After he and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris joined with business and union leaders in his hometown of Wilmington, Del., on Monday, Biden said President Trump’s unwillingness to concede the election was “embarrassing for the country.”
The former vice president further called encouraging reports on vaccine progressions “great news,” and said he “wouldn’t hesitate” to get vaccinated if it’s considered safe by top government infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci. And Biden said that the sooner he and his team are granted access to the Trump administration’s vaccine distribution programs, “the sooner this transition would be smoothly moved forward.”
While he praised both Democratic and Republican governors for their mask orders, he avoided taking a stance on whether he'd recommend reimplementing stay-at-home orders.
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Answering questions from reporters with a week and a half to go until Thanksgiving, Biden announced that his team of public health experts suggest limiting family gathering to a maximum of 10 people, socially distanced and wearing masks, in order to prevent further spread of the virus.
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The president-elect said he and his wife, Jill Biden, “spent this morning, like many of you, trying to figure out what we are going to do for Thanksgiving. How are we going to do it? And we’ve narrowed down which family members and that they were tested, recently tested.”
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“I would strongly urge, for the sake of your children, your mother, your father, your sisters, your brothers, whoever you get together on Thanksgiving, think about this. There should be no group more than 10 people," Biden emphasized
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And in another attempt urging people to wear masks, Biden stressed that “there’s nothing macho about not wearing a mask.”
Biden spoke hours after the drug maker Moderna declared that its coronavirus vaccine was 94.5% effective, following the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer as front-runners in the worldwide race to create a vaccine to stem the worst pandemic in a century. The coronavirus has caused nearly 1.2 million deaths across the earth, and almost a quarter of a million people in the U.S.
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Though it seems that some people aren’t thrilled about the news to say the least, many tweets came through criticizing the limitations.
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Biden said, “I wouldn’t hesitate to get the vaccine if in fact Dr. Fauci and these two organizations, whether it’s Moderna or Pfizer, who have been extremely responsible, conclude that it is safe and able to be done. The only reason people question the vaccine now is Donald Trump.”
Former candidate for Florida’s Congressional district Chuck Callesto, twitted: “BREAKING REPORT: Three more New York sheriffs say they WON"T ENFORCE Cuomo's Thanksgiving limit…”
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