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30 Dec 2020 / 14:43 H.
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By Trevor Hunnicutt and Keith Coffman
WILMINGTON, Del./DENVER, Dec 29 (Reuters) - The first known U.S. case of a highly infectious coronavirus variant discovered in Britain was detected in Colorado on Tuesday as President-elect Joe Biden warned it could take years for most Americans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at current distribution rates.
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.
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Fears grow as Biden offers gloomy inoculation outlook By Reuters Published: Dec 30, 2020 06:48 PM
A healthcare worker wheels a stretcher into the emergency room at Lenox Health Greenwich Village during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York, the United States, May 26, 2020. (Photo by Michael Nagle/Xinhua)
The first known US case of a highly infectious coronavirus variant discovered in Britain was detected in Colorado on Tuesday as US President-elect Joe Biden warned it could take years for most Americans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at current distribution rates.
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 January 20, while putting Congress on notice that he wants to significantly increase spending to expedite vaccine distribution, expand COVID-19 testing and help reopen shuttered schools.
After a volatile 12 months, hopes grow for more rational US-China relations
There is no simple way to sum up relations between China and the United States in 2020.
It is safe to say they have been tumultuous, fraught with inflammatory rhetoric, and laden with back-and-forth sanctions.
But the relationship also holds hope.
The most consequential bilateral relationship in the world seems to have reached the bottom of the valley, from where every step to be taken may lead back to the mountain top, so hoped senior China hands in Washington and beyond, as they look at 2020 in retrospect.
The year started with a promising note for Beijing and Washington with the signing of a historic Phase One trade deal on Jan 15 that capped 18 months of conflict between the world s two largest economies.
Kamala Harris receives COVID-19 shot in bid to boost U.S. vaccine confidence
Sen. Harris, who is Black and Asian-American, will become the second high-profile person from an ethnic minority background to receive the vaccine after Surgeon General Jerome Adams on Dec. 18.
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David Brunnstrom and Lisa Lambert / Reuters | 1:20 pm, Dec. 29, 2020 ×
Vice President-elect Kamala Harris listens as U.S. President-elect Joe Biden announces their nominee for secretary of education, Miguel Cardona in Wilmington, Delaware, on Dec. 23. REUTERS/Leah Millis
WASHINGTON, Dec. 29 (Reuters) U.S. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris received a COVID-19 vaccination live on television on Tuesday, as the incoming Biden administration seeks to boost confidence in the inoculation even while warning it will be months before it is available to all.