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Former President Jimmy Carter to receive coronavirus vaccine 'when it is available to him' By: CNN By Ben Tinker and Caroline Kelly, CNN (CNN) -- Former President Jimmy Carter's foundation announced Thursday that the 39th President is planning to receive the Covid-19 vaccine. "After consulting with his doctors, President Carter is looking forward to receiving the COVID-19 vaccine when it is available to him," the center said in a short statement Thursday night posted on Twitter. Carter is 96 years old. The news comes after fellow former Presidents...

South Korea reports its highest daily rise in coronavirus cases since the start of pandemic  From CNN’s Jake Kwon in Seoul Containers to be used as a ward to treat people infected with the coronavirus are set up on the grounds of the Seoul Medical Center in Seoul, South Korea, on Thursday, December 10. Ahn Young-joon/AP South Korea reported 950 new coronavirus cases on Saturday -- the most infections in a single day since the beginning of the pandemic, the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) said in a press release. Of those, 928 confirmed cases are local infections, whil...

US FDA to discuss vaccine EUA in press conference on Saturday From CNN Health’s Maggie Fox The US Food and Drug Administration will hold a news conference at 9 a.m. ET Saturday with Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn and Dr. Peter Marks, who heads the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, to discuss the agency’s decision to grant emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. “FDA Commissioner @SteveFDA and @FDACBER Director Dr. Peter Marks will be taking questions,” the agency said on its Twitter account. The news conference will be livestreamed on Twitte...

Messages such as "you should die." and "why don't you go kill yourself?" the sheriff says the night before she jumped, rebecca sent a message to a 12-year-old north carolina boy she had befriended online. she wrote "i'm jumping. i can't take it anymore." >> we can see from what we have investigated so far that rebecca wasn't attacking back. she appeared to be beat down. she appeared to have a defeatist attitude. and quite frankly, the entire investigation is exceptionally disturbing to the entire investigative team. >> rebecca's mother saw her alive for the last time that night. on her phone. ...

One of our cnn producers came over. she has, in fact, heard some of the passengers are being held in this building where we are, international terminal here. we are, of course, going to try to get in touch with anyone we can, passengers who are in the building. like you said, it doesn't seem like they're going anywhere any time soon. we're going to see if we can find out anything more at this time. >> ben, we'll get back to you. if any of those pass swrengers to talk to us on our cell phone, we'd be anxious to hear their eyewitness accounts. stand by. ben tinker, senior medical producer is at ...