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Trump's threat to veto Covid relief bill is holding up $9 billion in state vaccine funding CNBC 12/24/2020 Noah Higgins-Dunn Trump's attack threatens to derail $8.75 billion in desperately needed funding that states thought they were getting to help with vaccine distribution efforts. States and counties have already had to cut spending and suspend capital infrastructure projects to fund pandemic response efforts. Roughly 9.5 million doses have been distributed and just over 1 million people in the U.S. have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine as of Wednesday ...

Florida governor plans to sign executive order to ensure seniors are vaccinated first From CNN's Sara Weisfeldt and Rosa Flores Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a press conference in Pensacola, Florida, on December 23. Pool/WEAR-TV Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to issue an executive order to ensure seniors, over the age of 65, are the first members of the general public to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. The announcement was made Wednesday during a press conference in Pensacola.   DeSantis said his order will guarantee seniors will be in the front of line to get vaccinated, despite t...

By   Dec 22, 2020 07:50 PM EST After States and counties have been left to handle their share of the first batch of vaccines, distribution became chaotic.   In a rural hospital in Arkansas, the 975 doses per tray of Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine contains way too many, but splitting trays into smaller shipments has risks. That is an example of the logistical issues in safely getting the Pfizer vaccine to rural health care workers. Another is once the vaccine is out of the freezer at 94 degrees below zero, the vaccine can only last five days and, thus, must be refrigerated in transit. According to...

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This pandemic has been marked by confusing, contradictory messages from the top. And the federal government's distribution of coronavirus vaccines to the states has followed the same pattern. Over the weekend, the man in charge of the rollout, General Gus Perna, bluntly admitted that he had failed. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) GUS PERNA: I failed. I am adjusting. I am fixing. And we will move forward from there. SHAPIRO: Perna took responsibility after more than a dozen states said they were promised a certain number of doses, only to have that number slashed at the la...

Millions of U.S. vaccine doses sitting unused, putting 2020 goal in doubt Dec. 24, 2020 05:44 am JST Jan. 24 | 12:07 am JST WASHINGTON The requested article has expired, and is no longer available. Any related articles, and user comments are shown below. © Thomson Reuters 2020. ©2021 GPlusMedia Inc. Dec. 24, 2020 06:56 am JST The Trump administration promised to vaccinate 20 million by the end of the year while providing little funding to achieve the goal. "While providing little funding". Once again Trump, his admin and R's show...