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Former Top Trump Official Recounts Early Days of the Pandemic Get the latest on need-to-know topics for federal employees delivered to your inbox. email Joe Grogan was Domestic Policy Council director and a White House COVID task force member. Tensions between career and political officials during the Trump administration and the propensity of both to leak damaging information came to a head at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic last year, compounding the former administration’s chal...

March 16, 2021, 8:33 p.m. ETMarch 16, 2021, 8:33 p.m. ET A protest over masks and Covid vaccines outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta on Saturday.Credit...Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images Former President Donald J. Trump recommended in a nationally televised interview on Tuesday evening that Americans who are reluctant to be vaccinated against the coronavirus should go ahead with inoculations. Mr. Trump and his wife, Melania, were vaccinated in January. An...

Covid-19: Moderna Begins Testing Its Vaccine in Children Last Updated March 21, 2021, 10:46 a.m. ETMarch 21, 2021, 10:46 a.m. ET Europe’s drug regulator is pushing back on fears about the AstraZeneca vaccine. And more than a dozen countries have suspended the use of the vaccine, although Australia, Britain and Thailand are moving ahead with it. Brittany Siguenza, 5, watching her mother receive a dose of the Moderna vaccine in Revere, Mass., on Friday.Credit...CJ Gunther/EPA, via Shutterstock...

As President Biden pushes to vaccinate as many Americans as possible, he faces deep skepticism among many Republicans, a group especially challenging for him to persuade.

All hands on deck.

Biden readies campaign to combat vaccine skeptics POLITICO 3/16/2021 By Erin Banco and Adam Cancryn © Patrick Semansky/AP Photo President Joe Biden watches as a pharmacist prepares a vaccine at a Covid-19 vaccination site. The White House is poised to launch a sweeping new campaign to reduce vaccine hesitancy as the Biden administration barrels ahead with plans to give every American access to Covid shots by May 1, according to three senior officials familiar with the matte...

MEDIA WATCH--In hopes of spurring wary Americans to get the COVID vaccine, two national ad campaigns launched Thursday starring all four former presidents - Obama, Bush, Clinton, Carter - who along with their wives urge people, "The science is clear...This is our shot...Now its up to you." A joint project of the Covid Collaborative and the Ad Council, a nonprofit that produces PSAs, the ads feature a one-minute spot showing them all being vaccinated, and a 30-second one of Clinton, Bush and Oba...

Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and their respective former first ladies are part of a newly released ad campaign urging Americans to get the coronavirus vaccine when it is their turn, a push that is aimed squarely at combating vaccine skepticism. There are two ads in the campaign: a minute-long, more personal spot that shows the four former presidents and former first ladies receiving their vaccines, and another that features Clinton, Bush and Obama ...

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Four former presidents ask Americans to get vaccinated as soon as Covid-19 doses are available to them, but one ex-president chose not to be part of the campaign.