The first known US case of a highly infectious coronavirus variant was detected in Colorado today, and President-elect Joe Biden says it could take years for most Americans to be vaccinated.
UK Covid-19 variant discovered in Colorado, US 3 min read
US President-elect, Joe Biden’s, prediction of a grim winter appeared aimed at lowering public expectations that the pandemic would be over soon after he takes office on Jan. 20, while putting Congress on notice that he wants to significantly increase spending to expedite vaccine distribution, expand COVID testing and help reopen shuttered schools.
Biden, a Democrat, said about 2 million people have received the initial dose of one of two newly approved two-dose vaccines, well short of the 20 million that outgoing Republican President Donald Trump had promised by year’s end.
“The effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should,” Biden said in Wilmington, Delaware. At the current rate, “it’s going to take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people.”
The first known U.S. case of a highly infectious coronavirus variant was detected in Colorado on Tuesday, and President-elect Joe Biden said that it could take years for most Americans to be vaccinated for the virus at current distribution rates.
December 29, 2020 5:20 PM by Wendy Parker
Lisa Cupid, Craig Owens and Flynn Broady headlined Democratic wins in countywide races.
The gains Cobb Democrats made in the last two election cycles
reached a power-shifting culmination in 2020, as incumbent Republicans holding countywide seats were swept out of office.
The Cobb Board of Commissioners will become all-female, and with a black Democratic majority headed by two-term commissioner Lisa Cupid, who ousted chairman Mike Boyce.
Cupid will be the first chairwoman and first black head of county government in Cobb’s history, as well as the first Democrat to hold the office since Ernest Barrett in 1984.