Today's D Brief: 300M vaccinated by summer?; Manila wants money; VP’s nuclear football; Hackable earthquake trackers; And a bit more.
Ben Watson
By Ben Watson
February 12, 2021
The D Brief
As many as 300 million Americans could be vaccinated from COVID-19 by this summer, President Biden said Thursday from the National Institutes of Health. And that’s seemingly pretty good for a country of 325 million people — more than 34 million of whom have already received one vaccine dose, according to the New York Times vaccination tracker.
Said POTUS46 at NIH on Thursday: “Just this afternoon, we signed the final contracts for 100 million more Moderna and 100 million more Pfizer vaccines. And we’re also able to move up the delivery dates with an additional 200 million vaccines to the end of July — faster than we expected.â€
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