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In shift, GOP ramps up vaccine push as resistance hardens Jill Colvin And Brian Slodysko Associated Press Updated:  July 23, 2021 3:32 pm Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., joined by House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., left, and members of the GOP Doctors Caucus, speaks during a news conference about the Delta variant of COVID-19 and the origin of the virus, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) WASHINGTON – Republican politicians are under increasing pressu...

‘Unvaccinated folks ... are letting us down’: Republicans ramp up vaccine push Shift comes as more contagious Delta variant prompts US COVID-19 cases to nearly triple     House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., joined by House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., left, and members of the GOP Doctors Caucus, speaks during a news conference about the Delta variant of COVID-19 and the origin of the virus, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 22, 2021. [ J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE | AP ] Updated 3 hours ago WASHINGTON — Republican politicians are under in...

Vaccinations rise in some states with soaring infections Vaccinations are beginning to rise in some states where COVID-19 cases are soaring, White House officials said Thursday in a sign that the summer surge is getting the attention of vaccine-hesitant Americans as hospitals in the South are being overrun with patients. Coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters that several states with the highest proportions of new infections have seen residents get vaccinated at higher rates than the nation as a whole. Officials cited Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada as examples. ...

July 23, 2021 - 3:04 AM As Tokyo Games open, can Olympic flame burn away the funk? TOKYO (AP) — Disputed, locked down and running a year late, the Tokyo Games begin at last on Friday night, a multinational showcase of the finest athletes of a world fragmented by disease — and an event steeped in the political and medical baggage of a relentless pandemic whose presence haunts every Olympic corner. As the first pandemic Games in a century convene largely without spectators and opposed by much of the host nation, the disbelief and anger of those kept outside the near-de...

July 22, 2021 - 8:04 PM Vaccinations rise in some states with soaring infections Vaccinations are beginning to rise in some states where COVID-19 cases are soaring, White House officials said Thursday in a sign that the summer surge is getting the attention of vaccine-hesitant Americans as hospitals in the South are being overrun with patients. Coronavirus coordinator Jeff Zients told reporters that several states with the highest proportions of new infections have seen residents get vaccinated at higher rates than the nation as a whole. Officials cited Arkansas, Florida, Loui...