVID19 in the U.S 🔴 Republicans / GOP Control the U.S Senate 🔴 Donald J. Trump in the White House 🗓️ Monday, December 07, 2020 ⏲️ 3:34 PM EST 🇺🇸 U.S. DEATHS = 289,882 🔥🔥🔥🔥 🇺🇸 U.S. INFECTIONS = 15,282,544 🔥🔥🔥🔥 🖥️ | CDCgov HHSgov

I'm battling covid19 for the 2nd time..I'm in need of the stimulus check... Democrats and Republicans need to think about the people...but the rich rarely care about the common people.

California locks down for politics, lockdowns and masks have prevented nothing and prolonged the pain

They can do what they want but I will avail myself of anything this administration pushes. I will not take any vaccine until Biden and Fauci say so. GOP HHSGov

CA the Nanny state

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