Headline Roundup • December 29th, 2020
Vaccine Distribution Continues, Alongside Concerns About Access
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HuffPost
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called out Donald Trump’s administration for bungling the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and laid out his own plans for quickly immunizing as many Americans as possible.
“The Trump administration’s plan to distribute the vaccine is falling behind ― far behind,” Biden said from Wilmington, Delaware.
“As I long feared and warned, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should,” he said, adding that if the current pace continues, “it’s going to take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people.”
...Several red states are eschewing federal recommendations for vaccine distribution and prioritizing the elderly and vulnerable over essential workers, in the hopes of saving more lives.
Texas, Florida, South Dakota, and Tennessee have decided to focus on groups that are the most at risk of death, including those with chronic conditions and elderly people who are 65 and up. That is a different distribution plan than the one recommended in mid-December by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which said that certain essential workers and those age 75 and...

The Hill
Margaret Keenan, the first person outside of trial to receive Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, received her second dose on Tuesday, making her the first patient to be fully immunized against the coronavirus.
Sky News reports that Keenan received her second dose at Coventry's University Hospital, three weeks after her first dose was administered on Dec. 8.
Upon receiving her first dose of the vaccine earlier in December, Keenan told reporters that it was a “privilege” and “the best early birthday present I could wish for."
"We were delighted to welcome Margaret...
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