The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is reviewing two emergency use authorization requests for COVID-19 vaccines, with an outside advisory committee scheduled to meet next Thursday to review data from Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.
Axios Re:Cap digs in with former FDA commissioner Rob Califf about the EUA process, the science and who should make the final call.
Two weeks ago, the Wayne County Board of Canvassers in Michigan met to certify the presidential election results and both Republican members refused. The two Democratic canvassers voted to approve the results. That meant it was a tie. A few hours later, the Republicans relented — there was another vote, and the certification happened.
It wasn’t just these Republicans in Michigan. A Republican Secretary of State in Georgia, a Republican county supervisor in Arizona and Republican-appointed judges in Pennsylvania were among the state and local officials who ended up validating Joe Biden’s presidential win over Donald Trump in the presidential election.
Did it all come down to these few people?
Plus, President Trump wants to auction drilling rights in Alaska’s Arctic Wildlife Refuge.
And, a new genealogy database dedicated to enslaved people and their stories.
America yesterday lost 2,762 people to COVID-19, per the CDC, bringing the total pandemic toll to 272,525. That's more than the population of Des Moines, Iowa. Or Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Or Toledo, Ohio.
Axios Re:Cap speaks with Alex Goldstein, creator of the @FacesofCOVID Twitter account, about sharing the stories behind the statistics.
We're getting closer to the vaccine finish line with three promising candidates. Distributing this vaccine will be a challenge everywhere, but especially in states that have large rural areas like Alabama, where a three-phase plan to get the state vaccinated is being finalized next week.
Plus, the logic behind the CDC’s new quarantine guidelines.
