US vaccine scandal prompts health secretary to resign Saturday, 16 January 2021 5:30 PM
[ Last Update: Saturday, 16 January 2021 5:30 PM ] Alex Azar, secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), speaks as President Donald Trump listens during an event on lowering prescription drug prices on November 20, 2020, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (AFP photo)
US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has resigned, admitting that the Trump administration did not have the reserve vaccine it had promised the nation to stockpile.
US media stated on Friday that Azar resigned from his post citing the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill as his main reason for resignation.
Federal officials told Brown and Oregon Health Director Pat Allen that there had been a miscommunication.
Actually, no additional vaccine at all would be on its way. I thought I was losing my mind, Allen said, I went back and reviewed the actual C-SPAN video of Secretary Azar, and the words he used were releasing the entire supply. He talked about physical inventory. It was incredibly clear.
In response, Brown on Jan. 15 said the state would have to revise its priority list for the second time in one week.
The new rollout also underlined an already controversial decision by the governor to place teachers and staff above the elderly on the priority list.
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More than 100,000 vaccinated on India s first day of Covid-19 vaccination drive, health ministry says
From Rishabh Pratap
A nurse draws from a vial of the Covishield vaccine developed by Oxford University and AstraZeneca, and manufactured by the Serum Institute of India at a hospital in Mumbai, India, on January 16. Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg/Getty Images
India started its nation-wide vaccination drive for Covid-19 on Saturday.
According to the country’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, a total of 165,714 health care workers were vaccinated as of 5:30 p.m. local time Saturday.
A total of 16,755 trained vaccinators were involved at 3,351 sessions nationwide, the ministry added.
Variant Continues U.S. Spread; N.Y. Cases Slow: Virus Update
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(Bloomberg) The Greater Los Angeles area has surpassed 1 million confirmed Covid-19 cases, though county scientists estimate actual infections are three times higher.
Louisiana became the latest U.S. state to report a case of a more transmissible coronavirus variant first found in the U.K. Cases in the U.S. slowed, and new infections in New York state fell from a record. Virginia’s infections rose to a new high.
Norway said 29 people over the age 75 have now died after receiving their first Pfizer/BioNtech shot. The U.K. reported fatalities above 1,200 for the fifth consecutive day.