Vaccine doses given outnumbered new cases 10-to-1 this week in the U.S.; Biden: I don’t “have the conscience” to agree to smaller bill; GOP plots a path forward after votes expose fractures in party;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Johnson & Johnson asks FDA for emergency use authorization of CVOVID-19 vaccine; CDC to give guidance on schools in coming week; CDC director says schools should re-open, WH says those remarks made in “personal capacity”; New study: convalescent plasma treatment, touted by Trump admin, may have fueled COVID mutation; Biden administration considering sending masks to all Americans; Biden: “can can’t do too much… but we can do too little”; WH “not going to sit here and wait” for GOP on COVID bill; Top Obama economist warns Biden COVID relief plan is to big; U.S. economy adds only 49K jobs in January, amid sluggish recovery; Republicans forced to define party post-Trump; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green on Trump: “the party is his”; 11 house republicans vote to punish Greene for pushing conspiracy theories; 61 voted to rebuke Cheney over impeachment; GOP Sen. Sasse faces censure in Nebraska for opposing Trump; Sen. Sasse: “politics isn’t about the weird worship of one dude”; GOP factions battle for the future of the party; Biden’s national security council meets in situation room; Top members of Biden’s national security council meet about Iran after regime’s recent uptick in nuclear activity; Fight over killer methane gas hearts up between Biden & TX gov.; TX governor threatens flood of lawsuits over Biden admin’s plan to change energy laws; TX governor vows to protect state’s oil & gas industry from “hostile attack” from, Biden admin; Beloved NC high school employee dies from COVID; 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	Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper and we begin today with our health lead.
0:05.5	It has been and continues to be a cold dark COVID winter, but we in the United States are
0:11.3	finally seeing the first signs of light on the pandemic front.
0:15.4	There is now a third vaccine, Johnson and Johnson just asked the FDA for emergency use authorization.
0:21.8	Cases are down 50 percent since the U.S. reached its peak almost a month ago.
0:27.2	Cases are also down nearly 13 percent since last week.
0:31.0	And more Americans are finally getting shots.
0:34.0	The number of vaccines administered this week out numbers new cases of COVID, 10 to 1.
0:40.2	But that's not to say that serious struggles do not remain.
0:43.8	Getting schools reopened remains a significant logistical and political challenge.
0:49.3	Vaccinations still need to ramp up.
0:50.8	The spread is not yet under control.
0:53.2	And more as CNN's Lucy Kaffinov reports.
0:58.6	The fight against COVID-19 progressing on three fronts today.
1:02.6	More shots, more sites, and more vaccines heading towards approval.
1:07.7	New York's mega vaccination site opening up at Yankee Stadium this morning.
1:11.8	I was in and out two seconds.
1:13.4	In Maryland, the back parking lot at six flags now a mass vaccination center.
1:18.4	The idea eventually is to build an infrastructure that can handle millions of vaccines.
1:25.3	And in Northern California, Oakland's Coliseum and Levi Stadium now vaccination hubs.
1:31.1	American troops joining the fight against COVID, the Biden administration announced it will
1:35.0	deploy 1000 service members across the country to help with vaccination efforts.
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