This week, California state officials announced that an effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom had secured the number of signatures needed to qualify for the ballot this fall. Only two governors have ever been recalled, which includes California’s in 2003 — when Gray Davis was booted and Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected.
Axios Re:cap digs into how California politics got to this point, if this effort has its own Schwarzenegger, and what we can expect to see this fall with L.A. Times staff writer Phil Willon.
The Biden administration announced plans Monday to share 60 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine with other countries.
The U.S. has been criticized for how little it shared so far — for example, it has sent just 4 million AstraZeneca doses to our neighbors in Mexico and Canada, even though they’ve asked for many more.
Plus, how the Census is redrawing the congressional map.
New data shows that around 8% of Americans who have gotten a first dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines have missed their second doses. That figure, compounded with data on vaccine hesitancy more broadly, doesn’t bode well for the U.S. reaching a vaccination threshold that allows for a return to normalcy some time soon.
Axios Re:Cap digs into those numbers and what they tell us about vaccine hesitancy with health policy expert Dr. Zeke Emanuel, who advised President Obama and served on President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 task-force.
