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Month: December 2020

CDC director says colleges ‘stepped up’ despite his concerns that students would make the pandemic difficult to contain

Despite early outbreaks of Covid-19 on college campuses, mitigation strategies have helped fight the virus, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Dr. Robert Redfield said in a livestream Wednesday with the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation that, despite his initial concerns that colleges would struggle to contain infections, schools have

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Texas may receive enough virus vaccine doses for 700,000 people in mid-December

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas could receive coronavirus vaccine doses to immunize up to 700,000 Texans in December, assuming U.S. health officials approve coronavirus vaccine candidates from drugmakers Pfizer and Moderna, Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday afternoon. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has promised to send Texas as many as 1.4 million doses

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Georgia’s GOP secretary of state says recount results will show ‘no substantial changes’

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Wednesday they have seen “no substantial changes” in the state’s election recount and expects to re-certify President-elect Joe Biden as the winner. News of the looming recount results is yet another blow to President Donald Trump, who continues to baselessly claim widespread voter fraud in the state and

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