100M Vaccine Doses, Severe Storms Aftermath & NFL's Amazon Deal- Friday, March 19th, 2021
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Erica Mandy
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🗓️ 19 March 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
The news to know for Friday, March 19th, 2021!
What to know about:
- President Biden's promise to give out 100 million vaccine doses in his first 100 days: where it stands and where else in the world the U.S. will send millions of doses
- why lawmakers clashed in a hearing about Asian American discrimination
- where the worst of the aftermath is from severe storms this week
- the NFL's massive media deals that will change where you can watch some of the big games
- a wristband in the works that could read your brain waves... sort of
- how some Reddit users are using their Wall Street gains for good
Those stories and more in around 10 minutes!
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Sources:
First Vaccine Goal Reached: Politico, AP, NPR, ABC News
U.S. Sending Doses to Mexico and Canada: NY Times, AP, BBC, Reuters
Euro Nations Resume AstraZeneca Shots: CNBC, WSJ, CNN, EMA
Anti-Asian Discrimination Hearing: ABC News, NY Times, USA Today, WaPo
Biden Visiting Atlanta: AJC, Politico, NBC News
Severe Storm Aftermath: Weather Channel, CBS News, CNN, WaPo, NOAA
First Day of Spring: USA Today, NJ.Com, Farmers Almanac
Asteroid to Pass by Earth: CBS News, Fox News, NASA
Facebook Shows Off Neural Wristbands: The Verge, MIT Technology Review, Buzzfeed, Facebook
NFL Signs Media Deals: NY Times, Axios, CNBC, NFL
AMC Opening Nearly All Theaters: AP, Bloomberg, MarketWatch, AMC
Feel Good Friday: WallStreetBets Donates to Gorilla Charity: The Verge, Business Insider, CNN, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today is Friday, March 19th, what to know about President Biden's promise to give out |
| 0:04.4 | 100 million vaccine doses within his first 100 days, where it stands, and where else in |
| 0:09.3 | the world the U.S. will send millions of doses. Also, white lawmakers clashed in a hearing |
| 0:14.1 | about Asian American discrimination, and were the worst of the aftermath is from severe storms |
| 0:18.8 | in tornadoes this week. Plus, we're talking about the NFL's massive media deals that will change |
| 0:24.0 | where you can watch some of the big games, a wristband in the works that could read your brainwaves, |
| 0:29.0 | sort of, and how some Reddit users are using their Wall Street gains for good. |
| 0:35.7 | Welcome, welcome to The Newsworthy, all the days news in around 10 minutes. |
| 0:40.1 | Fast, fair, fun, and on the go. I'm Air Commandy, thanks so much for being here. |
| 0:45.2 | You're ready? Let's do this. |
| 0:50.7 | Today, the U.S. is expected to give out its 100 million to COVID-19 shot since President |
| 0:55.6 | Biden took over, and that means the U.S. is ahead of his initial goal. |
| 0:59.4 | Remember, President Biden promised to get 100 million doses into American's arms within his |
| 1:03.9 | first 100 days in office. Well, today is day 58. Of course, the vaccine program was first |
| 1:09.7 | launched under former President Trump, and another 16 and a half million doses were given out |
| 1:14.0 | in Trump's last five weeks in office. So, there's a long way to go, but Biden says he plans to |
| 1:18.9 | announce his next vaccine goal next week, and he's already promised there should be enough vaccines |
| 1:24.0 | for everyone by May. The U.S. is planning to start sharing some vaccine doses as well, though it |
| 1:29.7 | won't impact that timeline. The Biden administration says it's sending out four million doses of |
| 1:34.5 | the AstraZeneca vaccine that have been in a stockpile. That version of the vaccine is not yet |
| 1:39.9 | authorized here in the U.S., but it does have the okay in Mexico and Canada, so that's where they're |
| 1:45.1 | headed. The shipments will go out as alone, but the U.S. getting future doses of vaccines later on. |
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