The new restrictions have swept across the country, aiming to contain recent outbreaks driven by the coronavirus delta variant. Andrew Cuomo wants to give it his seal of approval first.Australia was a COVID-19 success story - until it wasn’t.Īfter months of near-normal, 80% of Australians are back under lockdown, says CNN. However, New York will be at the back of the line, Trump said, because Gov. On Friday, Trump announced that the vaccine could be distributed to Americans as soon as April. It’s a giant logistical project,” he added. And that means you’ve got to get that vaccine into people’s arms all over this country. “It’s great to have a vaccine, but vaccines don’t save lives: vaccinations save lives. “We’re going to start those consultations this week,” Ron Klain, Biden’s incoming chief of staff, told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “We need to be talking to them as quickly as possible.”
In the meantime, Biden’s scientific advisors will meet with vaccine manufacturers like Pfizer as the government now focuses on the deployment of the company’s promising vaccine candidate. “There’s a lot of information that needs to be transmitted. “It is in the nation’s interest that the transition team get the threat assessments that the team knows about,” he said. Gawande insisted it was “vital” that Biden’s team begin receiving intelligence about the pandemic. Hospitalizations also reached 68,000 people, the highest number since the virus arrived on US shores nine months ago. Many states around the country are going back into lockdown after the US added a record 184,000 new COVID-19 infections on Friday. Anthony Fauci told CNN’s Jake Tapper that the task force should be meeting with Biden’s team before they inherit the worst public health crisis in a century. Osterholm, a director of the Center for Infectious Disease & Policy at the University of Minnesota, created a political maelstrom last week when he suggested that the nation go into another extended economic lockdown and the government replace people’s wages.īiden’s transition team and public health advisors can’t speak to the White House coronavirus task force and other government officials as President Trump continues to battle the election results. “We do not need to go into a nationwide shelter-in-place shutdown,” he added. “You can look at New York City for example, where on a zipcode-by-zipcode basis you can deploy different restrictions in order to get the virus under control and it’s quite effective,” Gawande said. Gawande countered that so much had been learned since the beginning out of the outbreak and the first lockdown in April, that more localized measures were actually now preferable, including reducing capacity in public spaces like restaurants. Michael Osterholm who floated the idea of a four- to six-week lockdown of small to medium businesses to drive down infections. Gawande was specifically asked to clarify recent remarks by fellow Biden adviser Dr. “We are not in support of a nationwide lockdown and believe there is not a scenario unless - there simply isn’t a scenario because we can get this under control,” Dr. People who are unvaccinated against COVID at 10 times higher risk of diabetesįace masks made ‘little to no difference’ in preventing spread of COVID: studyĪ member of Joe Biden’s COVID-19 advisory team on Sunday rejected claims that the president-elect would force the country into another round of strict lockdowns as daily coronavirus cases reach new highs. I lost my job for opposing COVID school closings - I was right, but Dems won't apologizeĭo the right thing, Mayor Adams, and rehire the heroes fired over the vaccine
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