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Coronavirus update: Mutant virus confirmed in Colorado, U.K. approves AstraZeneca vaccine
A Republican elected to Congress has died of COVID-19 12/30/2020
Total U.S. confirmed cases: 19,551,716 (19,334,975 )
Total U.S. deaths: 339,360 (335,623)
Total global cases: 82,237,082 (81,508,329)
Total global deaths: 1,796,768 (1,779,189)
Mutant virus found in Colorado
It’s here. The new strain of the coronavirus (COVID-19), which showed up first in the U.K., has been confirmed to be present in the U.S.
Specifically, the mutant virus has been found in Colorado, infecting a “male in his 20s.” Significantly, officials say the patent had no recent travel history suggesting there are likely other cases of the virus. Officials say a co-worker of the patient may also have the variant.
After a year of innumerable twists and turns in US politics, 2021 is shaping up to be a year of significant change.
President Donald Trump will exit the White House on January 20 and leave behind a Republican Party searching for a way forward with or without him as the centre of attention.
President-elect Joe Biden will re-enter a Washington political scene that he hopes to tame after years of intense polarization and will be confronted not only by resistance from Republicans but from within his own party as well.
Here are four things to watch as a new year in US politics commences:
WASHINGTON They say the personal is political. The political is also personal.
Spending hours under the Capitol dome as Congress negotiated a COVID-19 relief package, I saw personalities break through the hot air.
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., literally walked in circles around the rotunda, carrying on a cellphone conversation among the statues.
That summed up the mood in the House and Senate chambers. Christmas was coming, with lawmakers stressed and pressed like you and me. Right up to the Monday midnight deadline, they passed an emergency $900 billion bill. At last.
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer called it a “shot in the arm,” perhaps to link it to the new vaccine. He told me he “defanged” a late move to curb Federal Reserve emergency loans.