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The future president of the United States, Joe Biden, has spoken of a “tragic milestone” in view of the highest number of deaths from coronavirus in the United States in 24 hours. “More than 3,000 deaths in a single day, the highest death toll during this pandemic,” Biden said Friday in Wilmington, Delaware. “That’s more dead in a single day than we had on September 11 or at Pearl Harbor.”
Biden referred to the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in December 1941. Biden again asked the United States Congress to end the month-long negotiations. duration and a new aid package to resolve the crisis.
For the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the death toll in the United States surpassed 3,000 in a single day. According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University, the number of new registered infections was more than 200,000 in recent days. Biden announced on Tuesday a 100-day program to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, which he plans to implement immediately after taking office on January 20.
Trump’s pressure on the drug agency
Meanwhile, current President Donald Trump lobbied the FDA. In a brutal tone, he asked the FDA for immediate approval of the corona vaccines. FDA chief Stephen Hahn should get “the damn vaccines out NOW,” Trump wrote on Twitter Friday. “Stop gambling and start saving lives!” The FDA called the president a “big, old, slow turtle.”
The White House was apparently pressuring the US FDA to launch the corona vaccine. Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reportedly told FDA Chief Stephen Hahn to resign if the corona vaccine was not released by late Friday. The Washington Post and the AP news agency reported unanimously.
According to the Washington Post, the threat prompted the FDA to reschedule its vaccine release schedule from Saturday morning to Friday night. The FDA and vaccine maker Pfizer would hurry, he said. The FDA had issued a statement earlier that morning saying it would “work quickly to shut down and obtain an emergency license.” Hahn was one of the signatories. On Thursday, an agency advisory committee approved the use of the vaccine from Pfizer and Biontech.
Biden continues to expand his team
Future President Biden also introduced other senior cabinet members and government officials he had nominated on Friday.
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Your candidate for that Office of the Minister of Agriculture is Tom vilsackwho held the position under President Barack Obama.
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Minister of Housing and urban development supposed to be the current congressman Marcia fudge be.
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the Department of Veterans Affairsn should Denis McDonough chief, who was, among other things, Chief of Staff of the White House under Obama.
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The return to the White House is also expected Susan rice: Biden would like to join former national security adviser Director of the National Policy Council of the White House.
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Biden’s candidate for the US Trade Representative Office is Katherine Tai. If approved by the Senate, she would be the first American with Asian roots in office.
Since his election victory, Biden has received praise for his personnel decisions in his own party, as well as in the liberal public. Criticism has been voiced in recent days for the first time.
