Bidens honors front-line workers at New York management: “We owe them, we owe them, we owe them.”

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President-elect Joe BidenJoe Biden: Trump to interrupt trip to Florida and return to Washington on Thursday, Intel vice president says government agency cyber attack “may have started earlier” Trump administration declassifies unconfirmed intelligence on China’s Rewards to U.S. Forces in Afghanistan: MORE Report and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, honored front-line workers in a New Year’s Eve speech Thursday during ABC’s “New Year’s Rockin ‘Eve” broadcast from Times Square.

The show’s host, Ryan Seacrest, asked Biden and the future first lady what they would like to say to front-line workers in New York City and across the country who have worked to fight the coronavirus pandemic this year.

“My mom had an expression,” Biden said. “Courage resides in all hearts and one day it will be summoned. [In] the people we honor tonight were summoned and they stepped up and they are brave, they did a lot, ”the president-elect told Seacrest.

“They risked their lives, they’ve done a lot for us and we owe them, we owe them, we owe them,” Biden added.

“We’re very grateful for everything they did. You know, they left their families and their homes so we could be safe and I, all Americans really appreciate what they did for us,” Jill Biden added.

Health workers have been constantly at the forefront of the pandemic and many nurses, doctors and hospital staff have lost their lives to the disease.

Bidens’ address comes as the coronavirus continues to ravage the United States. According to data collected by Johns Hopkins University, the country has recorded more than 19 million cases of coronavirus since the beginning of the pandemic and more than 344,000 deaths.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this month approved Pfizer / BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for emergency use and the federal government has worked to administer vaccines to protect people at higher risk. including front-line health workers.

Still, it looks like the Trump administration will not achieve its goal of vaccinating 20 million people by the end of 2020.

A tracker from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that only about 2 million people have received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine. Thursday afternoon, Anthony FauciAnthony Fauci: Found a contagious variant of coronavirus in California, the governor says the U.S. reaches a daily high with 3,725 coronavirus deaths. The rate of vaccination is lower than estimated, which causes MORE alerts, the nation’s top infectious disease expert said the deployment of vaccines was “disappointing.”

Biden himself attacked the administration during the vaccine launch on Tuesday, saying the plan to deliver the vaccines “was far behind”.

Seacrest asked his hopes for the president-elect for the new year.

“I’m more optimistic about America’s chances than ever and I’ve been around that for a while,” Biden said.

“We have the most productive workers in the world. We have now found vaccines available and they will work if people can only get a better way to get them faster. It seems to me that ‘we are in a situation where we need to step up again, make the world and lead the nation “.

He added: “Americans can do anything and I am absolutely, positively, confident (sure), we will come back and come back even stronger than we were before.”

“Things will get better, America,” Jill Biden said at the end of her address.

“Keep the faith,” Joe Biden urged.

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