Pentagon officials reportedly stunned as acting Defense secretary halts Biden transition briefings
Axios says a top Biden official wasn t aware of the order.
A senior Defense Department official told
Axios this was a simple delay of the last few scheduled meetings until after the new year, saying they had fewer than two dozen remaining meetings on the schedule today and next week and staff was overwhelmed by the number of meetings. The official added, With the holidays we are taking a knee for two weeks. We are still committed to a productive transition.
But
Axios writes that officials across the Defense Department were shocked by the move, which comes after President Trump delayed the official beginning of Biden s transition while refusing to accept the results of the 2020 presidential election. Read more at
Pelosi received the vaccine at noon on Friday, according to her spokesman. Brian Monahan, the Capitol s attending physician, personally administered the vaccine to the Speaker, who is second in the line of succession to the presidency and considered a priority for continuity of government operations. Today, with confidence in science & at the direction of the Office of the Attending Physician, I received the COVID-19 vaccine. As the vaccine is being distributed, we must all continue mask wearing, social distancing & other science-based steps to save lives & crush the virus, Pelosi tweeted alongside photos of Monahan giving her the vaccine shot.
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Photos: Pelosi, McConnell Receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on December 11 issued the first emergency use authorization for a COVID-19 vaccine to a drug produced by Pfizer and BioNTech. US health care workers began receiving the vaccine this week.
In addition to US health workers, senior US government officials have begun receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, with Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) receiving their first doses of the vaccine on Friday.
According to a report by The Hill, Pelosi received the vaccine at noon on Friday. The shot was personally administered by the Capitol’s attending physician, Brian Monahan.
A fifth of U.S. prisoners have contracted coronavirus. In some states, it s more than half.
COVID-19 is spreading uncontrolled across the U.S. In prisons, it s at least four times worse.
One in every 20 people in the U.S. has tested positive or COVID-19 over the past nine months, with a total of more than 17 million people infected so far. Meanwhile one in five people incarcerated in America, or more than 275,000 people, have tested positive, data collected by
The Associated Press reveals â and in states such as Arkansas and South Dakota, that proportion is more than half.
Prisons, where close quarters are standard, are natural hotbeds for COVID-19 â especially those that have allegedly maintained unsanitary conditions and refused to provide masks early on in the pandemic. Also problematic is that in some jails, when people get sick, not only are they not tested but they don t receive care, Homer Venters, the former chief medical officer at New York s Rikers Island j
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