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Administration ‘worried’ by limited vaccine data
By Francesca Chambers and Michael Wilner
McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS
WASHINGTON - Biden administration officials are expressing frustration over inadequate data on how many Black and Hispanic Americans have received COVID-19 vaccines, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday that it lacked race and ethnicity information on nearly half of those vaccinated in the first month.
The Biden administration has pledged to increase attention and resources on the equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines among minority communities that have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic - a difficult task without the data to guide them on who is getting vaccinated where, White House officials said.
By Francesca Chambers and Michael Wilner
McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS
WASHINGTON - Biden administration officials are expressing frustration over inadequate data on how many Black and Hispanic Americans have received COVID-19 vaccines, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday that it lacked race and ethnicity information on nearly half of those vaccinated in the first month.
The Biden administration has pledged to increase attention and resources on the equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines among minority communities that have been disproportionately affected by the pandemic - a difficult task without the data to guide them on who is getting vaccinated where, White House officials said.
UK coronavirus variant identified in 26 states, CDC director says By Michael Wilner, McClatchy Washington Bureau
Published: January 27, 2021, 11:12am
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WASHINGTON A highly contagious variant of the coronavirus first identified in the United Kingdom is now in 26 states and has infected at least 308 people, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said Wednesday.
Nearly two-thirds of those cases have been found in Florida and California, according to a public CDC database tracking cases.
“Viruses mutate, and we have always expected that variants would emerge, and we have been looking for them,” Walensky said, speaking during the first coronavirus response team briefing since President Joe Biden took office last week.
Pompeo lands spot at think tank amid speculation over 2024 presidential ambitions
Updated Jan 27, 2021;
Posted Jan 27, 2021
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks to the press at the State Department in Washington, D.C., on May 20, 2020. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images/TNS)TNS
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WASHINGTON Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo won’t be returning to Wichita, Kansas, just yet. Instead, he’ll take a job on Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation’s capital.
Pompeo has been named a distinguished fellow at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank just blocks from the White House.
Axios first reported Pompeo’s decision to stay in Washington Tuesday evening. The institute made its official announcement of Pompeo’s position in a news release, which touted Pompeo’s background as both CIA director and the nation’s top diplomat under former President Donald Trump.