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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Sunday that the decision about whether a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot would be needed would be made by public health officials and not by pharmaceutical companies.During an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Pr...

Dr. Deborah Birx, the former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, said she last year had an "uncomfortable" conversation with former President Donald Trump after she spoke frankly during a cable news appearance. Birx comments come in a preview of the upcoming documentary about the pandemic titled "COVID WAR...

Summary List PlacementPrisoners in the state of Tennessee were placed last on the list of eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccine after an advisory council feared a "public relations nightmare" should they be given priority access, the Associated Press reported. According to the report, published Saturday, the Pandemic Vaccine Planning Stakeholder group, the council tasked with forming recommendations for the state's vaccine rollout, noted that...

Summary List PlacementA New York City man said he was fired by Trader Joe's after he sent a letter to the company's CEO requesting the company make several changes he said would more thoroughly protect the grocery chain's employees from COVID-19.  In a tweet Friday evening, Ben Bonnema said he was fired from the Trader Joe's location on New York City's Upper West Side...

Summary List PlacementPresident Joe Biden said Friday that undocumented immigrants living in the United States should be able to receive the COVID-19 vaccine without the fear of being targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  "I want to make sure they all are able to get vaccinated and so they're protected from Covid, without the ICE or anyone else interfering," Biden said during a...

Summary List PlacementIn a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the longtime director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, revealed that last year he opened a letter that contained a then-unidentified "puff of powder." Fauci said when he opened the letter, a powder immediately covered his face and chest. His beefed-up security detail, which was brought on...

Summary List PlacementSen. Bernie Sanders on Sunday said that Democrats must act quickly in passing a COVID-19 relief package now that President Joe Biden has assumed office and Democrats narrowly control both the House and Senate. "Well, I don't know what the word compromise means," Sanders, , an Independent from Vermont, told CNN's Dana Bash during an appearance on "State of the Union" when...

Summary List PlacementIsrael has vaccinated more than a quarter of its population against COVID-19, and cases of the disease are finally beginning to decline following a surge that prompted a nationwide lockdown.  More than 2.43 million people in Israel have now received at least one dose of the two-dose vaccines. That's about 27% of the country, according to data from Our World In Data....

Summary List PlacementA data scientist who has accused Florida's health department of firing her for refusing to alter COVID-19 data turned herself into authorities after they issued a warrant for her arrest. The warrant was issued for the woman, Rebekah Jones, last week, about a month after authorities raided her Florida home. In a statement sent Monday, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement confirmed...

Summary List PlacementPresident-elect Joe Biden on Saturday implored President Donald Trump to sign the bipartisan economic relief package passed by the House and Senate that he has so far refused to approve. "It is the day after Christmas, and millions of families don't know if they'll be able to make ends meet because of President Donald Trump's refusal to sign an economic relief bill...

Summary List PlacementPassengers on at least one flight Sunday departing the UK headed to Germany were told by the plane's pilot they faced a mandatory test and quarantine upon landing at Stuttgart Airport should they choose to remain on board the aircraft. In audio obtained by the German publication BILD, which is owned by Insider's parent company Axel Springer SE, a pilot on a...

Summary List PlacementRep. Dusty Johnson, South Dakota's lone member of the US House of Representatives, on Friday asked his constituents to vote in a poll to decide whether he got early access to the COVID-19 vaccine or should wait until it's more widely available. "We have the COVID-19 vaccine, and that's a critically important development in the fight against the pandemic," Johnson, a Republican,...

Summary List PlacementAlex Azar, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, on Sunday said that the Trump administration is aiming to vaccinate residents in nursing homes by Christmas.  "It can start really any day," Azar said of the nursing home vaccinations during an appearance on CBS News' "Face the Nation" on Sunday. "This is according to the governors telling us to...

Summary List PlacementA Biogen medical conference in late February led to between 205,000 to 300,000 COVID-19 infections from February to November of this year, according to a study in the peer-reviewed journal Science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The number does not account for transmissions of the virus after November 1.  According to the report, published Thursday, contact tracers had initially...

Summary List PlacementMoncef Slaoui, the head of the White House's operation "Warp Speed," urged the Black community to put aside their concerns and take the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, saying Sunday that nobody is "being used as a guinea pig." Slaoui, a former GlaxoSmithKline executive who was tapped by President Donald Trump earlier this year to lead the White House operation to push...

Summary List Placement A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found that counties in Kansas that adopted a mask mandate saw a decrease in COVID-19 transmission compared to counties that did not, which saw an increase in the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, on July 3 issued a statewide mask mandate,...

Summary List Placement The White House on Sunday offered a stern rebuke of Dr. Anthony Fauci, the leading coronavirus expert in the US, after he warned that the US needed to change its coronavirus mitigation strategies.  "It's unacceptable and breaking all norms for Dr. Fauci, a senior member of the president's coronavirus task force and someone who has praised President Trump's actions throughout the...

Summary List Placement The office of Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin on Saturday announced he tested positive for COVID-19, marking him the third Republican senator to announce a positive test since Friday morning. Johnson was exposed to someone who tested positive for COVID-19 on September 14, his office said in a statement. While in a 14-day quarantine, Johnson tested negative for the virus...