Traces of lead and nickel have been found in the blood of the people who contracted the mystery illness in Andhra Pradesh’s Eluru, doctors from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences have found. Nearly 400 people have been found ailing since December 5, more than 45 children below the age of 12 are among them. All complained of convulsions, nausea and fainting. One person, a 45-year-old, has died.
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called for urgent action to address the novel coronavirus pandemic. Announcing his incoming healthcare team to the media and the public, Biden laid out three COVID-19 priorities for his first 100 days in office: a call for all Americans to voluntarily mask up during those 100 days, a commitment to administer 100 million vaccines and a pledge to try to reopen a majority of the nation’s schools. “Out of our collective pain, we are going to find a collective purpose: To control the pandemic, to save lives and to heal as a nation,” Biden said Deaths from the coronavirus in the U.S. have soared to more than 2,200 a day on average, matching the peak reached last April. The average cases per day has eclipsed 200,000 for the first time ahead of more holiday gatherings.
Dr. Tam provides an update on COVID-19 cases across Canada and the amount of early doses we will be receiving from Pfizer.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday spurned a request from Republican allies of President Donald Trump to decertify Pennsylvania’s election results, foreclosing hopes that the justices would help deliver him a second term.
Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the latest in Donald Trump’s inner circle to contract the disease that is now surging across the U.S.
Bob Bauer, senior adviser to the Biden campaign and former White House counsel under Obama, joins Andrea Mitchell to discuss President Trump’s false claims of fraud and attempts to overturn the results of election. On the Trump team’s thus far largely unsuccessful legal challenges, Bauer says, “It’s not clear what they hope to accomplish. I think they’re embarrassing themselves. The courts are dismissing these cases as rapidly as they’re filing them. They’re really setting records for failures in this area.” Aired on 12/7/2020.
Nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has yet to reveal all the details of where billions of dollars in pandemic aid has gone. Only a few federal departments have released information about which individuals, groups or companies have received government money.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau assures Canadians that a vaccine is on the way, with Canada to receive up to 249,000 doses. Speaking in Ottawa, Trudeau says ‘in the month of December, pending Health Canada approval, the first shipment of doses is tracking for delivery next week.’
As President Donald Trump has become consumed with contesting the results of an election he lost, staffers acknowledge that Trump has not given many signals about what his plans will be once the Electoral College affirms President-elect Joe Biden’s win. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins reports.