Ozy Presidential Daily Brief

As Britain enters its second day of COVID-19 vaccinations, those not among the first recipients await approvals, manufacturing and difficult distribution. And without explanation, the Supreme Court last night denied a congressman’s petition to invalidate 2.5 million of Pennsylvania’s mail-in ballots. Click here to subscribe now to When Katty Met Carlos, OZY’s newest podcast: https://www.ozy.com/pg/podcast/when-katty-met-carlos

Britain has become the first nation to begin inoculating its population with a fully tested and approved COVID-19 vaccine. And test pilot Chuck Yeager, the first human to break the sound barrier, is dead at 97. Click here to subscribe now to When Katty Met Carlos, OZY’s newest podcast: https://www.ozy.com/pg/podcast/when-katty-met-carlos

Joining 101,486 other Americans, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and leader of his faltering campaign to discredit the Nov. 3 election was hospitalized Sunday in Washington, D.C. And the “inventor of the chicken sandwich” is standing up to Big Chicken. Click here to subscribe now to When Katty Met Carlos, OZY’s newest podcast: https://www.ozy.com/pg/podcast/when-katty-met-carlos

As the pandemic’s death toll passes 1.5 million amid new worldwide surges, vaccines offer tantalizing hope that’s frustratingly out of reach. And voters President Trump says came from “sh*thole countries” are turning Georgia blue. Click here to subscribe now to When Katty Met Carlos, OZY’s newest podcast: https://www.ozy.com/pg/podcast/when-katty-met-carlos

President-elect Biden is planning a temporary national mask mandate once he takes office. And one proposal to up vaccination numbers: Attach a cash bonus. Click here to subscribe now to When Katty Met Carlos, OZY’s newest podcast: https://www.ozy.com/pg/podcast/when-katty-met-carlos

More Americans died of COVID-19 Wednesday than in the first wave’s peak on April 15. And Taylor Swift has dropped her first retracked song teaser in an ad featuring Satan. Click here to subscribe now to When Katty Met Carlos, OZY’s newest podcast: https://www.ozy.com/pg/podcast/when-katty-met-carlos

Britain has approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and could start widespread inoculation within days. And President Trump could preemptively pardon his own children. Click here to subscribe now to When Katty Met Carlos, OZY’s newest podcast: https://www.ozy.com/pg/podcast/when-katty-met-carlos

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Thanksgiving travel is likely to cause U.S. COVID-19 cases to surge even more. And the assassination of an Iranian scientist has far-reaching implications. Click here to subscribe now to When Katty Met Carlos, OZY’s newest podcast: https://www.ozy.com/pg/podcast/when-katty-met-carlos

The scientist in charge of Iran’s nuclear program is dead, the victim of an assassination Iran blames on Israel. And Denmark is putting mink killed because of a mutant coronavirus strain to the torch because they rose up from their graves. Click here to subscribe now to When Katty Met Carlos, OZY’s newest podcast: https://www.ozy.com/pg/podcast/when-katty-met-carlos