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FDA Panel Member Calls for Mass COVID-19 Vaccination Events A member of a federal vaccine advisory panel said Thursday that the United States should be holding mass COVID-19 vaccination events to get more people vaccinated, amid concerns vaccinations aren’t happening quickly enough. While billions of dollars from the government helped produce vaccines in record time, the vaccination part “is equally hard and is equally going to require this Manhattan Project-like response,” Dr. Paul Offit said. “We need to do essentially the kind of things we’re doing in our hospital. In our hospital, we’ve vaccinated 12 people every 30 minutes. And so we will plow through tens of thousands of people by having a very efficient system,” he added. ....
We would ve liked to have seen it run smoothly and have 20 million doses into people today, by the end of the (year) 2020, which was the projection. Obviously, it didn t happen and that s disappointing, Fauci said Thursday on NBC s TODAY show. Hopefully, as you get into the first couple of weeks in January, the gaining of momentum will get us to the point where we want to be. States and counties need more resources to accelerate the pace of vaccination, Fauci said. Trump in recent days has defended his administration s rollout by saying it s the responsibility of the states to administer the shots once they re delivered by Operation Warp Speed. ....
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA The most important company you’ve never heard of is being dragged into the U.S.-China rivalry [Los Angeles Times] It’s been called Taiwan’s Silicon Shield, and without it much of modern life would cease. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., or TSMC, makes more than half the world’s contracted semiconductor chips and lies at the center of the technology supply chain, churning out circuitry found in iPhones, Amazon cloud computers, graphics processors that power popular video games and even military drones and fighter jets like Lockheed Martin’s F-35. But TSMC is confronting problems it had never anticipated when a Taiwanese American engineer, who spent 25 years at Texas Instruments and is revered here like a hometown Bill Gates, founded it in the late 1980s. The company has been drawn into an increasingly bitter and at times dangerous rivalry between the U.S. and China that is forcing nations and corporations to choose ....