U.S. tops 344,000 Covid deaths and 19.9 million cases

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Fauci calls failure to vaccinate 20 million “disappointing”. “At least a handful” of GOP senators could join election challenge next week; “Will definitely be a spectacle”. 42 people mistakenly given antibody instead of Covid vaccine in Wet Virginia. 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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1:02.4	We're following breaking news, the US coronavirus This is a CNN Situation Room special report.
1:02.7	We're following breaking news.
1:04.0	The US coronavirus death toll has now top 344,000 people
1:08.2	and the country is on the verge of 20 million confirmed cases.
1:11.7	That's the same number of vaccines.
1:13.2	The Trump administration said
1:14.8	it planned to administer by years end,
1:16.7	but on this New Year's Eve,
1:18.3	fewer than 3 million Americans have been vaccinated.
1:20.9	A failure, Dr. Anthony Fauchy calls disappointing.
1:24.1	Also breaking this hour the futile effort by some Republican lawmakers to overturn the
1:28.7	election is gaining steam. A Republican source told me a short time ago that at least a handful of
1:33.8	GOP senators are expected to join the election challenge next week when the
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