Hello and welcome back to Morning Announcements.

I'm guest host Elise Morales of The Betches Up newsletter and podcast.

Let's get into it.

Yesterday, U.S. regulators gave full approval to the Pfizer-Bion tech vaccine for people age

16 and older.

This makes Pfizer the first of the three U.S. COVID vaccines to receive full approval as

all three vaccines had been under emergency authorization until now.

Don't worry, Moderna and J&J, I'm sure your time will come soon.

Public health experts hope this move will enable more employers to mandate the vaccine and

help to eliminate hesitancy among people who said they wanted to wait until full approval.

As for the ones who think it's a microchip, they'll do their own research.

Now let's move on to the should we say dubious audit of the 2020 election results being

conducted in Arizona's Maricopa County.

The audit hit a snag yesterday delaying the expected release of the results this week

after the firm conducting the audit, which is called Cyber Ninja, announced that the majority

of its team, including its CEO, had contracted COVID and become, and I quote, quite sick.

Oh my god, it's almost like this pandemic thing is real.

And finally, Andrew Cuomo is officially out in New York.

In a farewell speech to New Yorkers yesterday, Cuomo lamented his unfair treatment all,

and reminded us all about his many achievements as governor, but not that whole nursing home

thing.

And because he loves New Yorkers so much, he left us with one parting scandal.

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