NEW: Speaker Pelosi implementing FINES for members who don't wear a mask on the House floor
$500 fine for first offense.
$2,500 for second office.
Fines will be deducted from Member pay (no use of campaign funds or MRA for fines).
— Heather Caygle (@heatherscope) January 12, 2021
The toll is rising.#Republican Congressional opposition by at least 6 Members to ???-wearing clearly led to a superspreader event during the #insurrection hunker-down. https://t.co/VQgmFJ0Pqs
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 12, 2021
At the beginning of 2021, roughly 345,000 Americans had died from #Covid19.
12 days later the death toll has topped 380,000.
To put that in context: This is almost the size of the population of Cleveland, Ohio. pic.twitter.com/JsGqs3qQMT— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) January 13, 2021
The US had +222,121 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 today, bringing the total to over 23.3 million. The 7-day moving average fell slightly to under 253,000 per day. pic.twitter.com/Ekh0QyYhLO
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) January 13, 2021
A new step in the grim dance: the United States is again ahead of the European Union in daily COVID-19 deaths, per the @FT's count. https://t.co/hrwOIauTGj pic.twitter.com/UvPyv7nbXQ
— Nicolas Veron (@nicolas_veron) January 11, 2021
Trump administration will release all vaccine doses, adopting a policy proposed by the Biden team. It now will recommend vaccinating everyone 65 & over https://t.co/GkmZykq4lp
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 12, 2021
Deleted earlier, repeating to clarify:
When you tell 152M people they can ask for vaccine NOW, but you know there won't be enough doses to fully vax all of them until at least April & you've got less than 8 days left as HHS secretary, the intention was??? https://t.co/ZdxT4YlfdS— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) January 12, 2021
Interesting to hear HHS secretary Alex Azar blame the states for being too heavy handed & slow in their allocation of #Covid19 vaccines. States are following CDC recommendations — and were told they needed to.
— Helen Branswell (@HelenBranswell) January 12, 2021
Biden's transition official says Operation Warp Speed chief adviser has resigned https://t.co/QtmeeYx5aL pic.twitter.com/OXYZMdutR5
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 13, 2021
Passengers flying to the U.S. will soon need to show proof of a negative test for COVID-19 before they board their flight. https://t.co/LDM2FC81SV
— AP Health & Science (@APHealthScience) January 12, 2021
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According to @WHO half of all #COVID19 cases & deaths are in just 5 countries. And here are their tallies as of today.https://t.co/dvk4wxW34E pic.twitter.com/RbWMZeI1pz
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) January 12, 2021
More people died in Britain last year than in any year in the past century, surpassing even the toll during the 1918 pandemic – and still some flout the precautions (including the PM) https://t.co/vfgQpj4ifb
— Michael Slackman (@meslackman) January 12, 2021
"No other choice." The Netherlands extended its tough five-week coronavirus lockdown by a further three weeks amid concerns that infection rates are not falling quickly enough and fears about a new variant first detected in the United Kingdom. https://t.co/rXIP8XDKvm
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) January 12, 2021
Even after death, COVID-19 victims in a northern Greek city are kept in isolation. @CostasKantouris speaks to relatives, saddened that their loved ones are buried in quarantine.
Read more: https://t.co/1v73NGoZXN pic.twitter.com/F7V83YqBF7
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) January 12, 2021
Sweden has registered 17,395 new coronavirus cases since Friday, taking the total above 500,000 cases since the start of the pandemic, as hospitals struggled to cope with a rampant second wave of the virus, Health Agency statistics showed on Tuesday. https://t.co/OjxiyEDOat
— Reuters Health (@Reuters_Health) January 12, 2021
A private Moscow clinic is in “direct negotiations” to bring the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to Russia before it receives official registration, a clinic representative told The Moscow Times on Tuesdayhttps://t.co/lJB5lwyNiW
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 13, 2021
Indonesia's president and top officials have received the first shot of a Chinese-made COVID-19 vaccine. The world's fourth most populated country plans to vaccinate millions of health care workers in the coming months. https://t.co/5H2pJEmXUI
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 13, 2021
Indonesia coronavirus: The vaccination drive targeting younger people https://t.co/CcOLUDGPRk
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 13, 2021
Leader of South Korean religious sect, Shincheonji, found not guilty of breaking virus control laws https://t.co/DRdxGanvQ2
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 13, 2021
Officials say the African Union has secured close to 300 million COVID-19 vaccine doses in the largest such agreement yet for Africa. https://t.co/wLGatbjFYb
— AP Africa (@AP_Africa) January 13, 2021
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6 Months after leaving the hospital, Covid survivors still face lingering health issues. A large study of patients from a Wuhan hospital showed that a half-year later 3/4 were struggling with problems like fatigue, depression & diminished lung function https://t.co/L9FwMCe2kl
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 13, 2021
Here’s what you need to know about the U.K. & South African #coronavirus variants https://t.co/D2USrM0i0C
— delthia ricks ? (@DelthiaRicks) January 12, 2021
China's Sinovac vaccine was about 50% effective, much less than initially reported but enough, public-health experts say, to be worth giving, @samanthapearson and @luciwsj report https://t.co/w3ZmrN8lot
— Jonathan Rockoff (@jonathanrockoff) January 12, 2021
U.S. to buy 1.25 million additional doses of Regeneron's COVID-19 antibody cocktail https://t.co/ElvDTVpJYS pic.twitter.com/LnuUsRbQ0I
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 13, 2021
Should I get a COVID-19 vaccine if I've had the virus? Yes. Experts say people should plan on getting vaccinated regardless of previous infection. https://t.co/vElqTg4TGT
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 12, 2021
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As the U.S. goes through the most lethal phase of the coronavirus outbreak, officials in hard-hit areas show little willingness to impose new restrictions on businesses. And unlike in 2020, opposition to forced closings and other measures is bipartisan. https://t.co/kq95u1kIQI
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 12, 2021
California COVID surge shows signs of easing with hospitals strained to brink https://t.co/VqaqGFCgWW pic.twitter.com/3Wyq9S6NK1
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 13, 2021
"Our people are happy because we let them use personal responsibility to get through the pandemic" — Kristi Noem pic.twitter.com/pKIPGD7YP7
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 12, 2021
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