Congressional Leaders Meet to Discuss Stimulus
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Senator Chuck Schumer on his way to meet with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Representative Kevin McCarthy. They have agreed that any additional pandemic aid should be wrapped into the year-end spending measureCredit.Anna Moneymaker for The New York Times
Congressional leaders scrambled on Tuesday to reach agreement on a stimulus bill and a catchall omnibus funding package to keep government funding flowing, meeting to try to hammer out critical spending deals ahead of a Friday deadline.
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Covid-19 Updates: First U.S. Vaccines Are About to Be Shipped as Virus Ravages America
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With Pfizer’s vaccine cleared for emergency use on Friday, states eagerly began their own preparations to receive the vaccine within days. Deaths are rising sharply in college towns.
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UPS said it would transport doses of the vaccine from storage sites in Michigan and Wisconsin to its air cargo hub in Louisville, Ky.Credit.John Sommers Ii/Reuters
UPS and FedEx, normally rivals, are working side by side to ship the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the first of the vaccines to win U.S. government approval.
Covid-19: F.D.A. Clears Pfizer Vaccine and Millions of Doses Will Be Shipped Right Away
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The accelerated timeline comes after President Trump’s chief of staff threatened the F.D.A. head’s job if he didn’t get it done on Friday. The Trump Administration will buy another 100 million doses of Moderna vaccine.
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Freezer units at a United Parcel Service center await shipments of Covid-19 vaccines.Credit.UPS/EPA, via Shutterstock
The Food and Drug Administration authorized Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use on Friday, clearing the way for millions of highly vulnerable people to begin receiving the vaccine within days.