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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump has left a note for his successor, Joe Biden, in the Oval Office, carrying on at least one tradition of the peaceful transition of power, two Trump administration officials said on Wednesday.
Trump left the White House for the last time as president Wednesday morning to go to Florida and will not attend the inauguration ceremony, breaking with a century of precedent in which presidents have witnessed their successors taking the oath of office on the steps of the U.S. Capitol.
Leaving a note for Biden is one Inauguration Day tradition that Trump chose to keep.
By Michael Wilner and Tara Copp
McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS
WASHINGTON - Scientists at the Walter Reed Army Research Institute have promising new data indicating their vaccine will work against significant mutations of COVID-19, as well as entirely different coronaviruses, an achievement that other vaccines so far have not accomplished.
The data has yet to be peer reviewed. But the Army lab is hopeful that a pan-coronavirus vaccine is achievable after testing the drug on SARS, a coronavirus that emerged in 2003 with significant biological differences from the current pandemic disease known as SARS-CoV-2.
Tests of the vaccine against both SARS as well as emerging variants of COVID-19 have shown “very good responses,” said Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad, director of Walter Reed’s Emerging Infectious Diseases Branch.
Kansas governor promises to beat COVID-19, rips violence and sedition at Capitol Dion Lefler and Katie Bernard, The Wichita Eagle
Jan. 13 Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly promised Tuesday that the end is in sight for the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic disruption it s caused, while calling for healing amid a fractured political landscape including destruction, violence, and sedition at the nation s Capitol. We can not let political fights slow us down, the governor said in her State of the State speech Tuesday night. In the weeks and months to come, we need to get every Kansan vaccinated. We need to get our economy moving. And we need to get all our kids back into the classroom.
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