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Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. As Congress prepares to affirm President-elect Joe Biden's victory, thousands of people have gathered to show their support for President Donald Trump and his claims of election fraud. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

D.C. postpones vaccinations amid Capitol violence

Supporters of President Trump who stormed the Capitol managed to disrupt the democratic process and the response to America's other crisis -- vaccinating people against the coronavirus.

January 6, 2021
Health care worker Pam Peter, right, prepares to receive her second round of the COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at John Knox Village in Pompano Beach, Fla. Ninety residents and 80 staff members received their second shot of the vaccine Wednesday and 50 new staff members received their first round of the vaccine. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

CDC: 29 allergic reactions to COVID-19 vaccines so far

The U.S. government has recorded 29 severe allergic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine but said the risks from the virus far outweigh concerns about the shots as officials prodded states to speed up the immunization effort even if it means busting through federal recommendations on whom to prioritize.

January 6, 2021
Healthcare worker Glen Jenkins, right, receives his first round of a COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at John Knox Village in Pompano Beach, Fla. Ninety residents and 80 staff members received their second shot of the vaccine Wednesday and 50 new staff members received their first round of the vaccine. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Alex Azar: Don’t let priority phases slow down vaccine push

President Trump's vaccine team said Wednesday that states should feel free to move beyond health workers and other priority groups if vials are sitting on the shelf, saying it's unacceptable to allow doses to "sit around while states try to micromanage this process."

January 6, 2021
FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2020 file photo Ventilator tubes are attached a COVID-19 patient at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in the Mission Hills section of Los Angeles. California hospitals ended the year on "the brink of catastrophe," a health official said as the pandemic pushed deaths and sickness to staggering levels and some medical centers scrambled to provide oxygen for the critically ill. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File)

COVID-19 raises number of overdoses, deaths by other means

The U.S. is on pace to record 400,000 more deaths for 2020 than it did in 2019, driven by COVID-19 and problems that go beyond the coronavirus but were rekindled by the pandemic, including disrupted care for other diseases and mounting drug overdoses.

January 5, 2021
In this April 29, 2020, file photo, workers move bodies to a refrigerated truck from the Andrew T. Cleckley Funeral Home in the Brooklyn borough of New York. During the deadliest days of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, the bodies piled up at the funeral home — and the stench that came with it — at an alarming rate. Cleckley says what happened next made him the scapegoat for an unforeseen crisis — hundreds of COVID-19 deaths a day in New York that overwhelmed funeral homes across the city. Authorities swept in and suspended his license in an episode that made headlines in a city already reeling from other horrors of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) ** FILE **

U.S. sees 400,000 more deaths in 2020 as COVID-19 wreaks havoc

The U.S. is on pace to record 400,000 more deaths for 2020 than it did in 2019, driven by the coronavirus and problems that go beyond the virus but were rekindled by the pandemic, from disrupted care for other diseases to mounting drug overdoses.

January 5, 2021
Trevor Cowlett, 88, receives the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Sam Foster, at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, England, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, on the first day of rolling out the newly approved jab. (Steve Parsons/Pool Photo via AP)

U.K. begins using AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine; countries mull ways to maximize supply

The fast-spreading coronavirus is forcing leaders to scramble for novel solutions to build widespread immunity this year, from delaying the second shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine that debuted in the United Kingdom on Monday to a U.S. proposal -- on hold for now -- to cut in half the dosage of the Moderna vaccine, even as states struggle to stick the doses they have into arms.

January 4, 2021
The House’s Blue Dog Democrats want President-elect Joseph R. Biden to prioritize virus relief and investments in areas like climate change. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden: Vaccine effort is ‘falling behind,’ pledges action

President-elect Joseph R. Biden said Tuesday that President Trump's efforts to vaccinate Americans are "falling behind, far behind," and he will invoke wartime production powers after his inauguration to speed up the campaign.

December 29, 2020
Residents line up for coronavirus tests at tents set up on the streets of Beijing on Sunday, Dec. 27, 2020. Beijing has urged residents not to leave the city during the Lunar New Year holiday in February, implementing new restrictions and mass testings after several coronavirus infections last week. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China renews crackdowns as coronavirus circles back

The place where the coronavirus crisis began -- China -- is back in the spotlight, with a cluster of locally transmitted cases in the northeast and the Lunar New Year prompting the communist government to crack down on travel.

December 28, 2020
In this photo released by Nucleus Network/ABC, Dr. Jason Lickliter, left, chief medical officer of Nucleus Network, talks with a clinical trial participant given a coronavirus vaccine, in Melbourne, Australia, Tuesday, May 26, 2020, with hopes of releasing a proven vaccine this year. Novavax injected 131 volunteers in the first phase of the trial testing the safety of the vaccine and looking for signs of its effectiveness. (Patrick Rocca/Nucleus Network/ABC via AP) ** FILE **

Novavax launches late-stage vaccine trial

A fifth company on Monday started a late-stage trial of its coronavirus vaccine, as Maryland company Novavax reached phase 3 and potentially added to immunization options next year.

December 28, 2020
President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington before boarding Marine One. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Trump blasted for coronavirus relief bill ‘switcheroo’

Governors and lawmakers in both parties bemoaned President Trump's "switcheroo" on coronavirus relief and government funding and implored him Sunday to sign the massive bill to avert a federal shutdown and keep economic misery from billowing across the nation.

December 27, 2020
President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally in Toledo, Ohio, on Jan. 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Trump to stage rally for David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler

President Trump late Sunday said he will rally in Georgia on Monday on behalf of two Republican senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, ahead of races that could determine control of the Senate in the new year.

December 27, 2020
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, President Donald Trump's then-nominee to head the powerful Food and Drug Administration (FDA), speaks during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Former FDA chief Gottlieb: UK variant ‘could be here’

Former Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said Sunday the dreaded "U.K. variant" of the coronavirus is probably circulating in the U.S. but has not been found because Americans aren't tracking mutations as closely as other nations.

December 27, 2020
Long-term care facility resident Frances Watland receives the first COVID-19 vaccination for Oklahoma nursing home residents and staff at The Lodge at Brookline in Oklahoma City, Okla. on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. (Chris Landsberger/The Oklahoman via AP)

Nursing homes focus of coronavirus vaccination program

U.S. officials hope a nursing home vaccination program that began in earnest this week will pump the brakes on a climbing COVID-19 death toll that has afflicted society at large but continues to fall hardest on the frail and elderly, especially those in long-term care.

December 23, 2020