WASHINGTON — A top coronavirus adviser to President-elect Joe Biden delivered a stern holiday message to Americans on Thursday — “no Christmas parties” — and warned they face a COVID-19 siege for weeks to come despite the latest moves toward U.S. government approval of a vaccine.
“The next three to six weeks at minimum… are our COVID weeks,” Dr. Michael Osterholm, a member of Biden’s coronavirus advisory board, told CNN. “It won’t end after that, but that is the period right now where we could have a surge upon a surge upon a surge.”
Osterholm stressed that it would be several months before the nation sees widespread availability of vaccines, the first of which cleared …
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