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Michael Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. And according to HuffPost, he has a grim prognostication for the next six to 12 weeks, saying they're going to be 'the darkest of the entire pandemic.' HuffPost says Osterholm points to the daily tally of 70,000 new COVID-19 cases in the US on Friday, which is the highest level since July. He said that between now and the holidays, the number of COVID-19 cases in the US will likely 'blow right through that.' Speaking on NBC's 'Meet the Press' on Sunday, Osterholm said he was troubled by the US's lack of a leading voice to guide the public. Vaccines will not become available in any meaningful way until early to the third quarter of next year. And even then, about half of the U.S. population at this point is skeptical of even taking the vaccine. Michel Osterholm Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces that China will provide "two million surgical masks and 50,000 testing kits" to help the European Union cope with the coronavirus pandemic. SOUNDBITE
New Zealand's former Covid-19 response minister Chris Hipkins emerges as the sole nominee to replace Jacinda Ardern as the country's new prime minister. Speaking to reporters outside parliament in the capital Wellington, Hipkins said he will strive to "reach a consensus about who was best to lead Labour and therefore New Zealand forward." SOUNDBITE
Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne holds a meeting on Covid-19 via videoconference with the prefects and directors of regional health agencies, as Europe currently experiences a seventh wave of the epidemic. IMAGES
A long line of people snakes across a park in Washington, DC, at a makeshift Covid-19 test site near the White House, as people prepare for holiday festivities, just a few days away. IMAGES
People gather in Vienna's main square to protest against recent Covid-19 measures enforced by the government including mandatory vaccines by February and restrictions. IMAGES of people protesting in Vienna
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