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The WHO official's comments come as U.S. airports recorded their busiest day of the pandemic over the weekend.

"The Governor's statewide executive order allows food establishments to be open for in-person dining on New Years Eve," Greg Abbott tweeted.

America's top infectious diseases expert tells Newsweek: "We can end this outbreak…we know what the end game is, we've just got to implement it."

A video of a maskless man dressed as a priest kicking at a fellow store shopper prompts outrage on Reddit.

On Tuesday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis announced that a man in the state had been infected with the new variant.

"If the variant is here, I want to know, because that would be problematic," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

More than 1.8 million children in the country have tested positive for the virus since the outbreak began.

The new strain—dubbed the "B.1.1.7 lineage"—contains more than 20 separate mutations.

The new variant could be up to 70 percent more transmissible than the original, although it does not appear to cause more severe disease.

"It is safe to be immunized after having been exposed to the virus," Moncef Slaoui said.

Vaccine providers should observe people with a history of anaphylaxis—a severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction—due to any cause for 30 minutes after the individual receives the shot.

The nurse, who has a condition that often causes her to faint when she experiences pain, recovered quickly.

Los Angeles County is seeing "an explosive and very deadly surge," with an average of two COVID-19 deaths every hour, according to the county health department.

Chicago had the most new COVID-19 deaths in the past week among the five most populous cities.

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working with other federal agencies to assess COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in real-life settings.

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In an FDA briefing released Tuesday, Moderna's vaccine was described to have "no specific safety concerns" that would preclude it from being approved for emergency use.

The funds will be used to pay salaries for roughly 550 state officers whose duties may not have been affected much by the pandemic.

Nevada, Arizona and Tennessee are among the states that reported the highest average daily cases per capita in the past week, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

About 2.9 million doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech coronavirus vaccine will be distributed across the country this week.

For the first college period during the pandemic, 21.7 percent less recent high school graduates enrolled signed up.

"Although it might seem counter-intuitive, from a research ethics viewpoint, this is a success," said researcher Diego Silva.

The French pharmaceutical giant said its vaccine candidate did not trigger a sufficient immune response in older adults.

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"I think it could be even more of a challenge than what we saw with Thanksgiving," Dr. Fauci stated.

Minks are susceptible to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, with reports of infection in the animal also occurring in Denmark and the Netherlands.

The former Food Network star criticized California's last lockdown restrictions with a sharply-worded video on Twitter.

Three Indian-made COVID-19 vaccines are currently at different stages of clinical trials.

When the University of Dayton (UD) started its fall semester at the end of August, COVID-19 tests results on campus revealed a positivity rate well above 40%. But the time the students left for Thanksgiving break last week, they had reduced that rate to less than 1%.