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This March 6, 2020 file photo shows the headquarters for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Dr. Rochelle Walensky, an infectious-diseases specialist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, is expected to become CDC director after Biden is inaugurated. (AP Photo/ Ron Harris, File) **FILE**

New CDC chief orders review of COVID-19 guidelines

Rochelle Walensky, the incoming director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said "better, healthier days are ahead" but testing and vaccinating for COVID-19 must accelerate rapidly to get there.

January 20, 2021
With the Washington Monument in the background, President-elect Joe Biden stands with his wife Jill Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris stands with her husband Doug Emhoff as they look at lights placed around the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during a COVID-19 memorial Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

U.S. COVID-19 death toll surpasses 400,000

President-elect Joseph R. Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris recognized the nearly 400,000 Americans who've died from the coronavirus in a memorial from Washington on Tuesday, saying the nation cannot heal from its ordeal unless it remembers the grandparents, siblings and friends it lost to the dreaded disease.

January 19, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event at The Queen theater, Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Biden on vaccine: Emphasize over age 65, front-line workers

President-elect Joseph R. Biden released a vaccination plan Friday that says people 65 and older and front-line workers such as grocery-store employees should be given priority for protection against the coronavirus.

January 15, 2021
In this Jan. 8, 2021, file photo, President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Joe Biden unveils $1.9 trillion economic rescue package

President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Thursday he will demand nearly $2 trillion from Congress to deliver on his plan for reviving the sputtering economy by defeating the deadly coronavirus first, an early test of what the incoming leader will be able to get through Congress after his party officially takes control of the House, Senate and White House.

January 14, 2021
Syringes of a vaccine for COVID-19 and models depicting the coronavirus are displayed at the Sinovac factory in Beijing on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. With rich countries snapping up supplies of COVID-19 vaccines, some parts of the world may have to rely on Chinese-developed shots to conquer the outbreak. The question: Will they work? (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan) ** FILE **

Brazil results cast doubt on China’s COVID-19 vaccine

Brazilian researchers say the Sinovac vaccine from China is only 50% effective against the coronavirus, potentially undercutting Indonesia and other countries that are using it to launch massive inoculation campaigns.

January 13, 2021
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (center) visits with Barbara Alexander of Bedford as she receives her COVID-19 shot from Arlington firefighter Andrew Harris at a mass vaccination site inside the Esports Stadium Arlington & Expo Center in Arlington, Texas, Monday, January 11, 2021. Alongside local and state officials, Abbott provided an update on COVID-19 vaccine efforts in Texas. (Tom Fox/The Dallas Morning News via AP, Pool)

Trump team to recommend COVID-19 vaccine for those 65 and older

The Trump administration on Tuesday said states should offer the coronavirus vaccine to all people over 65 and adults with medical conditions that put them at risk of severe disease or death, a bid to accelerate the sluggish rollout.

January 12, 2021
Sullivan County residents wait in line and staging areas at the Bristol Dragway on Thursday morning in Bristol, Tennessee, hoping to receive a COVID-19 vaccine given by the county health department. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

States scurry to vaccinate as COVID-19 cases climb

The coronavirus is on the rampage in the waning days of the Trump era, killing more than 3,000 people per day and sending states into a scramble to vaccinate people at stadiums, fire departments and elsewhere.

January 7, 2021