Trump's Covid vaccine czar said Pfizer's and Moderna's vaccines are safe, with only 10% to 15% of volunteers reporting "significantly noticeable" side effects.
"If you look across the United States, we are really in a public health crisis right now," Dr. Anthony Fauci told Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday.
Shares of Nikola dropped 14.9% in heavy trading Tuesday after an insider lockup period expired on up to 166 million shares of the electric truck start-up.
President Donald Trump has refused to concede to President-elect Joe Biden, claiming without evidence he won the election and was the victim of ballot fraud.
If enough people get immunized, the U.S. pandemic could be under control in the second half of 2021, the Trump administration's Covid vaccine chief said.
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