House panel subpoenas HHS Sec. Azar and CDC s Redfield: Extensive political meddling in COVID-19 policies alleged Courtney Subramanian, USA TODAY
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WASHINGTON – Two top health officials in the Trump administration were subpoenaed on Monday after a congressional investigation found political meddling at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over the coronavirus crisis was far more extensive and dangerous than previously known.
The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, led by Democratic Majority Whip James Clyburn, issued subpoenas to CDC Director Robert Redfield and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar to produce a full set of records the panel had previously asked for in September by Dec. 30.
Are they cutting in line to prove the vaccine is safe or to save themselves? Petula Dvorak
Replay Video Anyone else getting a 1912 vibe from all this vaccine theater in Congress? Like Lifeboat No. 1 paddling away from the Titanic that cold night, carrying five tuxedoed first-class passengers and seven crew members away from hundreds of dying third-classers, members of Congress are smiling for cameras as they get their coronavirus vaccine shots, while one American dies of the virus every minute. “It’s ridiculous that Congress is cutting in line ahead of folks in Long Term Care,” New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) tweeted as lawmakers began getting the vaccine. “I’ll be the first in line to get the vaccine when it’s my turn.”
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US President-elect Joe Biden receives his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine at ChristianaCare Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware on December 21, 2020, from nurse practitioner Tabe Mase. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)
NEWARK (AP) US President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe.
The president-elect took a dose of Pfizer vaccine at a hospital not far from his Delaware home, hours after his wife, Jill Biden, did the same. The injections came the same day that a second vaccine, produced by Moderna, will start arriving in states. It joins Pfizer’s in the nation’s arsenal against the COVID-19 pandemic, which has now killed more than 317,000 people in the United States and upended life around the globe.
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US President-elect Joe Biden arrives at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, December 17, 2020. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
WASHINGTON (AP) US President-elect Joe Biden will receive his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe.
Monday’s event will come the same day that a second vaccine, produced by Moderna, will start arriving in states, joining Pfizer’s in the nation’s arsenal against the COVID-19 pandemic, which has now killed more than 317,000 people in the United States and upended life around the globe.
2020/12/21 03:29 Vice President Mike Pence receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Fri. Vice President Mike Pence receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in Washington. Karen Pence, and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams also participated. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot by Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician Congress of th. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., receives a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot by Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician Congress of the United States in Washington, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times via AP, Pool)