(Photo : Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump depart Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on December 31, 2020 in Washington, DC.
President Donald Trump recalled 2020 s historic victories in his year-end message while President-elect Joe Biden looked forward to 2021.
Trump highlighted his administration s work after weeks of vowing to fight for his White House spot. We have to be remembered for what s been done, he said.
Trump returned early from vacation on Thursday before delivering the year-end message, reported CBS 7.
On the other hand, Biden appeared with his wife Jill Biden from their home on ABC s Dick Clark s New Year s Rockin Eve with Ryan Seacrest.
Florida became the United State s third state to report the more contagious COVID-19 variant that was first found in the United Kingdom.
NBC Miami reported that the first suspected case of a more contagious variant of COVID-19 in Florida was a man in his 20s who lives in Martin County.
The Florida Department of Health on Thursday said he has no recent history of travel.
The state s reporting of the new COVID-19 variant came as the U.S. surpassed 20 million cases on Friday. Reuters data showed that it only took 25 days to go from 15 million to 20 million.
The first U.S. case of the new COVID-19 strain was reported in Colorado on a man in his 20s with no recent travel history.
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A nurse holds up a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNtech COVID-19 vaccine in it at the Jackson Memorial Hospital on December 30, 2020 in Miami, Florida.
Operation Warp Speed did not appear to be moving fast enough as a jarring analysis found that it could take almost 10 years to inoculate all Americans at current pace.
An analysis by NBC News showed Tuesday that it would take 10 years for Operation Warp Speed to vaccinate its goal of 80 percent of the country s population by the end of June 2021.
According to the analysis, in order to meet the goal, more than three million Americans have to get inoculated per day. So far, only two million people in total were vaccinated.