Pelosi says the House will move to impeach Trump if he doesn’t resign ‘immediately.’ – The New York Times (Move on Monday!)

“I was actually on the phone with Leader Hoyer who was pleading with us to send the Guard,” Hogan said Thursday.

But the governor said he was initially stymied: Maj. Gen. Timothy Gowen, the adjutant general of the Maryland National Guard, was repeatedly rebuffed by the Defense Department.

Hoyer “was yelling across the room to [Senate Minority Leader Charles E.] Schumer and they were back and forth saying, we do have the authorization and I’m saying, ‘I’m telling you we do not have the authorization,’ ” Hogan recalled. It wasn’t until about 90 minutes later that the secretary of the Army called asking the Maryland guardsmen to “come as soon as possible,” the governor said.

Source: How the U.S. Capitol Police were overrun in a ‘monumental’ security failure – The Washington Post

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Indian Farmers, Government Still at Stalemate | Food Manufacturing

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Representatives of the Indian government and tens of thousands of protesting farmers failed to make progress Friday in their eighth round of talks over the farmers’ demand that new agricultural reform laws be scrapped.

Agriculture Minister Narendra Tomar offered to amend any flaws in the three laws but refused to repeal them, prompting the farmers to continue their 44-day-old blockade of highways linking the capital with the country’s north.

The two sides agreed to meet again on Jan. 15, said Hannan Mollah, a leader of the farmers. “We can’t accept anything other than the repeal of the three new laws,” he said.

Television images showed the farmers at the negotiating table with placards reading, “We will win or die.”

Source: Indian Farmers, Government Still at Stalemate | Food Manufacturing

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SARS-CoV-2 Transmission From People Without COVID-19 Symptoms | Infectious Diseases | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network

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The findings presented here complement an earlier assessment²¹ and reinforce the importance of asymptomatic transmission: across a range of plausible scenarios, at least 50% of transmission was estimated to have occurred from persons without symptoms. This overall proportion of transmission from presymptomatic and never symptomatic individuals is key to identifying mitigation measures that may be able to control SARS-CoV-2. For example, if the reproduction number (R) in a given setting is 2.0, then at least a 50% reduction in transmission is needed to drive the reproductive number below 1.0. Given that in some settings R is likely much greater than 2 and more than half of transmissions may come from individuals who are asymptomatic at the time of transmission, effective control must mitigate transmission risk from people without symptoms. Source: SARS-CoV-2 Transmission From People Without COVID-19 Symptoms | Infectious Diseases | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network

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Metro Detroit counties running out of COVID-19 vaccine, officials say (Trump Administration failing to keep vaccinations moving)

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“We’re asking for 50,000. We know we can get 50,000 a week out. But unfortunately, what we’ve been getting from the state with our allotment is 1,000 a week. The new group that’s added to the first priority group is going to equate to over 200,000 people — are now going to be asking for this vaccine — and we only have 1,000 per week to give out,” said Macomb County Executive Mark Hackel. Source: Metro Detroit counties running out of COVID-19 vaccine, officials say