Health Feb 09 COVID-19 vaccines can adapt to new variants. Here’s what it will take Drugmakers are exploring how to tailor vaccines more narrowly to these mutants, but modifying existing vaccines is not as easy as flipping a switch.
Health Jan 28 Trust in COVID-19 vaccines is vital to control the pandemic. Why are some hesitant? Among the many coronavirus challenges the Biden administration faces, boosting public trust in the vaccine is a problem it must solve to move the U.S. past the pandemic.
Politics Jan 20 Partisan politics will pose legislative hurdles for Biden With an historic pandemic, economic crises, climate change and more confronting the country, President Joe Biden will need to respond quickly and boldly, said Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report. Unless at least nine or 10 Republican senators agree…
Politics Jan 20 What do Americans want to see from Biden’s COVID-19 response? Biden has pledged to mandate face masks nationwide as one of 17 executive actions on his first day in office. Nearly three-quarters of Americans support such a measure, according to the latest PBS…
Politics Jan 20 Biden signs first official documents as president Immediately after his inauguration, President Joe Biden signed three documents containing an Inauguration Day proclamation along with his nominations to Cabinet and sub-Cabinet positions, according to reporters present for the event. For each signature, he used a different pen and…
Politics Jan 20 Lisa Desjardins notes ‘profound’ moments of prayer Some of the most profound moments from President Joe Biden’s inauguration were those of prayer, PBS NewsHour Congressional Correspondent Lisa Desjardins tells Judy Woodruff. Biden’s message was “trying to uplift the nation” on a chilly day. People want to restore…
Politics Jan 20 Biden: ‘Without unity, there’s no peace, only bitterness and fury’ “Disagreement must not lead to disunion,” says President Joe Biden during his inaugural speech. Again, Biden pledged that he will be president of all Americans fighting just as hard for those voted for him as those who didn’t. “Without unity,…
Politics Jan 20 Biden’s favorability at 49 percent but trending upward Americans are split over how they feel about President-elect Joe Biden with 49 percent of Americans saying they see the incoming president in a positive light, according to the latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll.
Politics Jan 20 Klobuchar: ‘This is the day when our democracy…goes forward’ For more than two centuries, Americans have gathered to recognize the transition in presidential leadership, said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who called on all Americans to “rededicate ourselves to the cause” of the nation’s democracy during today’s inauguration of President-elect…
Politics Jan 20 Trump has landed in Florida Donald Trump is on the way to his Mar-a-Lago resort instead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden. Trump is the first president since Andrew Johnson in 1869 to refuse to attend the ceremony of his successor.