15 Dec 2020

USA correspondent Susan Davis

From Nine To Noon, 9:55 am on 15 December 2020

A New York intensive care nurse has been the first person to get the Covid-19 vaccine in the United States, which has the highest death toll of any country in the world, soon expected to top 300-thousand people. And the electoral college is meeting to officially certify the election even as Donald Trump rages against the result.

Susan Davis is a congressional correspondent for NPR and a co-host of the NPR Politics Podcast.

Photo dated December 9, 2020 courtesy of Mount Sinai Health System in New York shows a lab technician during a dry run at Mount Sinai hospital ahead of an expected Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shipment over the weekend. -

Photo: AFP