‘Today we did it’: Joe Biden touts 200m vaccine shots administered – as it happened

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That's it for me tonight. Here's some of what happened through Wednesday afternoon:

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In a speech at the Institute of International Finance today, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said private financing would provide the bulk of the enormous" investment needed to shift the US to a green economy, CBS News reports.

Referencing an estimate that $2.5 trillion will be needed over the next 10 years, Yellen said private capital will need to fill most of that gap".