News from the note…
A roundup of the day’s news that might be of interest to you.
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Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was granted priority review for full approval by the FDA for Americans 16 and older.
— Axios (@axios) July 16, 2021
The priority review shortens the approval process from 10 months to six months, with the goal date for a decision expected in January 2022.https://t.co/M6mc2UjBYo
White House Press Sec. Jen Psaki says “false narratives” circulating on social media like COVID vaccines causing infertility, is the kind of misinformation the administration is flagging for Facebook to censor: "It's been disproven time and time again." pic.twitter.com/Rl4o47bIKV
— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 16, 2021
In recent days FEMA has dispatched dozens of employees to Nevada. The admin also sent 1-2 person teams to a handful of other states in Illinois, Missouri, Colorado and Arkansas to help with genomic sequencing and outbreak investigations. https://t.co/VeqzmYKrYC
— POLITICO (@politico) July 16, 2021
In the US, 20% of Covid-19 cases this week were in Florida, the White House coronavirus coordinator says. https://t.co/TWVgM9i3Ve
— CNN (@CNN) July 16, 2021
"This is the absolute worst that I've ever seen it," a Missouri nurse tells @ABC News. https://t.co/xW2gFP5UEq
— ABC News (@ABC) July 16, 2021
More than 30 residents were evacuated after the roof of a Miami-Dade apartment building partially collapsed Thursday, 3 weeks after the deadly partial collapse of Champlain Towers South prompted concerns about building stability in the region. https://t.co/oTAEqY0i6i
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 16, 2021
U.S. Border Patrol has made more than 1 million arrests of migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border since last October, after June set a 20-year record for that month.
— Axios (@axios) July 16, 2021
The last time Border Patrol made more than 1 million arrests was in 2006.https://t.co/I2j3D4BdWQ
The FBI must upgrade its system for conducting background checks on gun buyers to avoid repeating illegal sales like the one that led hundreds of Colorado schools to close or lock down in 2019, the Justice Dept.'s inspector general says in a new report. https://t.co/v68eNw4tVi
— NBC News (@NBCNews) July 16, 2021
Catastrophic flooding — the worst in decades — in Germany and parts of Belgium has killed at least 120 people.
— NPR (@NPR) July 16, 2021
Officials say climate change is at least partly to blame. https://t.co/uL0ui6rhsk pic.twitter.com/JgG6hhe5jg
Firefighters are scrambling to control a raging inferno in southeastern Oregon that’s spreading miles a day in windy conditions. Authorities ordered a new round of evacuations Thursday amid worries that the fire could merge with another blaze.https://t.co/D0QlXECexq
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 16, 2021
Drone video shows a pyre of flames and smoke rising high above the site of an asphalt plant explosion in Ardmore, Oklahoma. One person was killed in the blast with no other injuries, per the Associated Press. https://t.co/Ilpk0cOC3z pic.twitter.com/dQDWBgqbWm
— ABC News (@ABC) July 16, 2021
