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U.S. NEWS Saturday 1 auguSt 2020
Fauci confident virus vaccine will get to Americans in 2021

Continued from Front House Select Subcommit-
tee on the Coronavirus Cri-
I don’t think it’s dreaming ... sis. As the health officials
I believe it’s a reality (and) were testifying, President
will be shown to be reality.” Donald Trump in a tweet
As the government’s top repeated a false claim that
infectious disease expert, high numbers of U.S. cases
Fauci heads the National are due to extensive tes-
Institute of Allergy and In- ting. Committee Chairman
fectious Diseases. James Clyburn, D-S.C.,
Under White House orders, tried to enlist Fauci to re-
federal health agencies but the president. And Rep.
and the Defense Depart- Jim Jordan, R-Ohio tried to
ment are carrying out a press Fauci into saying that
plan dubbed Operation demonstrations against
Warp Speed to deliver 300 police violence toward
million vaccine doses on a Black Americans spread
compressed timeline. That the virus and should be
will happen only after the curbed. Fauci didn’t bite.
Food and Drug Administra- “You make all kinds of re-
tion determines that one commendations,” Jordan
or more vaccines are safe Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks said, taking aim at Fauci.
and effective. Several can- during a House Select Subcommittee hearing on the Coronavirus, Friday, July 31, 2020 on Capitol “You made comments on
didates are being tested. Hill in Washington. dating, baseball, and eve-
Don’t look for a mass nati- Associated Press rything you can imagine ...
onwide vaccination right I’m just asking should we try
away, Fauci told lawma- testified at a moment when west. Testing bottlenecks absolutely a benchmark to limit the protesting?”
kers. There will be a priority early progress against the remain a major issue. we can achieve moving Fauci said it’s not his role to
list based on recommen- coronavirus seems to have Asked if it’s possible to de- forward.” While hospitals opine on curbing political
dations from scientific ad- been frittered away. High liver coronavirus test results can generally deliver in- protests. But Jordan shot
visers. Topping the list could numbers of new cases to patients within 48 to 72 house test results within 24 back, noting that church
be critical workers, such as cloud the nation’s path. hours, Giroir acknowledged hours, large commercial services have been shut
as medical personnel, or The three officials ap- “it is not a possible ben- labs that do about half the down due to virus precauti-
vulnerable groups of peop- peared before a special chmark we can achieve testing for the country take ons, and implying that Fau-
le such as older adults with House panel investigating today given the demand longer, particularly if there’s ci has a double standard
other underlying health the government’s pande- and supply.” a surge in new cases. on two First Amendment
problems. “But ultimately, mic response, itself sharply But rapid, widespread tes- The latest government data rights, religious liberty and
within a reasonable period divided along party lines. ting is critical to containing shows about 75% of test re- freedom of expression.
of time, the plans now al- Nearly 4.5 million Ameri- the pandemic. It makes sults are coming back wit- “I’m not favoring anybody
low for any American who cans have been infected it easier for public health hin 5 days, but the remain- over anybody,” Fauci ans-
needs a vaccine to get it with COVID-19, and more workers to trace the con- der are taking longer, Giroir wered. “And I don’t judge
within the year 2021,” Fauci than 150,000 have died. In tacts of an infected person. told lawmakers. one crowd versus another
said. Fauci, Redfield, and recent weeks the virus has Delayed test results only al- The bitter politics surroun- crowd. When you’re in a
Department of Health and rebounded in the South low more people to get ding the U.S. response to crowd, particularly if you’re
Human Services “testing and West, and now upticks infected. Giroir said a two- the coronavirus was evi- not wearing a mask, that
czar” Admiral Brett Giroir are being seen in the Mid- to three-day turnaround “is dent at the hearing by the induces the spread.”q

Court overturns Boston Marathon

bomber’s death sentence

By A. DURKIN RICHER others. "But make no mis- was the mastermind be-
Associated Press take: Dzhokhar will spend hind the attack. Tamerlan
A federal appeals court his remaining days locked Tsarnaev died in a gunbat-
Friday threw out Dzhokhar up in prison, with the only tle with police a few days
Tsarnaev's death sentence matter remaining being after the April 15, 2013,
in the 2013 Boston Mara- whether he will die by ex- bombing. Dzhokar Tsar-
thon bombing, saying the ecution," the judges said, naev is now behind bars at
judge who oversaw the more than six month after a high-security supermax
case did not adequately arguments were heard in prison in Florence, Colo-
screen jurors for poten- the case. Tsarnaev's law- rado. Tsarnaev's attorneys This file photo released April 19, 2013, by the Federal Bureau
tial biases. A three-judge yers acknowledged at the identified a slew of issues of Investigation shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted and
panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit beginning of his trial that with his trial, but said in a sentenced to death for carrying out the April 15, 2013, Boston
Court of Appeals ordered he and his older brother, brief filed with the court Marathon bombing attack that killed three people and injured
a new penalty-phase trial Tamerlan Tsarnaev, set off that the "first fundamental more than 260.
on whether the 27-year- the two bombs at the mar- error" was the judge's re- Associated Press
old Tsarnaev should be ex- athon finish line. But they fusal to move the case out they harbored strong opin- the case in early Decem-
ecuted for the attack that argued that Dzhokar Tsar- of Boston. They also point- ions even before the 2015 ber, devoted a significant
killed three people and naev is less culpable than ed to social media posts trial started. The appeals number of questions to the
wounded more than 260 his brother, who they said from two jurors suggesting judges, in a hearing on juror bias argument.q