US sees record 184,000 new daily Covid cases as Trump politicises vaccine effort
Deaths increase as states implement new social restrictions and president threatens not to deliver vaccines to New York
The US set yet another daily record for new coronavirus cases on Friday, topping 184,000, while Donald Trump promised imminent distribution of a vaccine – except to New York, which he threatened to leave out for political reasons – and the president-elect, Joe Biden, pleaded with Americans to follow basic mitigation measures.
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