Vaccinate America, a student-run club at Penn State, and University Health Services hosted a pandemic Q&A session titled “Vaxx Faxx” with four panelists in the HUB-Robeson Center s Freeman Auditorium Wednesday
the evacuation of thousands of people from kabul is going to be hard and painful, no matter when it started, when we began. there is no way to evacuate this many people without pain and loss of heartbreaking images you see on television. it s just a fact. the white house says that more than 10,000 people got out in the 24-hour period ending this morning, pushing the total evacuations up to 37,000 in the last nine days. the president is leaving open the possibility of extending the departures past his august 31st deadline, although today the taliban says that would cross their red line. there s discussions going on among us and the military about extending. our hope is we will not have to extend, but there are going to be discussions, i suspect, on how far along we are in the process. we ve got breaking news on the effort to vaccinate america
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president biden is making his push to vaccinate america as more new mask mandate go into effect. todd: griff jenkins, republicans walk maskless in defiance, things and sweet music for us. reporter: i will spare you of that. we ve come a long way since the president said this on the fourth of july. today we are closer than ever to declare independence from the deadly virus. reporter: 26 days later every federal employee must show proof of vaccination or face rigorous testing, where he mass, social distance and limit their travel they are not calling it a mandate and are sensitive to going backwards. using the mask forever. that was true at the time,