
World Jan 22, 2021
Biden unveils a national pandemic response that Trump resisted
Biden predicted that the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 would top 500,000 next month, refusing to play down the carnage that his predecessor was loath to acknowledge.
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Biden predicted that the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 would top 500,000 next month, refusing to play down the carnage that his predecessor was loath to acknowledge.
Elizabeth Graves, an ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, is not opposed to vaccines. She said she had taken flu shots and pneumonia shots and, having just turned 50, was interested in being vaccinated against shingles. But Graves, a legal transcriptionist in Starkville, Mississippi, said ...
As the United States enters what may be the most intense stage of the pandemic yet, the Trump administration remains largely disengaged.
Trump has largely shuttered the White House task force and doubled down on anti-science language, telling voters that the U.S. is "rounding the corner” in the pandemic.