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Just hours after CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield testified about the importance of wearing masks and a potential vaccine timeline, President Trump openly contradicted him at a White House press briefing. The president insisted the doctor "made a mistake" and "misunderstood the question probably" during his testimony to Congress. Weijia Jiang reports.
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Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday gave a speech on the coronavirus vaccine development in Wilmington, Delaware. Before laying out his own plans, Biden warned against leaving the distribution of a potential vaccine in the hands of the Trump administration. CBSN Political Reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns joins Lana Zak with the details of Biden's speech, including his comments on implementing a national mask mandate.
President Trump said he thought the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, was "confused" when he testified before senators earlier in the day that a coronavirus vaccine won't reach the general public until around the summer of 2021. During the same press conference, Dr. Scott Atlas, one of Mr. Trump's advisers, said the administration expected to have hundreds of millions of doses of a vaccine produced by the end of March. Watch their remarks.
Philanthropist bashes White House's pandemic response, calling it "a mismanaged situation every step of the way."
Dean of Brown University School of Public Health says it is critical that vaccine researchers be transparent and public about their trials, protocols and data
Huge global trial was halted after a single participant showed a possible adverse reaction, but the U.K.'s independent safety regulator cleared it to resume.
COVID-19 vaccine developers push ahead as cold weather looms. Many Americans are hesitant to be first in line for the vaccine. Dr. Ashish Jha joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss.
Approval of a vaccine, however, will depend on federal regulators, Albert Bourla said.
The former FDA commissioner says the vaccine will be used "almost in a therapeutic sense" in its initial months.
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Gottlieb said the White House did not have the information they needed from federal health officials to make decisions.
The following is a transcript of an interview with Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla that aired Sunday, September 13, 2020, on "Face the Nation."
Albert Bourla says the drugmaker has manufactured hundreds of thousands of doses.
Almost since news of the pandemic first broke, politics became the lens through which many Americans, and our government, took the coronavirus seriously, or not
President Trump delivered a speech in Pennsylvania today honoring the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. CBS News White House correspondent Paula Reid joins CBSN to recap his remarks and talk about some of the latest news from Washington.
Experts say the FDA has a rigorous process for vetting any COVID-19 treatment, though there is a loophole.
Today marks six months since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global pandemic. Dr. Bob Lahita joined CBSN to walk us through what we can expect in the months ahead as the race for a vaccine intensifies with the flu season around the corner.
Researchers say not enough minorities are taking part in clinical trials for coronavirus vaccines, even as minority groups are affected at much higher rates. Adriana Diaz reports.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's leading infectious diseases expert, discusses new developments in the race for a COVID-19 vaccine.
British drug company AstraZeneca says it still expects to know the efficacy of its coronavirus vaccine by the end of 2020, provided trials can resume promptly. Plus, the Trump administration reportedly considers ending some airport health screenings, and New York City allows limited indoor dining for the first time in more than six months. Internal medicine physician Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider joins CBSN to talk about the latest news on the pandemic.
AstraZeneca announced it is pausing its phase 3 trial of a possible COVID-19 vaccine after one participant came down with an unexplained illness. Dr. Matthew Heinz joins CBSN for a closer look at what this means, plus the special concerns surrounding the coming flu season and when people should get their flu shots.
Many top scientists say a coronavirus vaccine could be ready before the end of the year, and President Trump has even said it could happen by Election Day. But it's a very challenging process CBS News' Natalie Brand reports on the latest developments, and Elaine Quijano of CBSN's "Red & Blue" discussed that deadline and how scientists conduct clinical trials with Dr. Wilbur Chen, associate professor of medicine at the University of Maryland, and chief of the Adult Clinical Studies Section within the Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health.
AstraZeneca abruptly halted its coronavirus vaccine trial after a participant developed neurological symptoms, but it's not yet known whether it was caused by the vaccine. Nikki Battiste reports.
Fauci stuck by his earlier projection that the safety and effectiveness of a vaccine will be known by the end of the year.
President Trump signed a government funding package at the White House late Wednesday, formally ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
After 43 days and more than a dozen attempts to reopen the government, President Trump signed the funding package, passed by the Senate and House, into law.
An effort to force a House vote on compelling the Justice Department to release materials related to Jeffrey Epstein secured the final signature it needed Wednesday.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries told CBS News that GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was his ally during the government shutdown, after she spent weeks blasting her fellow Republicans.
The three emails appear to be exchanges between convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as the author Michael Wolff and Epstein.
Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman defended his voting record and addressed the criticism he's received from some in his own party for meeting and sometimes voting with President Trump.
The full list of victims in the UPS plane crash has been identified. Mayor Craig Greenberg said the final death toll was 14.
A federal judge has ordered that hundreds of people detained by ICE be released from federal facilities in the next week because their arrests were possibly unlawful and in violation of a federal court order.
Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn in as a member of Congress on Wednesday afternoon, seven weeks after she won a special election in Arizona.