U.S. President Donald Trump waves as he boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., December 23, 2020. Tom Brenner | Reuters President Donald Trump on Sunday said he will attend protests in Washington, D.C. on Jan….
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Joe Biden says Trump’s Covid vaccine effort far short its own goals
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday criticized the Trump administration’s effort to distribute and administer Covid vaccine shots, saying that the administration has failed to meet its own goals. “The Trump administration’s plan to distribute vaccines is falling behind, far behind,”…
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How Joe Biden can accelerate the transition to clean energy
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks about the recent massive cyber attack against the U.S. and also other Biden administration goals in Wilmington, Delaware, December 22, 2020. Leah Millis | Reuters As we enter the third decade of the 21st century,…
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Biden to invoke Defense Production Act to spur Covid vaccine production
President-elect Joe Biden plans to invoke the Defense Production Act after he takes office next month to boost production of coronavirus vaccines, a member of his Covid-19 advisory team said Monday. “You will see him invoking the Defense Production Act,”…
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Biden advisor Dr. Atul Gawande was in Moderna trial
Dr. Atul Gawande, a coronavirus advisor to President-elect Joe Biden, told CNBC on Wednesday he participated in Moderna‘s Covid-19 vaccine trial. “My mother, at 84, said, ‘I want to give back,’ so she signed up for the trial. I said if…
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Biden warns Covid vaccine won’t stop deaths of ‘tens of thousands’ Americans in the months to come
President-Elect Joe Biden delivers remarks before the holiday at The Queen in Wilmington, Delaware on December 22, 2020. Alex Edelman | AFP | Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Americans to remain “vigilant” over the holidays, adding that…
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Biden to push for more payments in next Covid plan
US President-Elect Joe Biden delivers remarks before the holiday at The Queen in Wilmington, Delaware on December 22, 2020. Alex Edelman | AFP | Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden will push for a third round of stimulus checks in the…
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Joe Biden receives Covid vaccine, encourages public to get inoculated
US President-elect Joe Biden receives a Covid-19 vaccination from Tabe Masa, Nurse Practitioner and Head of Employee Health Services, at the Christiana Care campus in Newark, Delaware on December 21, 2020. Alex Edelman | AFP | Getty Images President-elect Joe…
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Biden to pick North Carolina environmental regulator to run EPA
Michael Regan listens as North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper announces that Regan will lead the Department of Environmental Quality in North Carolina, at the Executive Manson in Raleigh, N.C. Jan. 3, 2017. Chuck Liddy | AP President-elect Joe Biden will…
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Biden advisor urges trust, says politics didn’t sway approval
A health advisor to President-elect Joe Biden on Monday urged Americans to have confidence in Covid-19 vaccines, telling CNBC the regulatory review for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine adhered to scientific protocols. “We know that this process that has been used by…
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Biden picks Xavier Becerra, current California AG, to lead Health and Human Services
Xavier Becerra, California’s attorney general, center, speaks during a news conference outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden will select Xavier Becerra, the attorney general…
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U.S. Covid-19 Vaccine Chief to meet Biden transition team this week
Dr. Moncef Slaoui, vaccine expert, delivers an update on “Operation Warp Speed” in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, DC on November 13, 2020. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images President Donald Trump’s coronavirus vaccine czar…
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Trump rushes drilling in Arctic Wildlife Reserve before Biden takes office
A polar bear keeps close to her young along the Beaufort Sea coast in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska in a March 6, 2007 file photo. Susanne Miller | Reuters The Trump administration announced Thursday that it will auction off drilling rights…
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Biden Covid advisor ‘relieved’ about Dr. Scott Atlas resignation
President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid advisory board member Dr. Celine Gounder told CNBC that she is “relieved” upon hearing news that President Donald Trump’s special advisor on the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Scott Atlas, formally resigned from his post. “I am relieved…
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Small business confidence hits all-time low after Biden election
A survey of small business owners across the U.S. finds confidence dropping to an all-time low after Biden’s election victory with fears that taxes will go up and regulations become more onerous. Boston Globe | Boston Globe | Getty Images…
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Birx hopes to brief Biden Monday on coronavirus
Response coordinator for White House Coronavirus Task Force Deborah Birx speaks as President Donald Trump listens during the daily briefing on the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on April 21,…
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Biden team receives Operation Warp Speed briefing after weeks of delays
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden‘s transition team has been briefed on America’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters Tuesday. Azar said that on Monday evening Rear Adm. Erica Schwartz, the official leading the transition…
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Trump coronavirus vaccine chief has had ‘no contact’ with Biden transition team
Operation Warp Speed chief advisor Dr. Moncef Slaoui has had “no contact” with the Biden administration regarding the transition process and the vaccine distribution process. Since President-elect Joe Biden won the election, President Donald Trump has refused to concede and his campaign has…
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Biden will announce first Cabinet picks on Tuesday: chief of staff
U.S. President-elect Joe Biden removes his face mask as he meets with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) at his transition headquarters in the Queen theater in Wilmington, Delaware, U.S., November 20,…
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Biden Covid Advisory Board Member Dr. Michael Osterholm in Healthy Returns livestream
President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board member Michael Osterholm joins Meg Tirrell for a special edition of the Healthy Returns: The Path Forward livestream series. Osterholm is an epidemiologist and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. They…
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Here’s what young voters want to see from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris
CNBC’s “College Voices 2020” is a series written by CNBC fall interns from universities across the country about coming of age, getting their college education and launching their careers during these extraordinary times. Colette Ngo is a senior at Chapman…
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Biden to rejoin Paris Climate Accord. Here’s what happens next
WILMINGTON, DE – NOVEMBER 19: President-elect Joe Biden answers a reporter question after he delivered remarks at the Queen in Wilmington, Delaware on Thursday, Nov. 19, 2020. (Photo by Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images) The Washington Post |…
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Biden Covid Advisory Board Member Dr. Michael Osterholm
[The stream is slated to start at 12:10 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player below at that time.] President-elect Joe Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board member Michael Osterholm joins Meg Tirrell for a special…
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Biden Covid advisor says more people ‘will get infected and die’ the longer Trump delays transition
More people will be infected with Covid-19 and could die the longer the Trump administration delays the transition process and avoids coordinating the vaccine’s distribution, a coronavirus advisor to President-elect Joe Biden said on Thursday. Trump has refused to concede…
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Trump Covid vaccine czar hopes work not disrupted by Biden transition
Dr. Moncef Slaoui, who oversees the Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine program, told CNBC on Monday he hopes its work to fast-track development is not interrupted by a transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden. “We’re not going to be distracted…
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President-elect Biden says he wouldn’t hesitate to get the coronavirus vaccine
President-elect Joe Biden said on Monday that “he wouldn’t hesitate” to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, and the only reason people are hesitant about the vaccine’s safety is because of President Donald Trump. “It’s important that people who are in…
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Biden holds joint meeting with union leaders and retail, auto, tech CEOs
WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden hosted a joint meeting Monday with labor union leaders and the chief executives of major tech, retail and auto companies. The business leaders at the virtual meeting were General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Microsoft president…
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Biden team to meet with coronavirus vaccine makers this week
President-elect Joe Biden discusses protecting the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and his health care plans during a news conference in Wilmington, Delaware, November 10, 2020. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President-elect Joe Biden’s coronavirus advisors will meet with the leading drug…
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Trump should work with Biden transition team on coronavirus
Dr. Anthony Fauci Testifies Before Senate On Federal Response To Pandemic Alex Edelman | Getty Images Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, said on Sunday that the Trump administration should start working with President-elect Joe Biden’s team…
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Top Biden advisor says national lockdown ‘measure of last resort’
Pedestrians wear protective masks while walking along El Paso Street in downtown El Paso, Texas, U.S., on Monday, Nov. 9, 2020. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images A national lockdown of businesses and schools is a “measure of last resort,”…
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Biden Covid advisor warns Thanksgiving travel is like ‘pouring gasoline on a fire’
A member of President-elect Joe Biden‘s coronavirus task force on Friday urged Americans to avoid traveling over Thanksgiving, saying it would only make the pandemic in the United States worse. “Right now we have a fire blazing and to me…
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Biden Covid advisor says U.S. lockdown of 4 to 6 weeks could control pandemic and revive economy
Dr. Michael Osterholm, Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health, and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, announced advances for COVID-19 testing in Minnesota, Wednesday, April 22, 2020 in…
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IBM CEO sent President-elect Biden a letter. Here’s why he wrote it
The technology industry has had an up-and-down relationship with President Trump, even though for many tech stocks, the Trump presidential first term has been up and to the right on the trading chart. Apple CEO Tim Cook received kudos for…
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Biden puts health care front and center with a call to expand Obamacare
WILMINGTON, DELAWARE – NOVEMBER 09: U.S. President-elect Joe Biden speaks to the media after receiving a briefing from the transition COVID-19 advisory board on November 09, 2020 at the Queen Theater in Wilmington, Delaware. Mr. Biden spoke about how his…
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President-elect Biden on Obamacare’s Supreme Court challenge
[The stream is slated to start at 2 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks Tuesday afternoon in Wilmington, Delaware, on the challenge to Obamacare…
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How Joe Biden plans to fight the coronavirus pandemic
The U.S. can expect increased Covid-19 testing, a national mask policy and the possibility of nationwide lockdowns once President-elect Joe Biden takes office Jan. 20. The Biden-Harris campaign laid out a step-by-step plan for addressing the coronavirus pandemic that includes…
Read More Biden coronavirus advisor Osterholm says U.S. is ‘about to enter Covid hell’
The coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. will face its darkest period so far over the next three to four months as cases continue to surge above 100,000 per day, a newly appointed coronavirus advisor to President-elect Joe Biden said on Monday….
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