CDC: Nearly 2.8 million Covid-19 vaccine doses administered

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🗓️ 31 December 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The CDC says nearly 2.8 million Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administrated despite Operation Warp Speed’s goal of 20 million by the end of the year. The White House coronavirus testing czar admits “we need to be doing a better job” with the vaccine rollout. Olivia Troye is a former Covid-19 Task Force Adviser to Vice President Mike Pence and she joins AC360 to discuss the vaccine rollout. Plus, Republican Senator Josh Hawley says he’s planning to delay the affirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory by objecting when Congress counts the Electoral College votes. This will force lawmakers in both the House and Senate to go on the record and vote on whether to accept the results of Biden’s win. Hawley’s colleague in the Senate, Democratic Senator Tim Kaine tells AC360 they’ll reject President Trump’s effort “to overthrow the will of the American electorate.” Guests on December 30, 2020 were Olivia Troye at Sen. Tim Kaine. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I have a very good evening to you, Jim Sudo here in again tonight for Anderson and tonight
0:06.0	a faster moving COVID virus meets a slow moving vaccination effort.
0:11.8	In other words, the race to immunize enough people to stop the virus when we're already
0:16.9	behind in could be getting a whole lot tougher.
0:20.7	Late today in a Facebook video chat with Dr. Anthony Fauci, California's governor said
0:25.0	the new more easily transmitted COVID strain has now been detected in his state.
0:32.8	Just an hour or so ago, we were informed that this new variant, this new strain that
0:39.0	we've identified obviously from the United Kingdom.
0:42.0	Other some other parts of the globe identified in Colorado yesterday has been identified
0:47.5	here in the state of California in Southern California.
0:52.4	Fauci's reaction, he's not surprised.
0:55.0	All the same, it now raises the stakes and adds to it as already a grim and worsening
1:00.2	picture.
1:01.4	New forecasting tonight from the CDC now projects up to 424,000 COVID deaths by the
1:08.0	23rd of next month.
1:10.3	That's as many as 83,000 more lives lost over just the next three weeks or so.
1:16.6	And it comes after the worst single day on record for reported deaths in this country,
1:20.9	3,725 of our fellow Americans in 24 hours, including a 41 year old incoming U.S.
1:29.8	congressman from the state of Louisiana, Luke Letlow, who died of complications from the
1:34.8	virus.
1:35.8	He leaves behind a wife and two young children.
1:39.4	And as the numbers show, there are so many tragedies now like his.
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