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Biden says he trusts vaccines but not Trump as president contradicts CDC head

President Trump contradicted the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the timeline for distributing a coronavirus vaccine, saying Robert Redfield misspoke when he said a vaccine wouldn’t be widely available until summer or fall 2021. In remarks in Wilmington, Del., Joe Biden expressed reservations about whether a coronavirus vaccine approved by the Trump administration would be safe, raising doubts about the president’s ability to put the health of Americans before politics.

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At least 192,000 people have died of the coronavirus in the United States. More than 6.5 million cases have been reported.
Trump on Wednesday called on congressional Republicans to support a massive economic relief bill with “much higher numbers” and stimulus payments for Americans, abruptly proposing an entirely different plan than what the Senate GOP sought to advance in recent days.
Federal Reserve leaders predict that unemployment will fall to 7.6 percent by the end of this year and to 5.5 percent by the end of 2021, even as much about the path of the virus and its influence over the economic recovery remain unknown.
Redfield told a Senate panel that his agency, which is playing a lead role in vaccine distribution, does not have the critical funds that states need for the distribution, which will take place in phases.
Michael Caputo, the Department of Health and Human Services’s top communications official, is taking a medical leave, three days after urging President Trump’s supporters to prepare for an armed insurrection and accusing government scientists of “sedition,” the agency announced Wednesday.
Five weeks after postponing its football season over safety concerns, the Big Ten Conference reversed course Wednesday, saying it would play this fall even as its colleges and surrounding communities struggle to contain the coronavirus.
A federal court ruling this week that coronavirus restrictions in Pennsylvania were too burdensome and open-ended may signal a new willingness by some courts to consider whether emergency shutdown rules can run indefinitely.
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At least 192,000 people have died of the coronavirus in the United States. More than 6.5 million cases have been reported.
Trump on Wednesday called on congressional Republicans to support a massive economic relief bill with “much higher numbers” and stimulus payments for Americans, abruptly proposing an entirely different plan than what the Senate GOP sought to advance in recent days.
Federal Reserve leaders predict that unemployment will fall to 7.6 percent by the end of this year and to 5.5 percent by the end of 2021, even as much about the path of the virus and its influence over the economic recovery remain unknown.
Redfield told a Senate panel that his agency, which is playing a lead role in vaccine distribution, does not have the critical funds that states need for the distribution, which will take place in phases.
Michael Caputo, the Department of Health and Human Services’s top communications official, is taking a medical leave, three days after urging President Trump’s supporters to prepare for an armed insurrection and accusing government scientists of “sedition,” the agency announced Wednesday.
Five weeks after postponing its football season over safety concerns, the Big Ten Conference reversed course Wednesday, saying it would play this fall even as its colleges and surrounding communities struggle to contain the coronavirus.
A federal court ruling this week that coronavirus restrictions in Pennsylvania were too burdensome and open-ended may signal a new willingness by some courts to consider whether emergency shutdown rules can run indefinitely.
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