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Olympic games should be canceled. their biggest concern is virus variants. take a listen. >> 100,000 people from 200 countries with various variants but no symptoms will come to tokyo in a short time. i think there's a possibility that those variants will mix to create a variant which could be a huge threat to humans. covid is not infectious to children very much, but just in case a variant which is infectious to children comes out, that is the worst-case scenario. >> reporter: what the ioc says 80% of the people inside the olympic village will be vaccinated. that doesn't include the roughly 7...

Astrazeneca, on pfizer have paid off so much so that they've actually scaled back their order of the johnson & johnson shot because they just don't need as much. so whereas before they were going to buy 30 million shots, now they're only going to buy 20 million shots. it is a bit of a game-changer in this country because it is just one shot, not the two-dose schedule like most of the others. so with the uk trying to really ramp up the pace of its vaccination because of the threat of the indian variant which spreads even quicker than the uk variant that we have right now, this could really help...

100 days, not forever, but for 100 days, to help save lives. and biden saying he will take the vaccine, along with former presidents obama, clinton and bush. biden says when dr. fauci says it's safe. also tonight, news late today about the pfizer vaccine. the company reportedly slashing its initial shipment projections in half, because of concerns in the supply chain. so, bottom line tonight, how many doses expected for americans by the end of the year? pfizer saying that number has not changed. and abc news getting an inside look at a united airlines 777, the part of the plane that will car...

Fauci to stay on in the same role in the biden administration. and biden saying when he's inaugurated, he'll ask americans to wear masks for 100 days to help save lives. tonight, more than 14 million americans have now tested positive. more than 192,000 new cases in just the past 24 hours. and as i mentioned, more than 100,000 now fighting this virus in the hospital. deaths now surpassing the peak last spring. at least 275,000 american lives now lost. tonight, california's governor with that warning, that there could very well be new lockdowns in areas where icus are close to capacity. most bu...

Apologized, but hoping to convince americans the vaccine is safe, fauci saying the fda is carefully reviewing the data. >> if we had jumped over the hurdle here quickly and inappropriately to gain an extra week or a week and a half, i think that the credibility of our regulatory process would have been damaged. >> reporter: states and cities preparing for the biggest and most complicated vaccine rollout in american history. new york governor andrew cuomo today unpacking a sample box of pfizer's vaccine, which must be stored at minus 94 degrees. holding up a vile, each containing five doses. th...