The Biden administration’s White House COVID-19 task force held its first virtual briefing Wednesday, promoting its efforts to expedite vaccinations while warning that the nation could surpass 500,000 deaths within weeks.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the agency predicts 479,000 to 514,000 pandemic deaths will have been reported by Feb. 20. Almost 4,000 deaths and more than 140,000 new infections were reported Tuesday alone.
“Our case rates remain extraordinarily high and now is the time to remain vigilant,” she said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, reiterated that vaccines appear to be effective against emerging variants, adding that the U.S. is working with companies to develop new antibody treatments that will be effective as newer strains evolve.
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During that time, he has worked tirelessly to ensure there is little daylight between himself and Mr Trump. It s just the extent to which he has spent time in political hot spots, either in purple states that were hotly contested in last year’s presidential election or attending events that are clearly aimed at appeasing and sort of engaging in the care and feeding of Trump’s base,” Nick Schwellenbach, a senior investigator at the Project on Government Oversight in Washington, told
The National.
“It’s just been very unusual for a secretary of state to spend so much time on those kinds of things.”
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DOL Atty Fired After Claiming Trump Tie Quashed Oracle Suit
Law360 (January 11, 2021, 10:38 PM EST) U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia has fired a top DOL litigator who claimed the agency decided not to pursue its $400 million pay bias case against tech giant Oracle because the company is led by an ally of President Donald Trump, the litigator s whistleblower attorney said Monday.
Katz Marshall & Banks LLP partner Alexis Ronickher, who represents former DOL litigator Janet Herold, told Law360 that Scalia ordered Herold s termination last week, effective Monday. He took this action despite the U.S. Office of Special Counsel s ongoing investigation into the legality of the reassignment that led to the removal and in.