Welcome to Wednesday s Overnight Health Care.
It will be months before every American who wants a vaccine can get one, according to a White House adviser. The CDC says COVID-19 could kill more than 500,000 people in the next month, and HHS raided millions of research dollars to use for unrelated expenses.
We ll start at the White House:
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Biden COVID-19 adviser: It will be months before all who want vaccine get it
A White House COVID-19 adviser on Wednesday said that it will be months before all Americans who want a coronavirus vaccine can get one, a much more pessimistic message than the one delivered by President Biden.
Welcome to Wednesday's Overnight Health Care. Joe Biden is now president, in case you missed it. And he's starting off right away with action on COVID-19. Let's begin there:Biden signs first executive actions as president President Biden signed his first executive actions on Wednesday afternoon, hours after being sworn in as the 46th commander in chief.Biden, wearing a mask while seated at the Resolute desk in the Oval Office, signed executive.
Welcome to Wednesday's Overnight Health Care. President Trump was impeached for the second time, and while politics have largely dominated the news coverage, more than 4,000 Americans died from COVID-19, a new daily record. Meanwhile, Johnson & Johnson's vaccine shows promise, and new data show school-age children have not been fueling coronavirus outbreaks. We'll start with a sobering number:Another day, another record: US sets new record.
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.