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ROCKVILLE, MD / ACCESSWIRE / January 8, 2021 / The American Kidney Fund (AKF) is calling on President-elect Joseph R. Biden, Jr. to prioritize our country s kidney disease epidemic by focusing on policies that address health disparities, and protect and expand access to affordable, high-quality health coverage.
Kidney disease and kidney failure, also known as end-stage renal disease (ESRD), have a disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic minorities. Compared to white Americans, Black Americans are 3.4 times more likely to develop kidney failure, Native Americans are 1.9 times more likely and Asian Americans are 1.3 times more likely. Additionally, people of Hispanic ethnicity are 1.5 times more likely to develop kidney failure than non-Hispanics. These statistics-and more importantly the people they represent-have come into sharper focus as COVID-19 continues to spread across the country, with those same communities facing higher rates of hospitalizations and mortality duri
Biden plans to release nearly all available vaccine doses in an attempt to speed delivery.
Sergeant Brian Patrick McKnerney of the New Jersey State Police received a coronavirus vaccination in Rockaway, N.J., on Friday. Credit.Sarah Blesener for The New York Times
Published Jan. 8, 2021Updated Feb. 19, 2021
In a sharp break with the Trump administration, President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. intends to release nearly all available doses of the coronavirus vaccine soon after he is inaugurated, rather than hold back millions of vials to guarantee second doses will be available.
The decision is part of an aggressive effort to “to ensure the Americans who need it most get it as soon as possible,” the Biden transition team said on Friday. The vaccination plan, to be formally unveiled next week, also will include federally run vaccination sites in places like high school gyms and sports stadiums, and mobile units to reach high-risk populations.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California said on Friday that the House would move to impeach President Trump over his role in inciting a violent mob attack on the Capitol if he did not resign “immediately,” appealing to Republicans to join the push to force him from office.
In a letter to members of the House, the speaker invoked the resignation of Richard M. Nixon amid the Watergate scandal, when Republicans prevailed upon the president to resign and avoid the ignominy of an impeachment, calling Mr. Trump’s actions a “horrific assault on our democracy.”
“Today, following the president’s dangerous and seditious acts, Republicans in Congress need to follow that example and call on Trump to depart his office immediately,” she wrote. “If the president does not leave office imminently and willingly, the Congress will proceed with our action.”
WATERTOWN — Unsettled eyes from around the world, across the nation and in the north country watched Wednesday, as the U.S. Capitol was mobbed by the president’s supporters.
“How did they know to go there?” he asked. “How come they didn’t go where my name was? They went where you won’t find my name, but they found where I was supposed to be. So something else was going on untoward here. So we need to have an extensive investigation to find out. Why were they taking selfies with these people? Why were they out there waving people on to the grounds? Why were they allowing people through the door? They went to Statuary Hall as if they were part of the statutes that are there.”
Mr. Clyburn’s comments came after a mob of President Trump supporters who falsely believe he won the election against President-elect Joseph R. Biden stormed the Capitol building and temporarily halted a joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College votes Wednesday afternoon.