More Americans 'may die' due to COVID if Trump does not cooperate with transition process: Biden

President-elect Joe Biden has warned that many more Americans "may die" if incumbent President Donald Trump does t cooperate with transition process and hamper incoming ministration's ability to tackle dely coronavirus pandemic.According to media projections, Democrat Biden has won vember 3 presidential election. Biden has 306 votes in electoral college, surpassing 270 threshold needed to win.

However, Trump, a Republican, has t conceded and inste alleged election fraud without presenting any significant evidence. Trump campaign has also mounted legal fights in a number of battleground states where he lost.

"More people may die if we don't coordinate," Biden said in his home state of Delaware on Monday, responding to a question on President Trump refusing to concede election and outgoing ministration t co-operating in transition process.

US government ncy that launches transition process - General Services ministration (GSA), heed by a Trump appointee - has yet to recognise Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris as winners. Trump-appointed ministrator of General Services ministration has so far refused to take legally necessary step to begin transition process, which would give Biden's team a budget, intelligence briefings and access to federal ncies.

“A vaccine is important. It's of little use until you're vaccinated. So, how do we get vaccine, how do we get over 300 million Americans vaccinated? What's game plan? It's a huge, huge, huge undertaking to get it done, prioritise those greatest in need and working our way through, and also cooperate with World Health Organization and rest of world in dealing with this,” he said.

So y (Trump ministration) say y have this 'Warp Speed' programme that t only dealt with getting vaccines, but also how to distribute this. number of COVID-19 infections in US has reached new heights in recent days, surpassing 160,000 cases in one day for first time since outbreak began. More than 247,000 people have died in US do disease.

Dr Anthony Fauci, top US infectious diseases expert, has warned that country faces "a very challenging and omius situation" as it approaches winter.

Calling nationwide vaccine distribution a "huge undertaking", Biden said that if his team h to wait until 20 January - his presidential inauguration - until y could begin work on distribution programme, y would be behind by "over a month, month and a half".

Biden said coordination is important "w, or as rapidly as we can get that done,and said that it would make it a lot easier if President were to participate.

"I am hopeful that President will be mildly more enlightened before we get to January 20," he said.

idea President is still playing golf and t doing anything about it is beyond my comprehension,Biden said.

Biden also criticised Trump for failing to work with Congress to negotiate a measure to aid businesses and unemployed Americans as pandemic rs heing into winter.

Biden was also asked about his thoughts on Trump's tweet over weekend where he first seemed to ackwledge that Biden h won election. However, soon after Trump said he would t concede, and that he h won.

He called Trump's refusal to ackwledge he lost election, despite calls to do so from both sides, "totally irresponsible".

“I interpret that as Trumping-ism, change in his modus operandi. And I think pressure will continue to build,” he said.

President-elect said that he is having a lot of meetings with world leers on telephone and he can get into negotiating with m about things that are going to be done. y are calling with some degree of enthusiasm everyone from a holy far to prime ministers across globe.

“So we are moving along kwing what outcome will be and … but I find this more embarrassing for country than debilitating for my ability to get started,” Biden said. 

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