Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo argues that there will be an absence of prosperity in the U.S. if the Biden administration doesn t get China policy right.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned that the move by China to sanction him, as well as other former Trump administration officials, is sending a message to the Biden administration.
“The sanctions that took place were intended to do a single thing, it was to send a message to the next administration, the Biden administration, that says if you’re serious about protecting America, American sovereignty, American jobs, American wealth .you will be punished,” he said on Mornings With Maria.
U.S. health officials sought to speed up the sluggish pace of COVID-19 vaccinations on Thursday, as the coronavirus claimed over 4,000 American lives for a second straight day and employment data showed the pandemic further stifling the job market.
Sullivan, a 30-year-old writer and comedian, has unintentionally built a
list of more than a dozen Floridians who need help securing an appointment. It started when she helped her parents, aunts and uncles get their shots, which quickly progressed to their elderly neighbors and even her mother s boss at the local library.
Harder than Coachella tickets We used to wait for Coachella tickets, and you get in the queue and you have multiple devices, Sullivan said. I would argue that s easier than getting a Covid vaccine.
Older Americans across the country who are now eligible to get vaccinated against Covid-19 have been waking up before dawn and logging into their computers trying to secure an appointment to get the lifesaving shots. Those who aren t as tech savvy have recruited the help of younger family members or friends who can quickly maneuver through the registration process before all of the spots are taken.
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The week before Christmas, hundreds of medical residents at Stanford University Hospital joined an emergency Zoom call. They had been brought together by shared outrage at their administration’s allocation plans for its first 5,000 doses of the newly authorized vaccine for Covid-19, the pandemic that had defined their past year. Only seven of those shots were reserved for residents, the lowest-ranking physicians, even though they’re more often exposed to patients infected with the coronavirus than other employees whose work had been almost entirely remote. But some of those employees including hospital executives and dermatologists who’d only seen patients virtually were nonethele