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“We just can’t get it and we can’t get it on any reliable path. It’s very difficult,” Holy Name Medical Center CEO Michael Maron told CNBC.

The request comes after an alarmingly slow start to the national vaccine rollout, with the country millions of injections short of initial projections.

“One thing that’s clear is that the issue of getting 100 million doses in the first 100 days is absolutely a doable thing,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said on Sunday.

Democratic governors criticized the Trump admin for apparently misleading public health officials about holding a stockpile of Covid-19 vaccines in reserve.

The Biden administration will also “quickly jumpstart” efforts to make the vaccines available at local pharmacies across the U.S.

Since the disclosure, Siemens Energy has “steadfastly refused” to assure GE that documents containing the trade secrets have been destroyed, the lawsuit says.

“It was very disturbing. And it was, it was very, very hard to watch,” Verma said of the attack on the Capitol, having witnessed events unfold from her office.

A more infectious coronavirus strain first identified in South Africa is “disturbing” and could pose a threat to Covid antibody drugs, Dr. Anthony Fauci said.

Moderna doesn’t expect to have clinical trial data on its coronavirus vaccine in young children until 2022, CEO Stephane Bancel said.

A record amount of young people in Israel are contracting the virus accounting for a record one quarter of the most serious Covid cases

“We’re going to continue to see mortality in the 2,500-5,000 a day range,” CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield told the McClatchy news agency in an interview.

The White House coronavirus task force said there could be a new variant of the virus that evolved in the U.S. and is driving spread, a document obtained by NBC News said.

It’s likely that the variant is already circulating in Texas, because the man had no prior travel history, the state’s health commissioner said in a statement.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom canceled his scheduled coronavirus update on Wednesday after a mob of protestors stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Israel braces for a third national lockdown even with the nation seeing success in the rollout of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.

If England doesn’t implement a new lockdown, the nation’s health system will become overwhelmed in 21 days, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said.

Moncef Slaoui told CBS that Operation Warp Speed is looking at giving half doses of the Moderna vaccine to certain groups to speed up the Covid vaccine rollout.

“We can be fairly confident this variant is now everywhere,” Mercedes Carnethon, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University, told MSNBC on Friday.

The Covid-19 pandemic is snapping airlines’ decade-long streak of profits.

“We have real and grave concerns about these sudden changes to the Pfizer vaccine regime,” the Doctors’ Association UK said on Thursday.

“We agree that that number is lower than what we had hoped for,” Moncef Slaoui, chief advisor of Operation Warp Speed, said Wednesday.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said just over 11.4 million doses had been distributed as of Tuesday, short of the federal government’s goal.

“We want to send a clear signal … that if you violate the law on these vaccinations, we will find out and you will be prosecuted,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

A New York-based healthcare provider is under investigation for potential fraud, accused of illegally obtaining and distributing the vaccine, NBC New York reports.

The CDC said President Donald Trump will sign the order on Friday, Christmas Day. It will go into effect starting Monday.

Demand for meat alternatives has grown and will continue to rise, but the industry still has hurdles to overcome in different parts of the world, analysts said.

Trump’s attack is holding up $8.75 billion in desperately needed funding states thought they were getting to help pay for vaccine distribution.

President Donald Trump suggested he may not sign a long-delayed coronavirus relief package.