RIGHT SPEAK: Should Immigrants and ILLEGALS Get Access to the Coronavirus Vaccines? rightspeak.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from rightspeak.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
I was at Hong Kong international airport the morning the U.S. reported its first case of the virus out of Wuhan, China. News had already been circulating about this deadly new illness in Taiwan, my point of departure, and I spent that layover rushing around looking for the provisions needed to minimize the risk on my flight to New York. Masks were out of stock but I eventually found a small bottle of sanitizer with a cartoon Shiba Inu dog on the label, an irony I’d later appreciate. At the airline lounge, staff were dismissive of my suggestion that hand sanitizer be made available at the counter to all passengers. I knew that would change.
Tennessee emerges as new Covid-19 epicentre in US as pandemic rages africaleader.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from africaleader.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
December 23, 2020
Operation Warp Speed said as many as 20 million people could be vaccinated by year s end, but so far the U.S. isn t even close to that goal.
SHOW TRANSCRIPT
It s been roughly 10 days since the U.S. started rolling out its first coronavirus vaccine. These vaccines are going to save so many lives and bring this pandemic to an end, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said earlier this week before receiving the vaccine.
Since then, just over 1 million Americans have received a shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, while nearly 9.5 million doses have gone out to states and a number of federal agencies as of Wednesday morning, according to the CDC. That s a difference of more than 8 million between the number of doses administered and doses distributed.