The Latest: Fauci says vaccinate Biden, Harris, Trump, Pence
Alter, Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, at NIH in Bethesda, Md., Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)WASHINGTON โ The Latest on President-elect Joe Biden (all times local):7:30 a.m.Top U.S. infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci says President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris should be vaccinated for COVID-19 as soon as possible. Speaking to ABC's โGood Morning Americaโ on Tuesday, Fauci said, โFor security reasons, I really feel strongly that we should get them vaccinated as soon as we possibly can." Fauci says Vice President Mike Pence should get vaccinated, too. Biden pointedly criticized President Donald Trump for threatening core principles of democracy even as he told Americans that their form of self-government ultimately โprevailed.โRead more:โ In a first, leading Republicans call Biden president-electโ Biden returns to Georgia as validator for Ossoff, Warnockโ Trump says Barr resigning, will leave before Christmasโ Under attack from Trump, institutions bend but donโt break
Nobel ceremonies go low-key this year because of coronavirus
In this Sunday, Dec. 6, 2020, photo provided by Nobel Prize Outreach, Louise Glck stands beside the medal awarded to her for the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature outside her home in Cambridge, Mass. The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies were altered this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. (Daniel Ebersole/ Nobel Prize Outreach via AP)STOCKHOLM โ The pomp and ceremony of the Nobel prize ceremonies have been reined in this year amid measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Instead, their achievements will be recognized and rewarded at low-key ceremonies where they live and work in Europe and the United States. A Nobel prize comes with a 10-milion krona ($1.1 million) cash award โ to be shared in some cases โ diplomas and gold medals.
3 win Nobel medicine prize for discovering hepatitis C virus
Alter, Charles M. Rice, and Michael Houghton who jointly won the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, for their discovery of the hepatitis C virus. โFor the first time in history, the disease can now be cured, raising hopes of eradicating hepatitis C virus from the world,โ the Nobel Committee said in announcing the prize in Stockholm. Without such treatment, the virus can lead to permanent scarring of the liver, liver cancer or the need for a transplant. Later, Rice developed lab tools and methods that confirmed the hepatitis C virus could cause liver disease in chimpanzees and humans, directly contributing knowledge that led to tests and treatments. Hepatitis C drugs were around $40,000 when they first came out less than a decade ago.