by Jim Heath | Jan 27, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Joe Biden, Olympics
A member of the Tokyo Organizing Committee has asked for help from President Biden to get the Olympic Games over the line. The International Olympic Committee and Japanese organizers have been increasingly bullish in recent weeks about the prospect of holding the...
by Jim Heath | Jan 25, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
President Biden said today he believed that the U.S. will be able to offer vaccines to every American who wants one ‘in spring.’ He also increased his goal of 1 million vaccines a day to 1.5 million today, predicting his administration would reach that...
by Jim Heath | Jan 24, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention admitted today that the US doesn’t have enough COVID-19 vaccines to meet states’ needs, even as New York and Georgia desperately plead for more doses to inoculate their populations. ‘We...
by Jim Heath | Jan 21, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Joe Biden
Dr. Anthony Fauci took center stage at a White House press briefing this afternoon, telling reporters he felt liberated from the constraints of former President Trump. ‘I take no pleasure at all of being in the position of contradicting the president,’...
by Jim Heath | Jan 19, 2021 | coronavirus, Headlines, Health
The United States hit a grim milestone and surpassed 400,000 coronavirus deaths today, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That figure is more than the number of Americans who died during World War I, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined and nearly...