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The agency previously recommended that anyone who was exposed to Covid-19 quarantine for 14 days.

The departments of Health and Human Services and Defense are holding a joint briefing on the Trump administration’s coronavirus vaccine program.

“If you look across the United States, we are really in a public health crisis right now,” Dr. Anthony Fauci told Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel is voting on who will be first in line to get the coronavirus vaccine.

President Trump’s coronavirus vaccine czar said that Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines are safe, with only 10% to 15% of volunteers reporting side effects that were “significantly noticeable.”

Moderna will be the second drugmaker to seek emergency use from the FDA after Pfizer applied for the same authorization on Nov. 20.

“If a hospital gets overwhelmed, there will be a state investigation,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

The World Health Organization is holding a briefing on the Covid-19 pandemic.

“These lines are going to continue until a vaccine comes out and until the nice weather comes about,” Summit CityMD CEO Dr. Jeffrey Le Benger said.

“I’m not scared for the day itself, but for what’s going to happen, two, three and four weeks later,” Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician in Rhode Island, said.

“I mean, frankly we probably should have done this sooner,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner, told CNBC.

Operation Warp Speed’s Chief Science Advisor Moncef Slaoui said, “We hope that we’d have vaccinated 70% to 80% of the U.S. population by May or June of 2021.”

Cuomo said distributing a vaccine is going to be much harder than anticipated, citing the early difficulties states had in administering Covid tests.

Doctors urge the CDC to be transparent about the side effects people may experience after getting their first shot of a coronavirus vaccine.

On Monday, Cuomo announced that the state would reopen a temporary field hospital on Staten Island to help treat an influx of coronavirus patients.

The new test is important because it can be used by researchers to further study the relationship between Covid-19 antibodies and protection against the virus.

Eric Cooper, CEO of the San Antonio Food Bank in Texas, said that they now feed double the amount of people they used to compared to pre-pandemic levels.

“I didn’t expect to get vaccine so soon, frankly,” chief clinical officer of UT Health Dr. Amy Young said. “We’ll be ready for it whenever we get it.”

WASHINGTON — Department of Defense officials are slated to address the spike in coronavirus cases within the U.S. military at a press briefing on Tuesday. In the past week, U.S. Defense officials recorded more than 1,300 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 among members of the armed forces. Nearly a quarter of the roughly 300 sailors stationed on guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy have tested positive...

The Cleveland Clinic’s Chief Caregiver Officer urged her community to follow social distancing and mask guidelines as Covid-19 grips caregivers in her hospital.