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States are debating whether prisoners should be among the first groups to receive COVID-19 vaccines. Experts say inmates can transmit the disease to prison employees as well as healthcare workers who treat them. A tracking project reports that 250,000 inmates nationwide have tested positive for COVID-19 and 1,700 have died. They add that 62,000 prison employees have tested positive and 108 have died. All data and statistics are based on publicly available data at the time of publication. Some information may be out of date. Visit our coronavirus hub and follow our live updates page for the mo...

Leon Neal/stringer/Getty Images IDFA survey finds 80% of adults believe food industry workers should be prioritized in receiving coronavirus vaccine. More than four in five adults believe food workers—manufacturing, retail and farm workers, among others—should be made a priority when it comes to being among the first to receive the coronavirus vaccine, according to an International Dairy Food Association (IDFA) poll conducted by Morning Consult from December 4-7 among a national sample of 2,200 adults. The same poll found an estimated 71% of adults support compan...

IDFA survey finds 80% of adults believe food industry workers should be prioritized in receiving coronavirus vaccine. More than four in five adults believe food workers—manufacturing, retail and farm workers, among others—should be made a priority when it comes to being among the first to receive the coronavirus vaccine, according to an International Dairy Food Association (IDFA) poll conducted by Morning Consult from December 4-7 among a national sample of 2,200 adults. The same poll found an estimated 71% of adults support companies and employers partnering with public health agen...

December 15, 2020 (Video courtesy of WMAR-TV) Five University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) front-line healthcare workers — two physicians on the faculty of the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), a nurse, a respiratory therapist, and an environmental service worker — received COVID-19 Pfizer vaccines Dec. 14 as UMMS begins the process of vaccinating staff members throughout the organization. UMMS received one tray of 975 vaccine doses and is in the process of allocating doses across the system, with additional vaccine delivery expected later this week. ...

'Need to be patient.' Lexington has its 1st COVID-19 vaccines. When will you get one? Jeremy Chisenhall, Lexington Herald-Leader Dec. 15—While the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were arriving in Lexington Monday to be administered to health care workers, the city was working on getting the vaccine to those next in line. "We have no idea exactly how many doses we will be getting and when," said Susan Straub, spokeswoman for Mayor Linda Gorton's office. Lexington's first vaccine doses were sent directly to Baptist Health Lexington and University of Kentucky Chandler Hospi...