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Biden's coronavirus task force co-chair Vivek Murthy said the nation needs a "national alert system" to "help states and localities determine when to dial up and down their restrictions," as well as "adequate resources for them to put these restrictions in place.''
Because of the rapid viral spread across the U.S., in-person voting and poll workers who tested positive for COVID-19 since Election Day can not be definitively linked, AP reports.
The Trump administration's refusal to ascertain the election results bars the Biden transition team from getting crucial information about vaccine distribution plans from government officials. While calling on the White House to stop stalling, Biden officials will meet with Pfizer and other vaccine makers.
As COVID rates soar, many states impose new restrictions, while some others resist them.
The public health agency -- which has often been at odds with the White House over coronavirus messaging -- has recently begun to issue more assertive bulletins, though skipping news conferences to explain them. Other CDC news relates to cruises and Thanksgiving.
Health officials and President-elect Joe Biden criticize President Donald Trump's stonewalling of any transition steps while also leaving state governors on their own to deal with the COVID spike. The stakes are high: an estimated 13 million Americans could contract coronavirus before Inauguration Day at the current pace.
Schools, restaurants, recreational activities and group gatherings will all be impacted as the two states take more aggressive steps to try to curtail the latest virus surge.
The uncontrolled outbreak is also pushing hospitalizations to record levels of more than 69,000 Sunday.
Moderna's Phase 3 study involved 30,000 volunteers. The news comes a week after Pfizer and BioNTech said their vaccine was more than 90% effective; both of the vaccines use the same technology based on a molecule known as mRNA.
After that, about 25 million to 30 million people each month could be vaccinated, Moncef Slaoui said. And a scientist who helped develop Pfizer's vaccine predicts that life could return to "normal" by next winter as long as there was a high COVID vaccination rate before next fall.
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Public health officials worry that the pandemic will lead to even higher rates, which hit a 23-year high. News is also from Bahrain and Spain.
In New Jersey, exasperated Gov. Phil Murphy pleaded with coronavirus-fatigued residents on Thursday to keep following health guidelines: "You know what's really uncomfortable and annoying? When you die. That's my answer."
Shortage of PPE and staff are impacting many care facilities, as well as staff who unknowingly transport the virus in parts of the country where spread is accelerating.
The analysis by researchers at the University of Texas also shows that of the inmates in prison who died, nine of them had been approved for parole and were awaiting release, 21 of them had served 90% or more of their sentence and 58% of those who died in prisons were eligible for parole.
In other sports and recreational news: Hawaiian Airlines will let you swap miles for COVID test kits; 80% of Japanese people think the Tokyo Olympics shouldn't be held at all; and more.
The CDC analyzed data from 47 states and noted that visits for girls were higher. Other public health news is on online shopping, testing, prostate cancer, Thanksgiving gatherings and more.
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