Alana Wise
Alana Wise is a politics reporter on the Washington desk at NPR.
Before joining NPR, Alana covered beats including American gun culture, the aviation business and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Through her reporting, Alana has covered such events as large protests, mass shootings, boardroom uprisings and international trade fights.
Alana is a graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., and an Atlanta native.
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The cash infusion will go to support the COVAX program, co-run by the World Health Organization, to distribute vaccines to low- and middle-income countries. -
Dr. Anthony Fauci and former President Trump butted heads, leading to a public rift between the pair. Fauci says he now feels free to "let the science speak."
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President Biden laid out his approach to the pandemic before he took office. On Thursday, he began implementing it, calling the effort a "wartime undertaking."
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who will be sworn in as president and vice president today, called on Americans to unite through their mourning of lost loved ones.
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The president elect on Thursday evening outlined his plan for coronavirus relief — one of the core issues he hopes to tackle in his first days of office.
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The president-elect is scheduled to speak at 2:30 p.m. ET, a day after urging Americans to refrain from unnecessary travel this year because of the pandemic.
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The vice president, who chairs the White House coronavirus task force, was the highest profile U.S. official so far to have received the vaccine.
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Richmond, who Biden picked as his director of the Office of Public Engagement, was not in close contact with Biden, his spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield said in a statement.
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The vice president is scheduled to get the vaccine in an event that will be publicly broadcast, as public officials seek to calm public fears surrounding a vaccine.
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President-elect Joe Biden said he plans to publicly take a vaccine in an effort to promote public trust. Vice President Pence and his team are discussing options for how and when he will take it, too.
