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Senator David Perdue quarantines as a critical runoff in Georgia nears. The U.S. reaches 20 million cases. And China approved its first Covid-19 vaccine.
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The Moderna vaccine can be distributed more widely because it can be stored at normal freezer temperatures.Credit.Cooper Neill for The New York Times
A pharmacist at a Wisconsin hospital has been arrested and accused of intentionally removing more than 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine from refrigeration last week, knowing that the vaccines would be rendered useless and that the people receiving them would think they were protected against the virus when they were not, the police department in Grafton, Wisconsin, said Thursday.
States Are Shutting Down Prisons as Guards are Crippled By Covid-19
States and counties are finding it hard to keep jails and prisons open as the virus ravages both prisoners and staff members. But transferring inmates can spur new outbreaks.
A major virus outbreak at San Quentin State Prison took hold after a large group of inmates was transferred in from another prison.Credit.Max Whittaker for The New York Times
By Brendon Derr, Rebecca Griesbach and Danya Issawi
Jan. 1, 2021
Battered by a wave of coronavirus infections and deaths, local jails and state prison systems around the United States have resorted to a drastic strategy to keep the virus at bay: Shutting down completely and transferring their inmates elsewhere.
As in past years, The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board began discussing candidates for its 2020 San Diegan of the Year well before the year ended. We debated potential choices over multiple Zoom meetings, and we asked members of a weary public for suggestions in recent weeks.
Each time, we kept discussing the same person. As in past years, the choice was clear.
In 2017, we
honored the 20 people who died in the local hepatitis A crisis, whom county officials declined to identify. In 2018, we
celebrated U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw for his role in getting the federal government to treat immigrants more fairly and humanely. In 2019, we