The United States continues to see COVID-19 cases and deaths on the rise, in what is turning out to be the biggest surge of the virus in America to date.
President-Elect Joe Biden has vowed to get 100 million doses of a vaccine distributed to Americans in his first 100 days in office.
Joe Biden has now announced three key objectives for his first days in office, which has been crafted in consultation with Dr. Anthony Fauci. Biden aims to use his first 100 days to take the coronavirus pandemic head on.
“I’m absolutely convinced that in 100 days, we can change the course of the disease and change life in America for the better,” Joe Biden said in remarks from Wilmington, Delaware.
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Biden is working on a comprehensive plan to fight the surging COVID-19, which stands in contrast to the Trump administration, who critics say have completely given up on the pandemic.
Biden’s plan includes requiring Americans to wear a mask for the first 100 days in office when he can legally enforce compliance in places such as in federal buildings and on interstate travel, airplanes, trains and buses.
“It’s near the end of one of the toughest years we’ve faced as a nation,” Biden said.
“Out of our collective pain, we’re going to find collective purpose to control the pandemic, to save lives and to heal as a nation.”
The rest of Biden’s potential health team includes California Attorney General Xavier Becerra helming the Department of Health and Human Services and Dr. Vivek Murthy, current co-chair of the president-elect’s coronavirus advisory board as U.S. surgeon general.
Rochelle Walensky has already been selected as Biden’s choice to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This would be a big milestone to hit for the Biden administration and one that is sure to rub Trump the wrong way considering he was clearly upset at the initial news of a Covid-19 vaccine likely being available to the public by years’s end with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announcing a dramatic breakthrough mere days after the election.
Trump took aim and hammered away. “Pfizer and others even decided to not assess the results of their vaccine, in other words, not come out with a vaccine, until just after the election”, Trump said.
Reuters wire service reported that Moderna said its experimental vaccine is 94.5% effective vs. COVID-19, based on interim data from a late-stage clinical trial. And Breitbart News told in referring to Pfizer:
[Trump] accused the companies of purposely delaying the vaccine results, noting that they had planned to assess the data as early as October, but postponed it.
As Trump claimed, “they waited and waited and waited, and they thought they’d come out with it a few days after the election, and it would have probably had an impact, who knows, maybe it wouldn’t have. I’m sure they would have found the ballots someplace … the Democrats.”
Then declared that drug companies ran millions of dollars of ads against his campaign because of what he planned to do to reduce drug costs. Trump seems to think numerous outside forces are conspiring against him.
“We had Big Pharma against us, we had the media against us, we had Big Tech against us. We had a lot of dishonesty against us.” Does he make a valid argument?
