More than 1M US teens, children have been infected with COVID-19. Biden named 9 top White House appointees. It's Tuesday's news.
More than 1 million children have been infected with COVID-19. Joe Biden announced his White House staff picks. And in another episode of "Dolly Parton Saves America," she helped fund a vaccine.
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More than 1M US teens, children have been infected with COVID-19
Evidence increasingly shows that young people are not immune to the coronavirus. The number of U.S. infants, children and teens diagnosed with COVID-19 has surpassed 1 million, according to data released Monday by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association. The total of nearly 1.04 million kids was recorded Nov. 12 and includes 112,000 new cases, which were added last week. That was the highest weekly total of any previous week in the pandemic, the academy said. The report shows that children are still generally more likely than adults to have mild cases. At least 6,330 pediatric hospitalizations and 133 deaths have been recorded since May. But while the mortality rates remain low, some experts worry that a rise in cases among children may mean a rise in cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children later.
Jen O'Malley Dillon, Biden's campaign manager, will become deputy chief of staff.
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Steve Ricchetti, a longtime Biden adviser and lobbyist, will become counselor to the president.
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Rep. Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, who was national co-chairman of Biden's campaign, will become senior adviser to the president and director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
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Mike Donilon, chief strategist for the campaign, will become a senior adviser to the president.
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Dana Remus, the campaign's general counsel, will become counsel to the president.
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden greets Rep. Cedric Richmond, D-La., left, as he arrives at Columbus Airport in Columbus, Ga., on Oct. 27, 2020, to travel to Warm Springs, Ga. for a rally.
Trump lawsuits challenging the election handling could be upended
A federal appeals court ruling may have torpedoed several federal lawsuits that seek to overturn Trump's all-but-certified defeat by Biden. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Friday that Pennsylvania voters and a congressional candidate could not use certain constitutional arguments to back their claims that some voters were disadvantaged by changes to election rules spurred by the coronavirus pandemic and U.S. Postal System delays. On Monday, Trump supporters who used similar constitutional arguments in federal lawsuits in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin voluntarily dismissed their claims.
That headline probably didn't make much sense, but try singing it to the tune of Dolly Parton's "Jolene." Why? America has Dolly to thank (at least in part) for the promising Moderna vaccine. Dolly donated $1 million to help fund the vaccine, which has been found to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection by 94.5% in preliminary trials. Parton has long been a patron of philanthropy (and saving America). There are still months to go before the vaccine becomes widely available to the public, pending Food and Drug Administration approval and peer review. But Parton's help gave a glimmer of hope to everyone affected by the virus and fans of the icon's work.
Country legend Dolly Parton announced on social media on April 1 she's donating $1 million to Vanderbilt University Medical Center to fund research of the coronavirus.
The Pentagon has announced plans to reduce troops levels to 2,500 in both Afghanistan and Iraq, leaving a residual force in both countries as Trump is scheduled to leave office. The announcement comes one week after Trump sacked senior leaders, including former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and installed a slate of officials who support his aim. The U.S. has had troops in Afghanistan since October 2001 following the 9/11 terror attacks. Currently, there are about 4,500 troops in Afghanistan and 3,000 in Iraq.
President Donald Trump speaks to the troops during a surprise Thanksgiving day visit at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, Nov. 28, 2019.
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