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US boosting vaccine deliveries amid complaints of shortages

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Biden, calling the push a “wartime effort,” said Tuesday the administration was working to buy an additional 100 million doses of each of the two approved coronavirus vaccines ...

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COVID-19 in Wisconsin: 54 new deaths, 1,301 new cases

FILE - This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, U.S. health regulators OK'd the first coronavirus test that allows people to collect their own sample at home, a new approach that could help expand testing options in most states. The sample will still have to be shipped for processing back to LabCorp, which operates diagnostic labs throughout the U.S.

Biden administration to boost vaccine supply next week

Vaccine appointments canceled amid confusion over supply

In this Jan. 21, 2021, file photo, people who had appointments to get COVID-19 vaccinations talk to New York City health care workers outside a closed vaccine hub in the Brooklyn borough of New York after they were told to come back in a week due to a shortage of vaccines. An increasing number of COVID-19 vaccination sites around the U.S. are canceling appointments because of vaccine shortages in a rollout so rife with confusion and unexplained bottlenecks.

MDH reports 8 new COVID-related deaths, 727 new cases

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Mayo Clinic doctor becomes Delta's 1st chief health officer

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Extended 24-hour window to pre-register for COVID-19 vaccine opens to those 65+

Minnesotans who are 65 and older are able to participate in pre-registration that started at 5 a.m...

A nurse prepares a dose of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the new coronavirus to be injected at the Andras Josa Teaching Hospital in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021.

EU demands that vaccine makers honor their commitments

The European Union on Tuesday warned pharmaceutical giants that develop coronavirus vaccines to honor their contractual obligations after slow deliveries of shots from two companies hampered the bloc's vaunted vaccine rollout in several nations...

MDH confirms nation's first known COVID-19 case associated with Brazil variant

Laboratory employees work on the pilot production phase of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine for COVID-19 at the pharmaceutical company Uniao Quimica in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021.

Biden more bullish on vaccines, suggests 1.5M shots per day

President-elect Joe Biden departs a news conference after introducing his nominees and appointees to economic policy posts at The Queen theater, Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Wilmington, Del.

EU pressures AstraZeneca to deliver vaccines as promised

European Council President Charles Michel, left, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen leave after a joint news conference at the end of a EU summit video conference at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021.

California lifts virus stay-at-home orders, curfew statewide

Ranim Abaad and Joey Bettencourt, right, have lunch at the RIND in Sacramento, Calif., Friday, Nov. 20, 2020.

In this Dec. 18, 2020 file photo, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador points to a graph showing the percentages of hospital beds available, state by state, during his daily news conference at the presidential palace, Palacio Nacional, in Mexico City.

Mexican president tests positive for COVID-19, symptoms mild

Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador was working from isolation on Monday, a day after announcing that he had tested positive for COVID-19, his interior secretary said...

US virus numbers drop, but race against new strains heats up

Cars line up for COVID-19 testing, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, outside Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. Coronavirus deaths and cases per day in the U.S. dropped markedly over the past couple of weeks but are still running at alarmingly high levels, and the effort to snuff out COVID-19 is becoming an ever more urgent race between the vaccine and the mutating virus.

Amid high demand, officials announce updates to Minnesota's community vaccination efforts

A vial of the COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna sits on a table top to be used in vaccinating employees in the first round of staff vaccinations at Rose Medical Center Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, in Denver.

3 new COVID-related deaths, 794 new cases reported by MDH

Less than 5% of Minnesotans have received at least 1 vaccine dose

FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2020, file photo Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, prepares to receive his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md.

Fauci: Prep on vaccine variant upgrade has begun

In this March 19, 2020, file photo, a biosafety protective suit for handling viral diseases are hung up in a biosafety level 4 training facility at U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md., where scientists are working to help develop solutions to prevent, detect and treat the coronavirus. China is trying to spread doubt about the effectiveness of Western vaccines and the origin of the coronavirus as a World Health Organization-selected team of scientists are in the city where the pandemic first broke out.

China pushes conspiracy theories on COVID origin, vaccines

FILE- This May 1, 2018, file photo shows Merck corporate headquarters in Kenilworth, N.J. The drugmaker will stop developing two potential COVID-19 vaccines after seeing poor results in early-stage studies. The company said Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, that it will focus instead on studying two possible treatments for the virus that also have yet to be approved by regulators.

Merck ends development of two potential COVID-19 vaccines

Walz announces sweeping education plan amid ongoing pandemic

Monday, Gov. Tim Walz and Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan unveiled a new education plan for Minnesota ...

Gov. Walz speaks during a press conference on education reform on Jan. 25, 2021.

White House begins talks with lawmakers on COVID-19 relief

Top aides to President Joe Biden on Sunday began talks with a group of moderate Senate Republicans and Democrats on a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package as Biden faces increasing headwinds in his effort to win bipartisan backing for the initial legislative effort of his presidency...

An American flag flies above the White House in Washington, Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021.

COVID-19 in Wisconsin: 6 newly reported deaths, 1,119 newly reported cases

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reported six more deaths from COVID-19 on Sunday, bringing the state's total to 5,691 since the start of the pandemic...

In this April 2, 2020, file photo a nurse holds a vial and a swab at a drive-up coronavirus testing station at a hospital in Seattle. A federal report due out Monday, April 6, finds that three out of four U.S. hospitals surveyed are already treating patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19.

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