Welcome to Wednesday’s Overnight Health Care.
Congress is closing in on a coronavirus stimulus agreement, HHS says some Pfizer vaccine doses got too cold, and a Trump administration official was pushing for herd immunity as an official policy.
We ll start with a startling report about a former top Trump official:
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Trump official pushed for herd immunity, calling for low-risk Americans to be infected, emails show
A Trump administration official pushed for a herd immunity strategy to respond to coronavirus, writing that it is good for lower-risk people to be infected with the virus, according to emails obtained by Congress.
U.S. angling to secure more of Pfizer s coronavirus vaccine
An employee of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, receives one of the first COVID-19 vaccines at the medical center, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Wake Forest Baptist received its first shipment of the Pfizer vaccine on Monday morning. Ten employees received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday. Additional employees will be given the vaccine in the coming days. (Walt Unks/The Winston-Salem Journal via AP)
Tami Jeffries, R.N., prepares the first locally-available dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Va. on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. (Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star via AP)
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Winter Storm Wallops US Northeast
NEW YORK A major snowstorm rolled into the Northeast on Wednesday.
Snow was falling from northern Virginia to points north of New York City by late afternoon. The storm was poised to drop as much as 2 feet of snow in some places by Thursday.
Officials said they don’t expect the winter blast to disrupt vaccine distribution for the coronavirus, which began Monday for frontline health care workers, the first group of Americans to get the shots. The first 3 million shots are being strictly limited to those workers and to nursing home residents.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Wednesday that the government is tracking the vaccine shipments precisely, has staffers already in place to receive them, and believes the companies transporting them can navigate the storm.
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