On Thursday, an FDA panel also recommended emergency authorization for Moderna’s vaccine.
“Under Operation Warp Speed, we are poised to have vaccine[s] for 20 million Americans before the end of December,” Mr. Pence said. “It is truly a medical miracle.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said earlier Friday they plan to roll out other leaders to receive vaccines in the coming weeks.
“We just want to make sure people know we have got supreme confidence in the process and confidence in the safety and efficacy of the vaccine,” Mr. Azar said on ABC’s “Good Morning America.” “We wouldn’t ask you to do something that we wouldn’t do.”
Dozens of progressive organizations will deliver a book to President-elect Joe Biden
The book contains 100 profiles of left-leaning foreign policy experts and potential positions they could fill.
The effort was led by Yasmine Taeb, a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, and Alex McCoy, the political director at Common Defense.
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Of the 100 people included in the Progressive Foreign Policy Talent Pipeline, about two-thirds are women or people of color, and the overriding qualifier was that none of the candidates have corporate ties or backgrounds.
The candidates generally advocate for foreign policy restraint and support cutting the budget at the Pentagon and pulling the U.S. out of foreign entanglements.
With each candidate comes a star-studded cast of campaigners. Mike Pence stumped for his fellow GOP members on Thursday and President Trumprallied in Valdosta earlier this month.
President-elect Joe Biden traveled to the state earlier this week, and Vice President-elect Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., is scheduled to appear at rallies on Monday.
The number of new voters was first reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution after it purchased a voter registration list from Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger s office.
More than half of the 75,858 on the list were under the age of 35. Some had just turned 18, and others were new Georgia residents.
Ms. Psaki said medical experts recommended that Mr. Biden and Ms. Harris get vaccinated separately, citing “security and medical protocols.”
“It is the recommendation that they did it separately and that they stagger the first doses,” she said.
Ms. Psaki said Rep. Cedric Richmond’s testing positive for the virus this week did not factor into the timing for Mr. Biden’s vaccination.
Mr. Richmond, a key Biden campaign adviser, tested positive after he and Mr. Biden were at the same event in Georgia on Tuesday. Mr. Biden tested negative Thursday.
Mr. Biden’s team said the two of them were not in “close contact” as defined by federal health professionals.