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As of Monday, 50% of the adult population in the United States had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and 33% were fully vaccinated. In another metric milestone, more than 80% of seniors have had at least one shot, and nearly two thirds are fully jabbed.
Now that the (adult) glass is half full, how do we fill it? Four months into the campaign, the initial surge of vaccinations still has momentum, as we’ve averaged more than 3 million shots a day in early April. In pockets of America here and there, however, unused doses are evidence of flattening demand.
Ten Democratic and progressive senators are urging US President Joe Biden to back India and South Africa’s appeal to the World Trade Organization to temporarily relax intellectual property rules so coronavirus vaccines can be manufactured by nations that are struggling to inoculate their populations.
The lawmakers, in a letter delivered to the White House on Thursday, wrote that Biden should “prioritize people over pharmaceutical company profits” and support the temporary waiver that could pave the way for generic or other manufacturers to make more vaccines, particularly in low- and middle-income countries who have struggled to gain access to doses.
10 More Lawmakers Join Lawsuit Against Trump for Inciting Capitol Riot
Then-President Trump speaks at a rally on October 15, 2020, in Greenville, North Carolina.
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Ten Democratic lawmakers are joining as plaintiffs in a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump over his role in the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6.
The lawsuit, filed earlier this year by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Mississippi) and the NAACP, is targeting Trump as well as his former lawyer Rudy Giuliani and two recognized hate groups, the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys, by invoking a little-known law that was passed in the Reconstruction era.
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Nadler added: “This violence was anything but spontaneous; it was the direct result of a conspiracy to incite a riot, instigated by President Trump, Rudolph Giuliani, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.”
Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and Trump’s close ally, and both far-right groups are also listed in the complaint as being culpable for the Capitol violence. Both the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys face accusations of white supremacy and domestic terrorism.
The House Democrats joined their colleague Rep. Bennie Thompson
The revised complaint was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., by the NAACP and law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll.