May 11 WATCH: Dr. Walensky encourages youth to ask for vaccine By Associated Press The director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is "encouraging children to ask for the vaccine" after regulators on Monday expanded the use of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine to children as young as 12. Continue reading
Apr 09 WATCH LIVE: COVID-19 Task Force gives update as variants drive fear of a fourth surge of cases By Laura Santhanam Public health officials say a fourth surge of cases could be a devastating blow to the country as states have relaxed restrictions designed to prevent the spread of the virus. Continue reading
Mar 12 WATCH: White House COVID-19 task force offers update on pandemic By Laura Santhanam These remarks came after Congress passed the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act and President Joe Biden signed it into law Thursday. Continue reading
Mar 05 WATCH: White House COVID-19 response team holds briefing By Zeke Miller, Linda A. Johnson, Jonathan Lemire, Associated Press The White House says two new mass vaccination sites will soon be open, in Atlanta and Cleveland, each with the ability to provide 6,000 daily coronavirus shots. Continue reading
Feb 25 Get whatever COVID-19 vaccine is available, Fauci says By Associated Press Dr. Anthony Fauci says it’s a race “between the virus and getting vaccines into people” and “the longer one waits not getting vaccinated, the better chance the virus has to get a variant or a mutation.”… Continue reading
Jan 29 Watch 6:34 Fauci on the efficacy of new vaccines and preparing for coronavirus variants The drive to get more coronavirus vaccines into more arms is gaining momentum, with two new COVID vaccines possibly accelerating the effort. Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH and… Continue watching
Jan 29 Fauci says clinical studies will show if it’s safe by early summer to vaccinate kids for COVID-19 By Associated Press The results could influence the debate over how to safely reopen public schools. Continue reading
Jan 28 Trust in COVID-19 vaccines is vital to control the pandemic. Why are some hesitant? By Laura Santhanam 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. Continue reading
Jan 22 Fauci says lack of candor on virus likely cost lives By Associated Press Dr. Anthony Fauci says a lack of candor and facts about the coronavirus pandemic under President Donald Trump “very likely” cost lives because it delayed getting sound scientific advice to the country. Continue reading
Jan 21 WATCH: White House press secretary Jen Psaki gives news briefing with Dr. Anthony Fauci By Associated Press Fauci said the new administration would “be completely open and honest” in dealing with the pandemic and, in an implicit rebuke to the Trump administration, said everything now would be “based on science and evidence.”… Continue reading