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1.20pm GMT
Axios have an exclusive interview with HHS secretary Alex Azar airing tonight on HBO, and they’ve just dropped a clip of it, in which Azar says he hopes life will be back to normalcy by the fall of 2021.
HHS @SecAzar tells @mikeallen he expects “any adult in the U.S.” will be able to get a COVID vaccine by mid-2021. Allen: “So packed ... NFL stadiums. Next fall?”Sec. Azar: “That is my hope.”Watch the full #AxiosOnHBO interview this Monday at 11 pm ET/PT on all HBO platforms. pic.twitter.com/cbegzHX7oK
My expectation is that next year, we return to normalcy in our lives, thanks to the incredible work of Operation Warp Speed and these vaccines, as well as the therapeutics to take care of people.
1.08pm GMT
Kira Lerner and Indrani Basu write for us today on how amid the pandemic, US poll workers risked their health to handle the election:
On 5 November, two days after election day, an employee in the Onondaga county, New York, Board of Elections office went home early. She felt exhausted, according to election commissioner Dustin Czarny, and assumed the long shifts were to blame.
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