Im amara walker. We begin this Holiday Weekend with a grim reality. The u. S. Has surpassed 13 million coronavirus cases. This following a thanksgiving day that saw more than 100,000 new infections and over 1200 deaths despite 20 states not reporting any data on the holiday. One of our nations top Infectious Disease experts now warning that the postholiday case surge will be destabilizing for the u. S. Health care system, economy and homeland security. Nearly 90,000 people are spending this holiday in the hospital. And wheres the president . On a golf course for the 307th time during his presidency while still focusing on the election he lost. Today marks three weeks since the race was called for joe biden, but President Trump has yet to formally concede defeat. Meanwhile, a member of bidens coronavirus Advisory Board says the president elect will stick to the science and let Health Experts decide who gets the vaccine first. This as the cdcs independent Vaccine Advisory Committee sched
Going on, the president was publicly lashing out on steven hahn on twitter for not getting this done faster and having his own staff and chief of staff lash out to him privately because we are told that mark meadows did call dr. Hahn this morning and basically, complaining if they did not get this coronavirus authorized, this emergency authorization granted by the ends of the d ofe may not have a job. The job security of the fda commissioner now in question after the white house steve of staff told him to be prepared to resign if his agency doesnt grant emergency use authorization of pfizers vaccine by the ends of the day. Sources say mark meadows called dr. Steven hahn this morning after President Trump spent the week venting that the uk had already rolled out vaccines. Top Government Health officials have said emergency authorization is in the works. The fda informed pfizer that they do, intend, to proceed towards an authorization for their vaccines. Reporter but things arent moving
Easier to store. Lets begin this morning with cnns athena jones who is following the latest on the first confirmed case of the uk variant here in the United States. What more do we know . Reporter good morning. This is the last thing this country needs, to have a more contagious version of an already very contagious virus. The country hasnt been able to get under control. This was this variant was discovered on tuesday in a man in his 20s in elbert county, colorado, and this is now a second suspected case also in elbert county. Both men were working in an assisted living facility, a small facility with about 25 patients and they were only there they were serving nonclinical roles and were only there because they were filling in and helping with Staff Shortages after a recent covid outbreak at the facility that cost at least two people their lives just in the last two and a half weeks. Now, the state Health Department has dispatched a Rapid Response team to this facility in selma, color
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A mobile food pantry will be making an appearance in Temple from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday at the Olin E. Teague VA Medical Center at 1901 Veterans Memorial