U.S. Allows Emergency COVID-19 Vaccine in Bid to End Pandemic

The U.S. military began inoculating American troops based overseas this week, focusing on military and civilian health care workers, first responders and command teams. Troops based in Japan, South Korea and Europe were among the first to receive the vaccine amid rising cases of the coronavirus around the world.

The arrival of two coronavirus vaccines authorized by the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use this month has prompted fierce debate about who ought to be immunized first. The latest guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices put health care workers and older Americans living in nursing homes at the head of the line.

Highlighting the devastating impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on Black communities, the CEO of Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital in Los Angeles revealed on Tuesday that the small medical center is overloaded with patients, with 70 people being treated in a 29-bed emergency department.

President-elect Joe Biden on Monday received his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe. The president-elect took a dose of Pfizer vaccine at a hospital not far from his Delaware home, hours after his wife, Jill Biden, did the same.

President-elect Joe Biden will receive his first dose of the coronavirus vaccine on live television as part of a growing effort to convince the American public the inoculations are safe. Monday’s event will come the same day that a second vaccine, produced by Moderna, will start arriving in states, joining Pfizer’s in the nation’s arsenal against the COVID-19 pandemic, which has now killed more than 317,000 people in the United States and upended life around the globe.

Rep.-elect Nancy Mace, R-S.C., said Monday that "Congress shouldn't be putting themselves first in line for the COVID-19 vaccination" as many of her soon-to-be colleagues are being vaccinated following the examples of both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

The opener of Saturday Night Live spoofed the televised moment when Vice President Mike Pence (Beck Bennett) received a Covid-19 vaccine.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorWhile Congress continues to let Americans starve and go bankrupt while playing politics with a stimulus bill, we’ll drink to this: Jägermeister and the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) have announced a long-term partnership, with the goal of helping to preserve independent live music venues across the United States through the Save Our Stages initiative, which is part of the long-delayed stimulus bill mentioned above.Kicking off with a $1 million

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will be getting their first doses of the coronavirus vaccine very soon.

Now that a COVID-19 vaccine is available, it’s only a matter of time until our timelines are filled of photos of people vaccinating themselves—stars included. The celebrities who have received the COVID-19 vaccine so far include Sir Ian McKellen and more stars to come.

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President-elect Joe Biden will reportedly receive the Coronavirus vaccine as soon as next week.

A day after pledging to taking the coronavirus vaccine in public, Joe Biden today sought to assure the public that the injections are truly good for them and help is coming from the federal government.

Prue Leith, one of the judges from The Great British Bakeoff, is one of the first group of people to be vaccinated against COVID-19!

NYT food correspondent Kim Severson tweeted regarding one of the first Americans to receive the shot.Sandra Lindsay, an at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, was the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in New York on December 14. "I'm feeling well.