🇺🇸 Democrats’ hopes of taking control of the U.S. Senate hung in the balance early Wednesday after the party captured one seat in the Georgia runoff elections bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
🇨🇳 The WHO expressed disappointment with China for the delay in granting visas to a team seeking to investigate Covid-19’s origins bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
🇭🇰 President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. secretary of state denounced Hong Kong’s arrest of dozens of opposition figures under a controversial national security law bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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LOOK: Trump supporters are gathered in Washington, D.C. to rally in support of Trump as Congress prepares to seal Biden’s victory in the November election trib.al/6Tqtf6V
Lisa Hayes, who traveled from Sacramento for the event, stood in front of the Capitol dome in a flowing white skirt adorned with paper ballots that had the word “stolen” stamped on them in big red letters
Richard Cass, a 53-year-old tow truck driver from New Jersey, said he believes the election “was definitely bought.”
“We need to get the American spirit back,” said Cass, who was wearing red-and-white striped overalls
Hong Kong police arrested dozens under the China-imposed #NationalSecurityLaw in the biggest sweep yet.
- Arrests include lawmakers and activists Alvin Yeung, James To, Lam Cheuk-ting, Claudia Mo, Benny Tai
- Arrests by police’s national security branch trib.al/Aa2ssxi
🇭🇰 Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Benny Tai arrives at the Ma On Shan police station after being arrested.
He is among dozens of people taken into custody on suspicion of violating the China-imposed national security law #香港#戴耀廷
🇭🇰 UPDATE: Hong Kong police have arrested American lawyer John Clancey, who served as treasurer for the opposition primary election organizers, according to Jonathan Man, a partner at Ho Tse Wai & Partners #香港
🇺🇸 Joe Biden and Donald Trump held dueling rallies Monday ahead of Georgia’s critical Senate runoff election bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
🇬🇧 Boris Johnson pinned his hopes for a national recovery on a plan to deliver 2 million vaccinations a week, as the U.K. went back into lockdown bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
THREAD: The #Covid19 vaccines 💉💉that have been authorized in Western countries come with some safety concerns and side effects — like all new drugs.
Here's what you need to know about allergic reactions to the shots 👇 trib.al/qaLxXdt
As many as 10 people have had a serious allergic reaction, called anaphylaxis, to the vaccines.
It's the runaway inflammation and swelling of tissues. As much as 5% of people in the U.S. have had such a reaction to various substances trib.al/qaLxXdt
2 people in the U.K., 6 people in the U.S. and a man in Israel who took the Pfizer/BioNTech shot had it. Also, a physician in Boston who took the Moderna vaccine suffered an allergic reaction.
🇬🇧 The U.K. has administered the 1st shots of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, in a race against a faster-spreading coronavirus variant bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
LIVE Q&A THREAD: We asked our followers to send us their biggest #Election2020 questions. Bloomberg QuickTake reporter @MadisonMills22 is taking over the account to answer them all below 👇
Can polls be wrong?
@MadisonMills22: Yes, but they’re likely to be better this time than in 2016. In 2016, national polls weren’t far off, but state polls failed to anticipate a spike in turnout from non-college-educated voters who came out in droves for Trump.
How long will results take? (pt. 1)
@MadisonMills22: Unclear! If either candidate wins an unexpected state with tons of electoral votes, like Biden wins Texas or Florida, they may declare victory.