Pfizer vaccines being given in U.S.; Moderna vaccine expected to be authorized this week; Trump refuses to accept election results after electoral college confirms Biden win; Biden campaigns in crucial Georgia senate runoffs; McConnell: “we’re not leaving” without a COVID deal;
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 15 December 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Fauci: “bittersweet” to see vaccines happening the same time COVID-19 is surging in the U.S.; U.S. medical workers start receiving COVID-19 vaccine; FDA panel document: Moderna vaccine safe, 94.5% effective; Moderna claims vaccine can prevent infection, not just severe disease; Biden transition: will announce “soon” when Biden and Harris will be vaccinated;
Sen McConnell congratulates Biden & Harris on win; Sources: VP Pence likely to get COVID vaccine by Friday; Trump retweets call to send GA Gov & Sec of State to jail over election results; GOP official in GA gets death threats after criticizing Trump; GOP election official: Trump fueling potential acts of violence;
Biden spoke to McConnell, will meet “sooner than later”; Biden: “it’s time to turn the page” after electoral college win; CNN: Biden to nominate Buttigieg as transportation secretary; McConnell to GOP senators: don’t object to election results at January 6th session;
Now: congressional leaders meeting to talk COVID, govt. funding; Bipartisan deal splits stimulus into two parts; Survey: 71% of Americans say they will get COVID vaccine; 52% of black Americans say they want to wait and see before getting COVID vaccine; Most black Americans wither want to “wait and see” or are refusing to get vaccine; How do you build trust in vaccine in black community?;
U.S. govt agencies breached by Russian-linked hackers; Homeland security, agriculture, and commerce among U.S. agencies hit by Russian-linked hackers; Beloved respiratory therapist dies of coronavirus;
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper, and we begin today with the Health Day site we have all been waiting for. |
| 0:07.0 | Americans receiving coronavirus vaccine injections. |
| 0:11.0 | Every single state in the nation now has doses of |
| 0:14.5 | Pfizer's vaccine and a second vaccine could be authorized for Americans this week. |
| 0:19.9 | Today an FDA advisory committee released a document confirming that |
| 0:23.6 | modern as coronavirus vaccine is safe and 94.5% effective. But Dr. |
| 0:29.9 | Anthony Fauchy notes that this is bittersweet because we are seeing what he calls the light at the |
| 0:34.8 | end of the tunnel while the pandemic is worse than ever before in the United States. |
| 0:39.7 | Daily new infections are soaring. |
| 0:42.0 | The peaks we saw in the spring and summer have now been |
| 0:44.2 | far surpassed. Right now the US is seeing an average of more than 215,000 new cases |
| 0:51.2 | each and every day. |
| 0:53.0 | 215,000. |
| 0:54.0 | And a record number of Americans are so sick, |
| 0:57.0 | they're hospitalized. |
| 0:58.0 | 110,000 as of right now, |
| 1:01.0 | and the U.S. has now marked more than 302,000 deaths from the virus. |
| 1:05.0 | As CNN's Alexandra Field now reports. |
| 1:09.0 | Our latest defense against the virus now deployed to all 50 states. |
| 1:13.7 | 425 more sites across the country receiving shipments of vaccines today. |
| 1:18.6 | Congratulations. |
| 1:19.9 | More frontline hospital workers in New York City are lining up for their first shot in the arm. |
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