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By Guest Contributor | December 26, 2020
Insider NJ
By George Ball

President Donald Trump
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We are all watching the President’s latest bait and switch. Which, by the way, seems so absurdly transparent that our media pundits’ failure to clearly describe it is itself concerning.
Trump’s threatened upending of the COIVD relief effort does not target those who need relief. It targets what is left of the Republican establishment. In recent days, all 50 states have certified their electors. McConnell has stated the obvious (that Biden will be president) and told his caucus to not challenge any of the certified electors on January 6th. Trump has lost scores of legal challenges so frivolous as to be judicially sanctionable. And the Republican Senate caucus, which was unable to coalesce around a $1,200 relief payment, haltingly agreed to a $600 one.
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LILO H. STAINTON, HEALTH CARE WRITER | DECEMBER 23, 2020
NJ Spotlight News

Dec. 18, 2020: Gov. Phil Murphy (second from left) was at Hackensack Meridian Health’s vaccine clinic as vaccinations were underway.
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New Jersey officials say they are pleased with how the state’s coronavirus vaccine program has launched at hospitals, and health care and labor leaders reported few significant glitches with the process to date.
But questions remain about the pace of immunizations at the hospital-based vaccine clinics, which began administering the vaccines to at-risk health care workers early last week, and state officials declined Tuesday to provide updated data on how many sites are now operating and how many people have been immunized thus far.
In addition, efforts to track the vaccine rollout nationwide suggest some states have been better able to capitalize on federal shipments from Pfizer and Moderna, the two pharmaceutical companies whose vaccines are now approved for emergency use in the U.S.
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By Carl Golden | December 22, 2020
Insider NJ

Despite having failed to prevail in any consequential legal challenge to overturn the presidential election, President Trump and his team of conspiracy theorist attorneys — egged on by hardcore supporters and advisers, members of Congress and an element of the media —have continued to insist he was re-elected overwhelmingly and his victory stolen by massive fraud and foreign interference.
Even the most devoted Trump disciples have come to the realization — albeit it reluctantly and bitterly — that the Biden Administration will assume office Jan. 20 and the ex-president will retire to plot a takeover of the Republican Party and his comeback in 2024.
He’s made it abundantly clear he will not “go gently into that good night,” but from his redoubt in Florida will give in frequently to his itchy Twitter finger, raise millions of dollars, command as much media attention as possible and attempt to chart the future course of the party.
Given the apparently pointless strategy of litigation perseverance, it is reasonable to ask: “What is the end game here?”
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LILO H. STAINTON, HEALTH CARE WRITER | DECEMBER 22, 2020
NJ Spotlight News

Dec. 8, 2020: A nurse holds a phial of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Guy’s Hospital in London as the U.K. health authorities rolled out a national mass vaccination program.
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As New Jersey enters the second week of its COVID-19 vaccine rollout, state officials are facing criticism for not moving faster to ensure nursing home residents had the earliest possible access to immunizations.
But New Jersey health commissioner Judy Persichilli said the timeline — which shows vaccinations in nursing homes starting Dec. 28 — reflects the state’s desire to include as many vulnerable individuals as possible in the federal pharmacy partnership to immunize those in long-term care and other congregate living facilities. The rollout has also been complicated by unexplained shipping delays and federal program requirements, she suggested.
Persichilli and Gov. Phil Murphy took much of Monday’s media briefing to provide updates on the pharmacy program, which initially appeared to be targeted to serve just long-term care, and federal plans to ship the vaccine. As of Sunday afternoon, 26 hospitals in New Jersey were immunizing at-risk health care workers and 8,740 people had received the first of the two shots of Pfizer’s vaccine, Murphy said.
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