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Close Aspen Valley Hospital clinical pharmacist Kelly Atkinson organizes the empty vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in the command unit trailer set up next to the vaccination tent in the Benedict Music Tent parking lot in Aspen, Colo., Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. To keep track of the empty vials, the pharmacists labeled them with individual numbers. Before the vaccine is diluted, the unused vial of vaccine looks identical to the vials after the doses have been taken out. (Kelsey Brunner/The Aspen Times via AP) The Aspen Times via The Associated Press CAROL MCKINLEY S...

COVID Update New Jersey: Residents, staff at long-term care facilities begin getting 2nd dose of vaccine Replay Video UP NEXT Residents and workers at the first long-term care facility in New Jersey to get the COVID-19 vaccination began receiving their second doses Monday. Governor Phil Murphy and Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli were on hand at the Roosevelt Care Center in Old Bridge for the event, as the state continues to mourn more than 7,200 long-term care residents who have died from the novel coronavirus. Three weeks ago, 103-year-old Newark native Mildred Clements became the firs...

Anthony Johnson reports on New Jersey's State of the State address. Mildred, who has now live through two pandemics, received her shot to a round of applause. She was followed by nurse Esther Moodey, the state's first nursing home staff member to receive the vaccine. "It is an understatement to say that this has been an incredibly challenging year for all of us in healthcare, on many levels," Moodey said after receiving the first dose. "I am thankful for the COVID-19 vaccine and honored to be the first staff member at our facility receive it, in solidarity with my colleagues in other long ter...

Officials with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) say the internal database they use to track COVID-19 cases has been experiencing problems that has caused incomplete case reporting for several days.

For several weeks now, my intrepid and hard-working reporter colleague Chad Livengood and I have been trying to explain why the state of Michigan's vaccination percent administration numbers are so low — now the 20th lowest in the nation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and…