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Joe Biden receives coronavirus vaccination
“There’s nothing to worry about,” the president-elect said in a show of support for the inoculation campaign.
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President-elect Joe Biden and incoming first lady Jill Biden received initial injections of the coronavirus vaccine on Monday in a show of support for the inoculation.
“I’m doing this to demonstrate that people should be prepared when it’s available to take the vaccine,” Biden said. “There’s nothing to worry about. I’m looking forward to the second shot.”
The Bidens’ vaccinations come less than a week after a
member of the press corps covering the transition and Rep. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, the president-elect’s chosen director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, tested positive for Covid-19.
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Probe: Trump officials attacked CDC coronavirus reports
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FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2020 file photo, Committee Chairman Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., during a House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.Kevin Dietsch/Pool via AP
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WASHINGTON (AP) Trump administration political appointees tried to block or change more than a dozen government reports that detailed scientific findings about the spread of the coronavirus, a House panel investigating the alleged interference said Monday.
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., said his coronavirus committee investigators have found evidence of a “political pressure campaign” to “bully” professionals at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in what may have been an attempt to “cripple the nation’s coronavirus response in a misguided effort to achieve herd immunity.”