• ICU Doctor On CNN: "Christmas Should Not Be Fun This Year, Okay?"

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    Dr. Andrew Pastewski, the Intensive Care Unit Medical Director at
    Jackson South Medical Center in Kendall, Florida, told CNN on Christmas
    Eve that Americans need to realize Christmas Day 2020 shouldn’t be
    enjoyable because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

    “What’s your message? It’s Christmas Eve; it’s not the only holiday
    obviously happening this month and in the coming days. There’s a lot
    that people want to celebrate and they want to find joy somewhere,”
    observed the CNN host in a Christmas Eve morning interview with Dr.
    Pastewski. “What’s your message to Americans this morning based on what
    you see and what you hope to see in the coming year?”

    “Christmas should not be fun this year, okay?” Dr. Pastewski replied
    curtly.

    “This should be part of the negative [2020] that we’ve had,” he
    continued. “But we should see the hope of New Years 2021 — that the
    vaccine is here, we are getting it.”

    “Let’s stay diligent, get the vaccine, and move forward to a 2021 where
    we don’t have to wear masks and we can all be safe and start to return
    to a normal life,” he added. “It just requires a little more work, a
    little more mask-wearing, a little more staying at home — not seeing
    the older people — and we’ll get there. And it will be one of America’s
    great triumphs to have gotten over this period, which is one of
    America’s worst periods.”

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    Under the Trump administration, two vaccines against COVID-19 have been authorized for emergency use, and around 9.5 million doses of those
    vaccines have been distributed across the United States as of Wednesday morning. The CDC also recorded more than 1 million first-round
    inoculations using the Pfizer vaccine, which was approved earlier than
    the Moderna vaccine, as of Wednesday morning, but NBC News reports that
    this figure was likely an undercount because of the way data trickles
    back toward the federal government.

    According to The New York Times, the U.S. government has secured
    contracts with Moderna and Pfizer to obtain enough COVID-19 vaccine for
    200 million American adults to receive the authorized two-dose regimen
    before the end of July 2021. The vast majority of these vaccines will
    be administered in 2021, and individual states will decide who will be
    the highest priority to receive them first.

    “We are delivering millions of doses of a safe and effective vaccine
    that will soon end this terrible pandemic and save millions and
    millions of lives,” said President Donald Trump in a video message with
    first lady Melania Trump on Christmas Eve. “We’re grateful for all of
    the scientists, researchers, manufacturing workers, and service members
    who have worked tirelessly to make this breakthrough possible.”

    “It is truly a Christmas miracle,” the president added.

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    Joe Biden went from stealing someone's wife, to stealing speeches, to
    stealing money, to stealing an election.
    He has really grown as a politician.
    -- Michael Moore

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