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  • March 8, 2021 State announces COVID-19 vaccine eligibility for K-12 educators, early childhood professionals, and staff
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AP-NORC poll: Only half in US want shots as vaccine nears

By Hobbs News-Sun
December 9, 2020
in :  National/World News
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WASHINGTON (AP) — As states frantically prepare to begin months of vaccinations that could end the pandemic, a new poll finds only about half of Americans are ready to roll up their sleeves when their turn comes. The survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research shows about a quarter of U.S. adults aren’t sure if they want …

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Pfizer vaccine moves closer to getting the OK with science evaluation

By Hobbs News-Sun
December 8, 2020
in :  National/World News
1,418

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators Tuesday released their first scientific evaluation of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine and confirmed it offers strong protection, setting the stage for the government to green light the biggest vaccination effort in the nation’s history. The analysis by Food and Drug Administration scientists comes ahead of a Thursday meeting where the FDA’s independent advisers will debate if …

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Biden picks Xavier Becerra to lead HHS, coronavirus response

By Hobbs News-Sun
December 7, 2020
in :  National/World News
1,204

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his administration’s coronavirus response. Separately, Biden picked a Harvard infectious disease expert, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And he announced a …

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Next for Biden: Naming a health care team as pandemic rages

By Hobbs News-Sun
December 3, 2020
in :  National/World News, State/Regional News
3,343

WASHINGTON (AP) — Up soon for President-elect Joe Biden: naming his top health care officials as the coronavirus pandemic rages. It’s hard to imagine more consequential picks. Already one prominent candidate to lead the Department of Health and Human Services has faded from the scene. New Mexico Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham was offered another Cabinet post — interior secretary …

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High court blocks NY coronavirus limits on houses of worship

By Hobbs News-Sun
November 26, 2020
in :  Law and Courts, National/World News
4,472

WASHINGTON (AP) — As coronavirus cases surge again nationwide the Supreme Court late Wednesday barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as hard hit by the virus. The justices split 5-4 with new Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the majority. It was the conservative’s first publicly discernible vote as a justice. …

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Pfizer seeking emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine in US

By Hobbs News-Sun
November 20, 2020
in :  National/World News
1,677

(AP) — Pfizer said Friday it is asking U.S. regulators to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine, starting the clock on a process that could bring limited first shots as early as next month and eventually an end to the pandemic — but not until after a long, hard winter. The action comes days after Pfizer Inc. and its …

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Biden calls for ‘transition’ from oil, GOP sees opening

By Hobbs News-Sun
October 23, 2020
in :  Business, National/World News
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(AP) —  Democrat Joe Biden’s remark that he would “transition” away from oil in the U.S. in favor of renewable energy drew quick attention Thursday night from President Donald Trump, who saw it as a boon to his election chances in key states. “I would transition away from the oil industry, yes,” Biden said in the presidential debate’s closing minutes …

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GOP-led Senate panel advances Barrett as Democrats boycott

By Hobbs News-Sun
October 22, 2020
in :  National/World News
1,476

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans powered past a Democratic boycott Thursday to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate, keeping President Donald Trump’s pick on track for confirmation before Election Day. Democratic senators refused to show up in protest of the GOP’s rush to install Trump’s nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader …

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Trump has COVID-19, is “fatigued,” given experimental drugs

By Hobbs News-Sun
October 2, 2020
in :  National/World News
1,699

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House said Friday that President Donald Trump remains “fatigued” after contracting COVID-19 and has been injected with an experimental antibody cocktail for the virus that has killed more than 205,000 Americans and spread to the highest reaches of the U.S. government. President Donald Trump will spend a “few days” at a military hospital after contracting …

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Biden vows to defeat Trump, end US ‘season of darkness’

By Hobbs News-Sun
August 21, 2020
in :  National/World News
1,805

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Joe Biden accepted the Democratic presidential nomination with a vow to be a unifying “ally of the light” who would move an America in crisis past the chaos of President Donald Trump’s tenure. In his strongest remarks of the campaign, Biden spoke Thursday night both of returning the United States to its traditional leadership role in …

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