Enlarge / US President Joe Biden releases his strategic COVID-19 plan at the White House on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) Just a day into office, President Joe Biden and his administration have unveiled a comprehensive, 200-page strategic plan and over a dozen executive orders and actions to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic […]
Enlarge / Dr. Rochelle Walensky, President-elect Joe Biden’s pick to head the Centers for Disease Control. (credit: Getty | Chip Somodevilla) Midday today, January 20, Dr. Rochelle Walensky will take over as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—and one of her top priorities will be to try to undo all the harms […]
Enlarge / US President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks on his plan to administer COVID-19 vaccines in Wilmington, Delaware on January 15, 2021. (credit: Getty | Angela Weiss) President-elect Joe Biden on Friday unveiled a five-point plan to try to rescue the country’s beleaguered COVID-19 vaccination campaign and achieve his stated goal of reaching 100 million […]
Enlarge / Health workers in personal protection suits stand next to buses at a cordoned-off section of the international airport in Wuhan on January 14, 2021, following the arrival of a World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. (credit: Getty | NICOLAS ASFOURI ) Chinese authorities have held up two […]
Enlarge / Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC July 29, 2020. (credit: Getty | Graeme Jennings) A second lawmaker announced that she has tested positive for COVID-19 days after bunkering with Republican colleagues who “recklessly” and “cruelly” refused to wear a mask amid the attack on the Capitol building. Rep. Pramila […]
Enlarge / Workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) clean an entry to the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg) The attending physician to Congress on Sunday sent an alert to lawmakers warning them that they may have been exposed to the pandemic coronavirus while huddled in a […]
Enlarge / President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks January 07, 2021 in Wilmington, Delaware. (credit: Getty | Chip Somodevilla) President-elect Joe Biden is reportedly planning to ditch the current Trump Administration policy of withholding half of all available COVID-19 doses to ensure that the requisite second doses are available, according to a report by CNN. Instead, […]
Expand / US President Donald Trump at the Oval Office of the White House at Washington, DC on December 7, 2020. (charge: Getty | Saul Loeb) The Trump government will sponsor a”Vaccine Summit” now in the White House. But notably absent in the vaccine-centered occasion is going to be some businesses which truly make vaccines–such […]
Expand / US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, listens to Detroit researcher employee Jessi Jacobs within an appearance before the Michigan House Oversight Committee on December 2, 2020 at Lansing, Michigan. Ray Del Rio) Rudy Giuliani was hospitalized in Washington, DC, after testing positive for its pandemic coronavirus and displaying symptoms of COVID-19. […]
Expand / Vials using COVID-19 Vaccine labels revealing logos of pharmaceutical firm Pfizer and German biotechnology firm de BioNTech. (charge: Getty | Photonews) The exact initial doses of any accepted COVID-19 vaccine must visit both front-line health care employees and inhabitants of long-term maintenance centers, a committee of specialist advisers for the Centers for Disease […]