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☆ There are no extra COVID-19 vaccines doses left to send to states, despite Trump's health officials promising to release more 3 days ago
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-15 | by ( Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com + 0.00 time to read: +6 min

But a new report from the Washington Post says that the government hasn't actually been holding back any vaccines for second doses, and they've already been sent out. But, in fact, the Trump administration was already "taking second doses directly off the manufacturing line," according to the Post's report. "We had been holding back second doses as a safety stock. We now believe that our manufacturing is predictable enough that we can ensure second doses are available for people from ongoing production, so everything is now available." Jon Cherry/Getty ImagesOperation Warp Speed said on Thursday that nearly 30 million vaccine doses have been distributed to states so far.

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☆ As House deliberates, Senate Republicans mull starting Trump impeachment trial Friday
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-13 | by ( David Morgan | Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +7 min

Under the U.S. Constitution, impeachment in the House would trigger a trial in the Senate on whether to oust the president. At least five Republicans have said they would join Democrats in supporting impeachment, although just seven days remain for a Senate trial to expel Trump from office. 2 Democrat, said Democrats intended to send the impeachment charge, once approved, to the Senate “as soon as possible,” and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi named nine impeachment managers who would present the House’s case during a Senate trial. Hoyer told reporters he expected between 10 and 20 House Republicans to vote for impeachment on Wednesday. Democrats could also use an impeachment trial to push through a vote blocking Trump from running for office again.

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☆ Emotions run high as U.S. House begins debate on impeaching Trump
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-13 | by ( David Morgan | Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +7 min

If the House approves it, Trump would become the first president impeached twice. House impeachment of Trump would not immediately remove him from office but would set up a trial in the Republican-controlled Senate. It remained unclear whether such a trial would take place in time to expel Trump from office. As the House prepared for the impeachment vote, there were signs Trump’s hold on the Republican Party was beginning to ebb. Democrats could also use an impeachment trial to push through a vote blocking Trump from running for office again.

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☆ U.S. House charges toward Trump impeachment as some Republicans join effort
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-13 | by ( David Morgan | Richard Cowan | ) www.reuters.com + 0.00 time to read: +7 min

If the Democratic-led House approves it, Trump would become the first president impeached twice. Slideshow ( 6 images )Hoyer told reporters he expected between 10 and 20 House Republicans to vote for impeachment. As the House prepared for the impeachment vote, there were signs Trump’s hold on the Republican Party was beginning to ebb. At least five House Republicans, including Liz Cheney, a member of her party’s leadership team, said they would vote for his second impeachment - a prospect no president before Trump has faced. Democrats could also use an impeachment trial to push through a vote blocking Trump from running for office again.

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☆ Republicans say impeachment would further divide the country after Trump provoked an attempted coup, but a majority of Americans support it
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-13 | by ( John Haltiwanger | ) www.businessinsider.com + 0.00 time to read: +2 min

At least five House Republicans support impeaching President Donald Trump over the Capitol siege, but most are pushing against it and arguing that it would further divide the country. But multiple polls show a majority of Americans support the House impeaching Trump and the Senate removing him from office. As the House on Wednesday debated impeaching President Donald Trump a second time — in this case for inciting an attempted coup — numerous Republicans argued that impeachment would further divide the US. Most Americans are in favor of impeaching Trump, despite what Republicans say:A CBS News poll released Wednesday found 55% of Americans favor impeaching Trump over the Capitol siege. At least five House Republicans support impeaching Trump, but most GOP lawmakers in the chamber are against it.

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☆ Why you're not fully protected from COVID-19 after a single vaccine dose
▼ + stars: | 2021-01-05 | by ( Mia De Graaf | Hilary Brueck | ) www.businessinsider.com + 0.00 time to read: +8 min

Most COVID-19 vaccines are given as two shots, administered several weeks apart. Only weeks after a second shot should people feel secure that they have a very low chance of getting COVID-19. As 2021 begins, millions of people around the world are starting to get COVID-19 vaccines. One nurse in California got COVID-19 six days after his first shot, and another emergency-room doctor in Georgia came down with COVID-19 nine days after his first dose of Pfizer's vaccine. But it's not until a week after the second shot that the chance of falling ill from the coronavirus plummets to just 5%.

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☆ Florida and Texas have started vaccinating people 65 and older against the coronavirus, breaking with CDC guidelines
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-28 | by ( Aylin Woodward | ) www.businessinsider.com + 0.00 time to read: +8 min

Florida and Texas residents age 65 and older are now able to get coronavirus vaccines. The decision bucks CDC recommendations that say essential workers and people older than 75 should be next. Florida and Texas have started to distribute coronavirus vaccines to residents over age 65. But in Florida and Texas, essential workers have been bumped out of the next phase of vaccinations. Essential workers, however, face an increased risk of exposure to the coronavirus, and a disproportionate share are poor and non-white.

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ET Covid-19 Live Updates: Vaccinations Begin, But Some Americans Are Wary As the U.S. passed 300,000 coronavirus deaths, a new poll suggests that many in the country are skeptical of getting a shot. On the same day as the first inoculations were administered, the United States passed 300,000 deaths — more than any other country. Black Americans appear most worried about side effects, or that they could get Covid-19 from the vaccine. Dr. Jason Smith, the first Kentuckian to receive the Covid-19 vaccine, showed off the smiley-face Band-Aid a health care worker applied to his arm. Pfizer’s vaccine, developed with BioNTech, is now authorized in Britain, Bahrain, Canada, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and the United States.

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☆ U.S. administers first shots of Pfizer's Covid vaccine, launching a historic rollout
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-14 | by ( Will Feuer | ) www.cnbc.com + 0.00 time to read: +5 min

Mark Lennihan | ReutersThe United States on Monday administered the first shots of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine to health-care workers, marking a pivotal moment in the country's long march to bring the virus under control. With distribution challenges ahead and the outbreak still raging, officials and health-care workers took time Monday to celebrate the arrival of the vaccine, and the hope it represents. Across the country, images flowed in of health-care workers receiving their first shots and the first doses arriving at more than one hundred distribution sites. At the event, Cuomo thanked health-care workers for serving on the frontline of what he called a "modern-day battlefield." Hartford Healthcare officials said 15 front-line health care workers, including doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists, would be the first people in the state to receive the vaccine.

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