President Trump tweeted Sunday night that he had withheld an administrative order to prioritize giving the COVID-19 vaccine to White House staff, but that he would vaccinate against the virus “in a timely manner.”
Why this is important: NIAID Director Anthony Fucci says 75% -80% of Americans should be vaccinated against the corona virus to achieve herd immunity. Vaccine adoption is a matter of hope, and trust in most companies has hit the bottom line.
- Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the vaccine suspicion was “of great concern to all of us” because he urged people to “ignore all those terrible conspiracy theories.”
- National Security Council spokesman John Ulliot said in a statement on Sunday that vaccination was a priority for U.S. officials in three government branches across the country.
Note: Biden, who was elected president before the FDA issued emergency application approval for Pfizer-Bioentech’s corona virus vaccine, said he would vaccinate as soon as it was deemed safe.
Large image: The first batch of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines left Michigan early Sunday.
- The product contains a small number of vaccines, and the CDC recommends prioritizing high-risk groups, including health workers and long-term care facility residents.
By numbers: According to Johns Hopkins, viral diseases and deaths continue to rise across the United States. Nearly 300,000 Americans have died from COVID-19, and nearly 16.3 million have tested positive.
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