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On Dec. 14, 2020, five front-line healthcare workers from the University of Louisville Health received the commonwealth's first vaccines.

Vaccines may not work as well against the coronavirus variant detected in South Africa, so Moderna and Pfizer are upgrading their shots awoodward@insider.com (Aylin Woodward) © Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images A volunteer receives an injection for a potential COVID-19 vaccine at the Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa on June 28, 2020. Felix Dlangamandla/Beeld/Gallo Images via Getty Images COVID-19 vaccines may be less effective against a more i...

States that roll out vaccines the fastest will be prioritized for future doses, officials say: We need doses going to where theyll be administered quickly insider@insider.com (Aria Bendix) © Reuters Alex Azar speaks during a news briefing on the administrations response. Reuters Starting in two weeks, states with the speediest vaccine rollouts will be prioritized for additional doses, US officials announced Tuesday. The new system is meant to incentivize states to promptly re...

Trump explicitly rejected leading the US vaccine drive and is letting Mike Pence and congressional leaders do it instead insider@insider.com (Bill Bostock) © Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images President Donald Trump at an Operation Warp Speed event on December 8 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images President Donald Trump made a conscious choice not to lead efforts to encourage Americans to get vaccinated, the Associated Press reported. The presidents aides are said to ha...

US officials report 3,500 new Covid-19 deaths, a record for the coronavirus pandemic CNN 12/17/2020 By Christina Maxouris, Eric Levenson and Maggie Fox, CNN © Noam Galai/Getty Images NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 12: People visit the holiday market at Bank of America Winter Village in Bryant Park as the city continues the re-opening efforts following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on December 12, 2020 in New York City. The pandemic has caused long-te...

US officials report 3,500 new Covid-19 deaths, a record for the coronavirus pandemic CNN 12/17/2020 By Christina Maxouris, Eric Levenson and Maggie Fox, CNN © Noam Galai/Getty Images NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 12: People visit the holiday market at Bank of America Winter Village in Bryant Park as the city continues the re-opening efforts following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on December 12, 2020 in New York City. The pandemic has caused long-te...

US officials report 3,500 new Covid-19 deaths, a record for the coronavirus pandemic CNN 12/17/2020 By Christina Maxouris, Eric Levenson and Maggie Fox, CNN © Noam Galai/Getty Images NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 12: People visit the holiday market at Bank of America Winter Village in Bryant Park as the city continues the re-opening efforts following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on December 12, 2020 in New York City. The pandemic has caused long-te...

US officials report 3,500 new Covid-19 deaths, a record for the coronavirus pandemic CNN 12/17/2020 By Christina Maxouris, Eric Levenson and Maggie Fox, CNN © Noam Galai/Getty Images NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 12: People visit the holiday market at Bank of America Winter Village in Bryant Park as the city continues the re-opening efforts following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on December 12, 2020 in New York City. The pandemic has caused long-te...

US officials report 3,500 new Covid-19 deaths, a record for the coronavirus pandemic CNN 12/17/2020 By Christina Maxouris, Eric Levenson and Maggie Fox, CNN © Noam Galai/Getty Images NEW YORK, NEW YORK - DECEMBER 12: People visit the holiday market at Bank of America Winter Village in Bryant Park as the city continues the re-opening efforts following restrictions imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus on December 12, 2020 in New York City. The pandemic has caused long-te...

US coronavirus: The first vaccines reach all states as the US death toll tops 300,000 CNN 12/15/2020 By Susannah Cullinane, Holly Yan and Ralph Ellis, CNN © Mark Lennihan/Pool/AP Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in the Queens borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool) The first doses of an FDA-authorized Covid-19 vaccine have be...