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Cody Howard is standing at a makeshift pulpit under an overpass preaching about the COVID-19 vaccine. Less than a week before the Inauguration, when vaccines were still restricted to the most vulnerable, and even they were frantically refreshing their computer browsers to find appointments, Biden's COVID-19 response team was planning for the days when there would be too many vaccines. After he received a Spanish-language printout from the CDC explaining how mRNA vaccines work, he rolled up the sleeve of his white work shirt one morning in June to get his shot. [Extracted from the article]

Biden unveiled his infrastructure proposal on March 31, and before that, Jayapal and a small group of other progressive lawmakers met with the White House twice to talk strategy, she says. Biden doesn't support Medicare for All--which is one of Jayapal's signature policies--and he's more moderate on most economic issues than Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, whom Jayapal endorsed in the presidential primary. [Extracted from the article]

A dozen guests at the Rose Garden event would announce they'd contracted the virus, including two Republican Senators, Trump confidants Kellyanne Conway and Chris Christie, and three members of the White House press office. The White House refused to say when Trump had last tested negative, and did not fully trace his contacts or cooperate with local public-health officials in the places the President had traveled. The President stood triumphant on the White House balcony, having persuaded his doctors to submit to his will. [Extracted from the article]