95-Year-Old Former Nurse Reflects On Life In The Pandemic, Vaccine Rollout We check in with Virginia Chandler, a 95-year-old assisted living resident in Albany, Oregon, to see how she's coped with life during the pandemic and her anticipation of the coronavirus vaccine.
Black Doctors Use Social Media To Share Accurate Information About COVID-19 Vaccine A third of Black Americans are hesitant to get a COVID-19 vaccine, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Some Black doctors are finding creative ways to encourage vaccine acceptance. Pien Huang
U.S. Surpasses 20 Million Confirmed Coronavirus Cases In less than two months, the country doubled its total number of infections, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. Reese Oxner
News Brief: COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout, 2021 Economy, Brexit The United States' COVID-19 vaccine rollout process has gotten off to a slow start. We look back and ahead at the economy. And, The UK officially departs from the EU.
South Korea Faces Third Wave Of Coronavirus South Korea has weathered the pandemic well until now, when cases have spiked to new highs. And despite its vaunted early response, vaccination won't begin until February. Anthony Kuhn
Choices, Chance And Living While You Can: Bookends To The Year Of COVID-19 One of my patients in this devastating year stands out — a veteran who'd survived PTSD, cancer and family estrangement. Assisted living raised his COVID-19 risk, but also brought him community. John Henning Schumann
Pharmacist Arrested, Accused Of Destroying More Than 500 Moderna Vaccine Doses The now-fired hospital employee later said he knew "that people who received the vaccinations would think they had been vaccinated against the virus when in fact they were not," investigators said. Vanessa Romo
Amid Health Care Worker Shortage, LA Mayor Presses For Faster Vaccine Rollout As the city's hospitals reach a breaking point, Mayor Eric Garcetti says Los Angeles needs more vaccine doses as soon as possible: "We can go as fast as you give us those vaccines." Emma Bowman
As Israel Leads In COVID-19 Vaccines Per Capita, Palestinians Still Await Shots Israel aims to vaccinate 25% of its citizens by end of January. But the country has not provided any to the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, which are scrambling for shots. Daniel Estrin
From 'Mysterious' Illness To Global Pandemic: COVID-19, By The Numbers A year ago today, the WHO first learned of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China of "unknown" origin. Here's the impact of that fateful day, by the numbers. Nurith Aizenman