Trump expected to soon sign COVID-19 relief package
December 20, 2020
The House and Senate easily passed passed a $900 billion coronavirus relief bill and $1.4 trillion spending package Monday night, funding the government through next September. The House s 359-53 vote, followed by a 91-7 vote in the Senate, sends the legislation to President Trump, who is expected to sign it Tuesday. The bipartisan package includes $600 stimulus checks for qualifying Americans, and extends unemployment benefits of up to $300 per week. The package also extends the moratorium on evictions until Jan. 31, provides $25 billion in emergency assistance to renters, and covers $13 billion in increased food stamps and nutrition benefits. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said the stimulus checks could go out as soon as next week.
Dr Anthony Fauci, Alex Azar, others to receive COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday
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Anthony Fauci Clarifies: Vaccine Will Get to Public by Spring Erin Banco © Provided by The Daily Beast Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Health and Infectious Diseases, said Monday that the American public would likely begin to receive the COVID-19 vaccine somewhat early in the spring but that it would take several months before an overwhelming majority of the population was immunized.
“I think people are getting a little confused about when they can expect [the vaccine]. If you start vaccinating parts of the general public in April, by the time you get to the end of August … that’s when we should see an overwhelming majority,” Fauci said, in an interview with The Daily Beast. “That’s if you vaccinate very aggressively in May, June and July.”
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President-elect Joe Biden received his first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on live television Monday afternoon and sought to reassure Americans of the vaccine s safety.
Biden s vaccination came one week after the first doses of the shot were injected into US health care workers, and on the same day that a second vaccine, developed by Moderna, was administered to Americans. We re still in the thick of this, the President-elect said, urging Americans to listen to public health experts and wear masks and socially distance and to not travel unless absolutely necessary during the holiday season. If you don t have to travel, don t travel.
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WASHINGTON Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top government health officials received their first dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine on Tuesday.
Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, received the shot around 10 a.m. ET at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, NIH Director Francis Collins, NIH Office of Research Services Director Colleen A. McGowan and six health care workers from the medical clinic were also vaccinated.
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