Trump’s aggressive stance on virus treatments raises concerns about putting politics ahead of safety
4 years, 4 months ago

Trump’s aggressive stance on virus treatments raises concerns about putting politics ahead of safety

CNN  

CNN — As President Donald Trump races to reassure Americans that good news is on the way before the November election, there are concerns that efforts to fast-track coronavirus therapeutics and a vaccine are putting politics before health and safety. The document’s bullet points include, “Develop a Vaccine by The End Of 2020” and “Return to Normal in 2021.” “And frankly, in terms of quality, if you look at what we’re doing and what we’re coming up with, drug companies are coming out with vaccines that are I’ve seen some results already – it’s going to be very, very soon – in stage three trials,” Trump told a crowd of Republican delegates as he kicked off his convention in Charlotte on Monday. At his Sunday news conference announcing the convalescent plasma news, Trump said he believed “political reasons” had slowed down FDA’s approval of the therapeutic treatment, but that he “broke the logjam” last week. I haven’t looked at that.” A prominent vaccine expert told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Sunday that the White House may have bullied the FDA into giving emergency use authorization to using blood plasma. Meadows on Monday morning also dismissed concerns that there’s political pressure to fast-track a vaccine, reiterating that the administration’s “Operation Warp Speed” will protectively produce large quantities of vaccines in phase three trials.

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Trump's brain drain: Fox News personalities tapped to become America's next top scientists, doctors
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump's brain drain: Fox News personalities tapped to become America's next top scientists, doctors

Salon  

A couple of days after the election this year I wrote that I thought a lot of the anti-incumbent movement these past couple of years had to do with unprocessed trauma from the global pandemic. It appears that Trump is intent on stacking the nation's most important health agencies with people who are hostile to modern public health science and …

Trump fills out his key public health roles
1 month ago

Trump fills out his key public health roles

CNN  

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article was first published on November 22. Trump, for his part, said on the campaign trail that he would let Kennedy “go wild on health.” US surgeon general Also known as “the nation’s doctor,” the surgeon general is a medical doctor who focuses on educating and advising Americans on how to improve their …

Trump warned his second term would mean ‘retribution’. His alarming cabinet picks show he means it
1 month ago

Trump warned his second term would mean ‘retribution’. His alarming cabinet picks show he means it

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Trump’s first wave of cabinet nominations and White House appointments, within the week after …

America will soon discover how real the ‘deep state really is': columnist
1 month, 1 week ago

America will soon discover how real the ‘deep state really is': columnist

Raw Story  

Donald Trump’s promise to tear down the federal bureaucracy could deliver major consequences for public health organizations across the United States, but his efforts will simultaneously expose how “resilient the deep state really is,” which a columnist argued Monday is “actually much more benign” than the president-elect believes. While there “really is a deep state” operating within the federal health …

Trump’s botched COVID response has been largely forgotten, but it's crucial we remember
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s botched COVID response has been largely forgotten, but it's crucial we remember

Salon  

At a campaign event in Allentown, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, former President Donald Trump asked the crowd a question Ronald Reagan also asked voters in the 1980 election against Jimmy Carter, and one many presidents before have asked. “People are still framing questions like that as if where we were four years ago was not in the early stages of a …

Virologist whistleblower under Trump shows why ex-president's return 'poses a grave risk'
2 months, 1 week ago

Virologist whistleblower under Trump shows why ex-president's return 'poses a grave risk'

Raw Story  

A former high-ranking public health official under Donald Trump sounded the alarm on the former president's potential return to the White House. "I witnessed firsthand how the Trump administration systematically undermined America’s health infrastructure," Bright wrote. "Yet a determined president could do a great deal of damage to our public health infrastructure through the installation of loyalists in key positions, …

New book claims Donald Trump gifted COVID test kits for Vladimir Putin's personal use
2 months, 2 weeks ago

New book claims Donald Trump gifted COVID test kits for Vladimir Putin's personal use

ABC  

Donald Trump secretly sent COVID tests to Vladimir Putin during the initial outbreak of coronavirus in 2020, despite a US-wide shortage, a wide-ranging book by Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward claims. Trump, who was hospitalised with severe COVID in October 2020, sent COVID test kits to Moscow for Mr Putin's personal use, Woodword wrote in excerpts published by the Washington …

Trump botched America’s pandemic response — but a 2nd term would be even more catastrophic
6 months ago

Trump botched America’s pandemic response — but a 2nd term would be even more catastrophic

Raw Story  

I think it’s important to remind yourself of the basics. READ: ‘Creepy weirdos’: Senator fears Trump WH staff would destroy government from ‘inside’ “ I don’t take responsibility at all,” Trump said in March 2020. Far-right voters oppose life-saving vaccines, so the Republican candidate is only too pleased to tell them what they want to hear.” Expect more of this …

Why Anthony Fauci approaches every trip to the White House as if it's his last
6 months, 1 week ago

Why Anthony Fauci approaches every trip to the White House as if it's his last

NPR  

Why Anthony Fauci approaches every trip to the White House as if it's his last toggle caption Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images For much of the past four years, Dr. Anthony Fauci has been the public face of the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic — a status that garnered him gratitude from some, and condemnation from others. On working with President …

Covid-19 social distancing was not based on scientific data, Fauci admits
11 months, 1 week ago

Covid-19 social distancing was not based on scientific data, Fauci admits

Hindustan Times  

Former White House medical advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci recently admitted that the Covid-19 pandemic guidelines likely lacked scientific background. The 83-year-old confessed to the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on Tuesday that “six feet” social distancing “sort of just appeared.” According to a statement released today from the committee's Chairman, Rep. Brad Wenstrup, Fauci also acknowledged that the …

President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status after 3 years
1 year, 8 months ago

President Joe Biden ends US Covid emergency status after 3 years

India Today  

The US national emergency to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic ended Monday as President Joe Biden signed a bipartisan congressional resolution to bring it to a close after three years — weeks before it was set to expire alongside a separate public health emergency. The public health emergency — it underpins tough immigration restrictions at the US-Mexico border — is …

Watch: Jamie Raskin derails GOP hearing by railing against Trump's 'lethal recklessness and lying'
1 year, 8 months ago

Watch: Jamie Raskin derails GOP hearing by railing against Trump's 'lethal recklessness and lying'

Raw Story  

During a House Oversight Committee hearing on school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic on Tuesday, Rep. Jamie Raskin slammed former President Donald Trump and his administration, calling his public health response to the emergency a "historic debacle." "You don't need to go to the American Medical Association or the American Hospital Association or the American Nursing Association to conclude that …

'Reckless' Trump slammed by final House panel
2 years ago

'Reckless' Trump slammed by final House panel

Raw Story  

A congressional panel on Friday published its final report on the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting the Friday published its final report on the Covid-19 pandemic, highlighting the Trump administration's "failed stewardship" and detailing how a "persistent pattern of political interference undermined the nation's ability to respond" to a crisis that has claimed more than a million lives in the United States. …

Biden administration extends COVID public health emergency
2 years, 2 months ago

Biden administration extends COVID public health emergency

LA Times  

White House COVID-19 response coordinator Ashish Jha speaks during the daily briefing at the White House on Oct. 11. The Biden administration said Thursday that the COVID-19 public health emergency will continue through Jan. 11, as officials brace for a spike in cases this winter. The public health emergency, first declared in January 2020 under the Trump administration and renewed …

GOP Senators Push Back On COVID Funds Request After Biden Says 'Pandemic Is Over'
2 years, 3 months ago

GOP Senators Push Back On COVID Funds Request After Biden Says 'Pandemic Is Over'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Senate Republicans expressed skepticism over whether COVID-19 funding is still necessary following President Joe Biden’s recent comments declaring the end of the pandemic. “Maybe that’s his approach to it, I’d have to ask him.” Earlier this month, Dr. Ashish Jha, the White House COVID-19 response coordinator, told reporters “the pandemic is not over,” and said the administration …

Why Biden’s bout with COVID-19 is likely to be easier than Trump’s
2 years, 5 months ago

Why Biden’s bout with COVID-19 is likely to be easier than Trump’s

LA Times  

President Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House after stepping off Marine One on Wednesday, a day before he tested positive for a coronavirus infection. The president is said to be working in isolation from the White House and “experiencing very mild symptoms,” including a runny nose, fatigue and an “occasional dry cough,” according to his physician, …

White House expands access to life-saving COVID-19 drug Paxlovid
2 years, 7 months ago

White House expands access to life-saving COVID-19 drug Paxlovid

Salon  

The White House is making efforts to expand access to life-saving COVID drug Paxlovid, manufactured by Pfizer, which previously suffered from shortages yet which now is widely available in most parts of the country. Earlier Tuesday, newly appointed White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha indicated that a persisting scarcity mentality was to blame for previous shortages. "When Paxlovid …

White House: Without Funding U.S. Will Lose COVID Treatments
2 years, 7 months ago

White House: Without Funding U.S. Will Lose COVID Treatments

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — For much of the past two years, America has been first in line for COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. Japan, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Hong Kong have all placed orders for treatments and vaccine doses that the U.S. can’t yet commit to, according to the White House. “We know companies are working on additional, promising life-saving …

Biden gets his 2nd booster shot and urges Congress to spend more on pandemic: ‘We can’t wait’
2 years, 8 months ago

Biden gets his 2nd booster shot and urges Congress to spend more on pandemic: ‘We can’t wait’

CNN  

CNN — President Joe Biden on Wednesday urged lawmakers to secure more funding for his administration’s Covid-19 response and warned of severe consequences for the nation if Congress doesn’t authorize the money. “This isn’t partisan, it’s medicine,” Biden said in a speech from the White House while urging Congress to act “immediately.” The President said without the new funding, the …

End of COVID funds? House eyes $15.6-billion plan, but outlook is dim
2 years, 9 months ago

End of COVID funds? House eyes $15.6-billion plan, but outlook is dim

LA Times  

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi gives her weekly news conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill in Washington. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the turn of events “heartbreaking.” The idea had been to add President Biden’s request for new virus aid to the massive $1.5-trillion spending bill, a must-pass measure needed by week’s end to keep the federal government operating through …

'Prepare for new COVID-19 variants': Joe Biden tells pandemic-weary Americans
2 years, 9 months ago

'Prepare for new COVID-19 variants': Joe Biden tells pandemic-weary Americans

Firstpost  

In his first State of the Union Address on Tuesday, Biden said thanks to the progress the country has made last year, COVID-19 need no longer controls the lives of the Americans. President Joe Biden has urged Americans to prepare themselves for new coronavirus variants as he launched a new initiative aimed at helping COVID-19-infected people to get tested at …

White House outlines new plan to combat COVID in US
2 years, 9 months ago

White House outlines new plan to combat COVID in US

Al Jazeera  

New preparedness plan requires more funding to restock the nation’s stockpile of tests, antiviral pills and masks. US President Joe Biden‘s administration has laid out a new national blueprint to combat COVID-19, including any possible future outbreaks of new variants, without shutting down schools and businesses. It said the additional funding would help restock the nation’s stockpile of tests, antiviral …

White House launches ‘test to treat’ COVID-19 initiative, plan toward greater normality
2 years, 9 months ago

White House launches ‘test to treat’ COVID-19 initiative, plan toward greater normality

LA Times  

Beginning this month, Americans will be able to head to their local pharmacy for a coronavirus test and, if they test positive, receive antiviral pills on the spot, at no cost to them. President Biden announced the launch of the “test to treat” initiative during Tuesday night’s State of the Union Address as he emphasized the country’s progress in battling …

Jan. 20, 2022 coronavirus pandemic and the Omicron variant news
2 years, 11 months ago

Jan. 20, 2022 coronavirus pandemic and the Omicron variant news

CNN  

Covid-19 at home test kits are seen at Davies Pharmacy in Canton, Ohio, on Wednesday, January 5. Some states say they are having a difficult time getting their hands on rapid Covid-19 tests following the US federal government’s plan to send at-home test kits to households across the country. “We have not taken a single contract away from anyone,” a …

Biden urges concern but not alarm in US as omicron rises
2 years, 11 months ago

Biden urges concern but not alarm in US as omicron rises

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden urged concern but not alarm as the United States set records for daily reported COVID-19 cases and his administration struggled to ease concerns about testing shortages, school closures and other disruptions caused by the omicron variant. In remarks Tuesday before a meeting with his COVID-19 response team at the White House, Biden aimed to convey …

Biden's major COVID speech on Tuesday will NOT be about 'locking the country down'
3 years ago

Biden's major COVID speech on Tuesday will NOT be about 'locking the country down'

Daily Mail  

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that President Biden's planned Tuesday address is 'not a speech about locking the country down,' but will focus on a drive for vaccinations. Psaki said that Biden on Tuesday will 'absolutely' address frustrations Americans feel about a lack of testing availability across the country Cars wait in line at a COVID-19 drive-through testing …

Trump tested COVID-positive pre-debate, ex-aide says in book
3 years ago

Trump tested COVID-positive pre-debate, ex-aide says in book

Associated Press  

Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before his first presidential debate in September 2020 with Joe Biden, according to a new book by Trump’s former chief of staff. In “The Chief’s Chief,” obtained by The Guardian before its Dec. 7 release, Mark Meadows writes that the then-president received a negative test shortly after the positive test and resumed …

Trump may have exposed ‘hundreds’ to COVID-19 by hiding his positive test: CNN
3 years ago

Trump may have exposed ‘hundreds’ to COVID-19 by hiding his positive test: CNN

Raw Story  

Donald Trump may have exposed hundreds of people to the deadly coronavirus if his former chief of staff is correct that he concealed a positive test result, CNN said Wednesday. "His former chief of staff has said in a new book that Trump tested positive days before the White House at the time, the administration revealed that fact to the …

White House virologist was reassigned from Covid to election fraud by 2020 obsessed Trump, new emails reveal
3 years, 2 months ago

White House virologist was reassigned from Covid to election fraud by 2020 obsessed Trump, new emails reveal

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A virologist responsible for the White House’s response to the …

Top doctors say not so fast to Biden's boosters-for-all plan
3 years, 3 months ago

Top doctors say not so fast to Biden's boosters-for-all plan

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “The plan is for every adult to get a …

DeSantis feuds with Biden White House as COVID cases rise
3 years, 4 months ago

DeSantis feuds with Biden White House as COVID cases rise

Associated Press  

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — It didn’t take much for the White House to set Florida Gov. As coronavirus cases rise across the Sun Belt, President Joe Biden asked GOP governors to “get out of the way” of efforts to contain the virus. “We will not allow Joe Biden and his bureaucratic flunkies to come in and commandeer the rights and freedoms …

Florida governor feuds with White House as state’s COVID cases rise
3 years, 4 months ago

Florida governor feuds with White House as state’s COVID cases rise

LA Times  

Ron DeSantis listens during a news conference on Aug. 3 in Miami. “We will not allow Joe Biden and his bureaucratic flunkies to come in and commandeer the rights and freedoms of Floridians.” Biden’s willingness to call out the Republican governor of Florida — as well as his colleagues in other hot spots such as Texas — marks a new …

Trump was personally terrified of Covid and thought Boris Johnson was going to die, new book claims
3 years, 5 months ago

Trump was personally terrified of Covid and thought Boris Johnson was going to die, new book claims

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Former President Donald Trump believed that Prime Minister Boris Johnson …

Trump’s close advisers urge him to make PSA to persuade his followers to get the Covid-19 vaccine
3 years, 7 months ago

Trump’s close advisers urge him to make PSA to persuade his followers to get the Covid-19 vaccine

CNN  

CNN — With polls showing that about half of Republicans are unenthusiastic about getting a Covid-19 vaccine, some of former President Donald Trump’s advisers are encouraging him to make a public service announcement urging his followers to roll up their sleeves, according to two former senior Trump administration officials. “Vaccines are widely regarded as one of Trump’s greatest accomplishments, and …

Here are 10 things the ‘pandemic doctors’ revealed to Dr. Sanjay Gupta about their time fighting Covid-19
3 years, 8 months ago

Here are 10 things the ‘pandemic doctors’ revealed to Dr. Sanjay Gupta about their time fighting Covid-19

CNN  

Watch “COVID WAR: The Pandemic Doctors Speak Out” at 8 p.m. Friday, April 2 on CNN. Asked if there was a moment when he knew the danger was going to be big, Fauci said “When I saw what happened in New York City, almost overrunning of our health care system, it was like, ‘Oh my goodness.’ “ “That’s when it …

US COVID deaths could have been ‘decreased substantially’
3 years, 8 months ago

US COVID deaths could have been ‘decreased substantially’

Al Jazeera  

Deborah Birx, Trump-era coordinator of the COVID task force, says the previous government’s pandemic response was lacking. The White House coronavirus task force coordinator under former President Donald Trump says she believes the COVID-19 death toll in the country would have been “decreased substantially” had the previous government responded more effectively in the early days of the outbreak. Dr Deborah …

Trumps vaccinated against Covid-19 before leaving White House: Advisor
3 years, 9 months ago

Trumps vaccinated against Covid-19 before leaving White House: Advisor

India Today  

Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, were vaccinated against the coronavirus in January before leaving the White House, an advisor to the former president said on Monday. "President Trump and the first lady were vaccinated at the White House in January," the advisor said without providing any further details. Trump, in a speech on Sunday, his first since leaving the …

‘Overwhelm the problem': Inside Biden’s war on COVID-19
3 years, 10 months ago

‘Overwhelm the problem': Inside Biden’s war on COVID-19

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The meetings begin each day not long after dawn. Where the last administration addressed the pandemic with the vernacular of a natural disaster — using the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s mantra of a “federally supported, state managed and locally executed” response — President Joe Biden’s team is borrowing from the Pentagon and the doctrine of overwhelming force. “We’re …

Opinion: A year into the pandemic, health care workers have a new source of hope
3 years, 11 months ago

Opinion: A year into the pandemic, health care workers have a new source of hope

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Susannah Hills is a pediatric airway surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center. After health care workers spent the last year fighting simultaneous battles against Covid-19 and misinformation about the virus — which oftentimes originated from Trump and other elected officials — the Biden administration’s support of science-based public health messaging feels like a …

Coronavirus guidelines now the rule at White House
3 years, 11 months ago

Coronavirus guidelines now the rule at White House

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. It’s a striking contrast to …

Medical experts hail President Biden's early and aggressive COVID-19 push
3 years, 11 months ago

Medical experts hail President Biden's early and aggressive COVID-19 push

Salon  

Shortly after being inaugurated, President Joe Biden signed a raft of executive orders, proclamations and memorandums, including several that attempt to more effectively tackle the coronavirus pandemic that has already taken more than 400,000 American lives. Benjamin likewise praised the decision to put the United States back in the WHO, pointing out that "this will help coordinate US efforts with …

‘Shameful': US virus deaths top 400K as Trump leaves office
3 years, 11 months ago

‘Shameful': US virus deaths top 400K as Trump leaves office

Associated Press  

As President Donald Trump entered the final year of his term last January, the U.S. recorded its first confirmed case of COVID-19. “This is just one step on an ominous path of fatalities,” said Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University and one of many public health experts who contend the Trump administration’s …

Transition: Biden’s team finds culture of coronavirus denial throughout Trump’s federal government
3 years, 11 months ago

Transition: Biden’s team finds culture of coronavirus denial throughout Trump’s federal government

CNN  

CNN — Joe Biden’s transition team found a culture of coronavirus skepticism within Donald Trump’s federal government as they prepared to take office, sources close to the Biden transition told CNN, with political appointees loyal to the President reflecting his dismissiveness of public health guidelines and sometimes mocking career employees for wearing masks. The Biden transition was subject to some …

US deaths from COVID-19 surpass 400,000 as Trump leaves office
3 years, 11 months ago

US deaths from COVID-19 surpass 400,000 as Trump leaves office

Al Jazeera  

Joe Biden, on eve of inauguration, says ‘to heal, we must remember’ those who died in pandemic. California hard-hit Public health officials have criticised the Trump administration’s COVID-19 vaccine roll-out, saying it has been slower than expected and “chaotic”. “The state has averaged 466.7 daily deaths over the last week, an increase of 32.2 percent from two weeks ago,” the …

Opinion: America’s Covid vaccine campaign is not a disaster
3 years, 11 months ago

Opinion: America’s Covid vaccine campaign is not a disaster

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. Dr. Kent Sepkowitz - I therefore would like to comment on the current profound disappointment many in the United States – from President-elect Joe Biden to prominent physicians, to talking heads parading across our screens …

Probe: Trump officials attacked CDC virus reports
4 years ago

Probe: Trump officials attacked CDC virus reports

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Trump administration political appointees tried to block or change more than a dozen government reports that detailed scientific findings about the spread of the coronavirus, a House panel investigating the alleged interference said Monday. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., said his coronavirus subcommittee investigators have found evidence of a “political pressure campaign” to “bully” professionals at the Centers for …

Biden to receive COVID vaccine as Trump remains on sidelines
4 years ago

Biden to receive COVID vaccine as Trump remains on sidelines

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “When the time is right, I’m sure he will remain willing to take it,” …

Trump fights for a job that he’s not doing as coronavirus rages
4 years ago

Trump fights for a job that he’s not doing as coronavirus rages

CNN  

CNN — When the history of the pandemic is written, one of the great mysteries will be what President Donald Trump was doing in the waning days of his presidency as the number of Covid-19 deaths in the US soared past 3,000 each day, the virus spread unchecked and Congress dithered over the details of an emergency relief package that …

What could Trump have done to produce a different election outcome?
4 years ago

What could Trump have done to produce a different election outcome?

LA Times  

Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump was, oddly, both robust and slim. A close-up of President Trump’s notes for a speech shows “Corona” crossed out in favor of “Chinese” to describe the virus. What prompted headlines, however, was Trump’s declaration that he saw himself as a “wartime president” who was asking the country to make sacrifices for the common good. …

Top US officials expected to get COVID-19 vaccine this week
4 years ago

Top US officials expected to get COVID-19 vaccine this week

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Senior U.S. officials will begin receiving coronavirus vaccines this week as part of updated federal continuity of government plans that now include terrorism and pandemics as threats to the nation, and its leaders. The effort comes after President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday that White House aides should receive the COVID-19 vaccine “somewhat later in the program.” Still, …

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