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The rise in Covid-19 infections and subsequent hospital stays has squeezed health care systems and strained first responders. The Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield, said Wednesday the next three months are likely to be “the most difficult in the public health history of this nation,” with cases, hospitalizations and deaths set to climb. The U.S. is inching closer to a vaccine approval, with Pfizer and Moderna each having filed for emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><img border=0 width=678 height=322 id="Picture_x0020_26" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D6CA30.DA8A3560" alt="https://image.cnbcfm.com/api/v1/image/106805433-1606954912274-20201202_us_hospitalizations.png?v=1606954938&w=678&h=321"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The following data was compiled by Johns Hopkins University:</span></em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Global cases: More than 64.91 million <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Global deaths: At least 1.5 million<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>U.S. cases: More than 14.05 million<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo8'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>U.S. deaths: At least 275,201<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:79.3pt;line-height:17.25pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:17.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>California readies for regional stay-at-home orders based on ICU capacity<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state will impose a regional stay-at-home order to help ease coronavirus patients in its intensive-care units.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The state will be split into five regions — the Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, Northern California, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. If the remaining ICU capacity in a region falls below 15%, it will trigger a three-week stay-at-home order, the Democratic governor said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The order would require bars, wineries, personal services, hair salons and barbershops to temporarily close. Personal services are businesses like nail salons, tattoo parlors and body waxing, according to the state’s website. Schools that meet the state’s health requirements and critical infrastructure would be allowed to remain open, and retail stores could operate at 20% capacity and restaurants would be allowed to offer take-out and delivery, he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>None of the regions have triggered the order so far, Newsom said, though he anticipates four of the five areas to have less than 15% ICU capacity “as early as the next day or two.” The Bay Area is projected to reach that milestone by mid-to-late December.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:17.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h2><h2 style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:17.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Pfizer shares fall on report it previously cut Covid vaccine rollout target<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pfizer shares fell nearly 2% at the end of the trading session after a Wall Street Journal report said the U.S. drugmaker’s current vaccine rollout target is only half of what it originally, privately planned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pfizer has publicly said it plans to ship 50 million vaccines by the end of the year, but the Journal reports supply chain problems forced that number down from an original 100 million doses. Pfizer has also said it plans to ship up to 1.3 billion doses by the end of 2021. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“There are several factors which have impacted the number of doses estimated to be available in 2020,” Pfizer said in a statement. “For one, scaling up a vaccine at this pace is unprecedented, and we have made significant progress as we have moved forward in the unknown.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pfizer’s vaccine uses messenger RNA, or mRNA, technology. It’s a new approach to vaccines that uses genetic material to provoke an immune response.<br><i><br style='box-sizing: border-box'><br></i><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Global death toll climbs to 1.5 million<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The global death toll of the coronavirus has climbed to 1.5 million, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University. More than 10,000 people die each day due to the virus, Reuters reports.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The U.S. alone has recorded 275,000 deaths, the highest in the world, followed by Brazil and India with 174,000 and 138,000 recorded deaths, respectively.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Global health officials have warned the next few months, while colder temperatures set in and before an approved vaccine can be widely distributed, will be among the most difficult of the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:79.3pt;line-height:17.25pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:17.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Can employers require workers to get a Covid vaccine?<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>While experts maintain that vaccination against the coronavirus will be key to protecting workers, some Americans remain unsure about the shot. Experts say that in many cases, employers are legally able to require that workers receive the vaccine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“In general, yes, employers are able to mandate the vaccine when it becomes available with, of course, a bunch of caveats,” says employment lawyer Lindsay Ryan, noting that accommodations can be made for people with specific medical conditions and those with sincerely held religious convictions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Getting back to normal, based on what we know at this moment in time, requires entire units to be vaccinated,” says Dr. Howard Forman, director of Yale University’s MD/MBA program. “And that’s going to be difficult for employers.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:79.3pt;line-height:17.25pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:17.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Dr. Fauci suggests avoiding travel, gatherings for upcoming holidays<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Americans should avoid traveling and congregating for the remainder of the holiday season, White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci said, warning that the current surge of Covid-19 hospitalizations “is not fake.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“I know how difficult that is, we all have a strong degree of empathy knowing — and myself included — about wanting to be with your family, wanting to have a large Christmas dinner with family and friends over,” Fauci told MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Right now that just should not be done. To the best of our capabilities we should avoid travel and avoid congregate settings,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Fauci’s recommendations come after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advised people on Wednesday against traveling for the winter holidays.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:79.3pt;line-height:17.25pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:17.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>States, cities pay stimulus as Congress delays action<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Some states and cities are issuing Covid relief to residents as negotiations on a federal stimulus package continue on Capitol Hill.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Alaska, California, Colorado, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico and New York City are among those that have paid varying levels of aid over the past two weeks.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The measures include stimulus checks, extra unemployment benefits, interest-free loans for small businesses and housing assistance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In Washington, lawmakers are inching toward compromise. Millions of unemployed workers, renters and student borrowers will lose protections at end of the month without federal extensions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:2.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:15.0pt;margin-left:79.3pt;line-height:17.25pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:17.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Bill Gates: The U.S. could be ‘headed back to normal’ by spring<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Bill Gates expects the U.S. to be on its way back to normal by spring 2021, with promising vaccines on the horizon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist said during an interview with NBC’s “TODAY” that, while the “next four or five months actually look pretty grim,” advancements in vaccines and monoclonal antibody therapeutic treatments could significantly curtail the virus.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“By the spring, those numbers will be big enough that, certainly in the United States, it’ll start to change for us dramatically, and we’ll be headed back to normal,” Gates said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Gates’ prediction matches what Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading expert on infectious diseases, has said about vaccination timelines. By April, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhasPXMFZlI&amp;t=9s" target="_blank"><span style='color:windowtext'>Fauci said</span></a>, healthy young people with no underlying conditions will be able to “walk in to a CVS or to a Walgreens and get vaccinated.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>As for what to do in the interim, Gates said, “the most impactful thing” people can do is follow prevention measures, such as social distancing and wearing a mask when exposed to someone outside your household.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:17.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Southwest warns of mass layoffs to slash costs<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Southwest Airlines warned more than 6,800 employees that they could be furloughed unless unions agree to concessions to get the company through the financial pain of the coronavirus pandemic. The job cuts would be the first in Southwest’s nearly 50-years of flying.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Dallas-based airline said it sent federally-mandated notices warning about layoffs to 6,828 employees, including more than 1,200 pilots, 1,500 flight attendants, 1,110 customer service staff, and more than 2,500 ramp, cargo and other operation staff.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The cuts would take effect in mid-March or April 1. Such notices usually are sent to employees 60 days before a furlough or layoff takes effect and Southwest’s pilots’ union dismissed the move as a pressure tactic to gain leverage in cost-cutting negotiations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:17.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></h2><h2 style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;line-height:17.25pt'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Why the U.K. authorized Pfizer’s vaccine — but not the U.S. yet<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The U.K.’s authorization of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use will likely add pressure on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to quickly do the same.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The U.S. and the U.K. review vaccines differently, however. Pfizer had been submitting data on its vaccine on a “rolling basis” to the U.K., meaning regulators there were able to review the data in real-time. A rolling review is a tool that regulators use to speed up the assessment of promising drugs or vaccines.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In the U.S., the FDA will go through every aspect of the data submitted in the application, including reviewing all safety data “to make sure there are no cracks” and everything is “solid,” said Dr. Paul Offit, a voting member of the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, which is scheduled to review Pfizer’s vaccine on Dec. 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> “When you talk about a 44,000-person trial, that’s a lot of clinical data,” he added.<br><br style='box-sizing: border-box'><br></span><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></em></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>UK receives its first batch of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext;mso-fareast-language:EN-ZW'><o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The first doses of Pfizer/BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine arrived in the UK on Thursday -- a day after the country approved the vaccine for distribution, according to British media.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pfizer and Downing Street declined to comment to CNN, citing security reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The UK’s Department of Health told CNN that up to 800,000 doses of the vaccine are being made available next week. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The vaccines were carried by a fleet of unmarked trucks through the Eurotunnel from Belgium and are on their way to undisclosed storage facilities in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, according to CNN affiliate ITV News.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The in-demand vaccine will be distributed from these storage facilities early next week to 50 hospital hubs acting as vaccination points, according to the health ministry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Earlier on Thursday, England's Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Jonathan Van-Tam, said "We expect to receive (the Pfizer vaccine) very shortly in the UK, and I do mean hours, not days," in an interview with BBC Radio.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>First vaccine approval: </span></strong><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The UK became the first western country to authorize use of a coronavirus vaccine. The country has ordered 40 million doses of the Pfizer jab, enough to vaccinate 20 million people -- roughly a third of the UK's population -- as the vaccination involves two shots administered at least three weeks apart.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Michigan to use National Guard to help distribute vaccines<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Thursday that the state will look to the Michigan National Guard to help distribute Covid-19 vaccines when they become available.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The National Guard will provide logistical and transportation support, according to a release from the Governor’s office. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>This comes after Whitmer secured an extension of Michigan National Guard forces for Covid-19 response through March 31, 2021. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“The Michigan National Guard continues to be a crucial part of our fight against the Covid-19 pandemic. I want to thank our men and women in uniform for their dedication and round-the-clock work to protect the people of our state by expanding testing in our communities and ensuring they have what they need to get through this crisis,” Whitmer said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Los Angeles County sets another daily record for new Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>An aerial view of cars are lined up at Dodger Stadium for COVID-19 testing over downtown Los Angeles, on December 2. Mario Tama/Getty Images<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Los Angeles County reported an additional 7,854 Covid-19 cases Thursday, breaking the record for the highest number of new cases there since the start of the pandemic for the second time in a week. This brings the total number of cases in the county to 421,881.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Health officials also reported 2,572 people hospitalized with coronavirus in L.A. County, surpassing yesterday's all-time high of 2,439. If the rate of hospitalizations continues on its current trajectory, the county's health care system could soon be overwhelmed, officials warned.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"These are the highest numbers we have seen," said County Health Officer Dr. Muntu Davis. "Actions need to be taken now and on a daily basis."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>County health officials reported 44 new deaths Thursday, raising the number of people who have died due to Covid-19 to 7,345.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>While there are 1,119 beds currently available in intensive care units in the county, officials warned the ICU bed capacity is bound to drop below 15% at some point next week. Passing that threshold will prompt stricter stay-at-home orders, as outlined by Gov. Gavin Newsom Thursday afternoon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>"A continued surge in cases and hospitalizations is not sustainable because as hospitalizations increase sharply, the health care system can become overwhelmed," the county's health department said in a news release.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Los Angeles recently imposed a curfew and closed all in-person restaurant dining to reduce the transmission of the virus. Some businesses that are not adhering to public health orders by closing their doors or limiting capacity in line with public health directives are now receiving citations, the county said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>US sets new record for Covid-19 hospitalizations<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The United States set a record for the number of people currently hospitalized with Covid-19 on Thursday, according to the Covid Tracking Project (CTP).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>On Thursday, 100,667 people were hospitalized with Covid-19, according to CTP. This is the second consecutive day that the US has surpassed 100,000 current hospitalizations.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>According to CTP data, the highest hospitalization numbers are:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dec .3: 100,667<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dec. 2: 100,226<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>3.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Dec. 1: 98,691<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>4.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nov. 30: 96,053<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>5.<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Nov. 29: 93,265</span><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:-18.0pt'><b><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Moderna expects to have 100-125 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine globally in early 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Vaccine maker Moderna said Thursday it expects to have between 100 million and 125 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine available by the first quarter of 2021, with most of those designated for the US market.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The company has applied for emergency use authorization for its vaccine from the US Food and Drug Administration and FDA advisers are scheduled to discuss the application Dec. 17. Moderna has also applied to European drug regulators for conditional approval.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Today, Moderna re-affirmed its expectation of having approximately 20 million doses available in the U.S. by the end of 2020,” the company said in a statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Additionally, the Company expects to have between 100 million and 125 million doses available globally in the first quarter of 2021, with 85-100 million of those available in the U.S. and 15-25 million of those available outside of the U.S. These expected first quarter doses are inclusive within the 500 million to up to 1 billion doses that the Company expects to manufacture globally in 2021.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The Moderna vaccine requires two doses per person, with the shots spaced four weeks apart. </span><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span class=sc-baeiuo><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pfizer says it still doesn't know if someone can transmit Covid-19 after receiving vaccine<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It’s still unclear whether a person who receives Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine can still transmit the virus, company CEO Albert Bourla said Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“I think this is something that needs to be examined,” Bourla said in an interview with NBC News scheduled to air Thursday night. “We are not certain about that right now with what we know.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Bourla also told host Lester Holt he believes vaccine trial participants who received a placebo rather that the actual shot should get the vaccine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“It is a moral and ethical dilemma and obligation,” Bourla said. “I believe that in discussion with regulators, we should find a way, so sooner rather than later, give to all the placebo participants the vaccine.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>If that happens, it would mean unblinding the vaccine trial – something that could impact the longer term results, health experts have said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Pfizer has asked the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization for its vaccine. The FDA’s advisers meet Dec. 10 to discuss the application.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>But Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and a member of the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee, told Holt there are still a lot of unanswered questions.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We sort of have a million questions to make sure that we understand exactly what the safety issues are and exactly what the efficacy issues are,” Offit said. “Is it effective in people over 65? Is it equally effective among racial groups, ethnic groups? Is it effective in people who have various medical conditions?”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>But there’s one question that he does have an answer for, Offit said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“The standard we're going to hold this too is, would I give this vaccine to myself or my own family? And if the answer to that question is, ‘I'm not sure,’ then we're not going to move forward.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Arkansas reports highest daily Covid-19 case count since the start of the pandemic<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Arkansas has reported 2,789 Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said during a news conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Hutchinson said this is the highest daily count the state has reported since the pandemic began.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The state has 32 counties that have reported over 20 new cases in the last 24 hours. They usually report 10 counties having reached that distinction, Hutchinson said noting the increase. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“This is a message to everyone that wherever you are in the state of Arkansas, there are increased number of Covid cases, increased level of spread. And you have to protect yourself, you have to wear your mask and keep the social distance,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Since the start of the pandemic, the state has reported 164,310 cases and 2,555 deaths. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><em><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>To note: </span></b></em><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>These numbers were released by the state’s health agency and may not line up exactly in real time with CNN’s database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project.</span></em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>More than 12,000 health workers in Kentucky will receive the vaccine first, governor says<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Thursday that 12,675 of the 38,000 doses in the first shipment of Pfizer vaccines to reach the state will be going to frontline health care workers, those dealing with or exposed to Covid-19, and those working in the emergency room or in Covid-wings. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>According to the governor, the shipments will arrive as early as Dec. 15 and the remaining two thirds of the doses will be going to long-term care facilities, where CVS and Walgreens will handle distribution and administration, Beshear said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The governor announced that the first 11 health care sites that will be receiving doses, were chosen because they were large enough to handle the minimum pallet size Pfizer ships, and because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention required that they have ultra-low cold storage to receive them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We're allowing each of these facilities to make their own allocations, based on tearing that they have done with their staff, they know who is most at risk and have done that analysis,” Beshear said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Wyoming's first lady tests positive for Covid-19<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Eight days after Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon tested positive for Covid-19, his wife received the same diagnosis Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>First lady Jennie Gordon has been in quarantine at home with the governor since he first tested positive, but spokesperson Michael Pearlman tells CNN they have stayed in separate rooms. Pearlman does not believe the first lady’s infection will affect the governor’s timetable for returning to the office.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“The First Lady is only experiencing minor symptoms at this time. Governor Gordon has recovered and is nearly symptom free,” the governor’s office said in a written statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Houston nears 100,000 total Covid-19 cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Medical staff members communicate each other in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 2, in Houston, Texas. Go Nakamura/Getty Images<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Houston is nearing 100,000 total Covid-19 cases, according to the latest information provided by the mayor's office.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The city has 1,137 new positive cases being reported today, bringing the total to 99,396, the city's health department says. So far, 97% of the cases reported today were from tests over the past two weeks. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>There were three new deaths being reported for a total of 1,444 since the start of the pandemic, according to the Houston Health Department. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Note: These numbers were released by the city's health agency and may not line up exactly in real time with CNN’s database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project.</span></em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>CDC director accepts advisory committee's recommendations for who gets Covid-19 vaccine first<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Robert Redfield has accepted the Covid-19 vaccine recommendations voted on this week by the agency’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The CDC’s vaccine advisers voted 13-1 on Tuesday to recommend that health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities be first in line for any coronavirus vaccines that get emergency authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Dr. Redfield supports their recommendations and has signed the memo and accepted these interim recommendations,” the CDC said in a statement on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>In the statement, Redfield thanked the advisory committee members for their work and suggested future Covid-19 vaccine recommendations prioritize older people living in multi-generational households.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“Dr. Redfield looks forward to future recommendations that, based on vaccine availability, demonstrate that we as a Nation also prioritize the elderly (>70 yo) who reside in multi-generation households,” the statement said. “Often our Hispanic, Black and Tribal Nations families care for their elderly in multigenerational households and they are also at significant risk. This framework, in addition to the ACIP guidance, will ensure a more equitable distribution to those most at risk for hospitalizations and fatalities.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>California's governor announces new regional stay-at-home order based on ICU capacity <o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Millions of Californians may soon find themselves under stay home orders once again due to new restrictions announced by Gov. Gavin Newsom. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The new order comes as the state sees a record surge of new cases and hospitalizations that are projected to overwhelm hospitals by Christmas.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The governor’s new stay-at-home order will take hold in regions where hospitals are feeling the squeeze on capacity to treat the incoming surge of Covid-19 patients.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The strict stay-at-home order will go into effect when intensive care unit capacity drops to 15%. Under the new plan, California will be divided into five regions — Northern California, Bay Area, Greater Sacramento, San Joaquin Valley and Southern California.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>None of the five regions are currently under the new order, but projections show four regions will reach that threshold in the next day or two, with only the San Francisco Bay Area expected to remain open until mid-December, Newsom said at a news conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Newsom acknowledged that the new restrictions, which shutters many nonessential businesses and operations and prohibits most travel, will not be well-received by some, specifically small businesses, outlining several state programs designed to help. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“It’s never enough,” he said. “I’m mindful that we must do more.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Essential businesses can remain open, but may only allow 20% capacity. Areas that must be closed include hair salons and barbershops, bars and breweries, playgrounds, amusement parks, and indoor recreation facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>California’s Covid-19 crisis shows no signs of slowing as the state added 18,591 more cases Thursday, bringing the total to 1,264,539.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Surge facilities are being prepped to be brought online in 11 locations from Sacramento to San Diego, Newsom said. The state’s stockpile of personal protective equipment is full.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>“We do not anticipate having to do this once again,” Newsom said. “There is light at the end of the tunnel. We are few months away from truly seeing real progress with the vaccine. We have distribution, we have accessibility, we have availability.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><em><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Note: These numbers were released by the California Department of Public Health and may not line up exactly in real time with CNN’s database drawn from Johns Hopkins University and the Covid Tracking Project. <o:p></o:p></span></em></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>France plans to start vaccinating "within weeks," prime minister says<br></span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>France’s coronavirus vaccination campaign will begin in “a matter of weeks” and will be free, French Prime Minister Jean Castex told a news conference on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Care home residents and workers — an estimated one million people — will receive priority for vaccination. The second phase, starting in February 2021, will include the elderly, patients with chronic diseases and health professionals, Castex said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is due to decide by Dec. 29 on the Pfizer/BioNtech and Moderna vaccines but they will also need approval from France’s health authority, Castex said. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>France has already ordered 200 million vaccines, enough to inoculate 100 million people with the necessary two doses each, Castex added.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The premier hailed the “remarkable work conducted at the European level” to negotiate the same prices for all countries in the European Union, with the number of doses determined according to each country’s population. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Immunologist Alain Fischer has been appointed as France’s Covid-19 vaccine campaign coordinator and the vaccine strategy itself will be presented to the French parliament this month.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>Portugal plans to vaccinate nearly 1 million people starting in January<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=MsoNormal style='box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Health workers attend to patients at the Covid-19 ward of the Curry Cabral hospital in Lisbon, Portugal on November 18. Patricia De Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Portugal plans to provide universal free vaccination against Covid-19 and hopes to vaccinate nearly a million people starting in January as part of the first phase of its vaccine rollout, health officials said on Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The first phase of vaccination will prioritize around 400,000 people who are over the age of 50 and have pre-existing conditions such as heart or lung disease or kidney failures, according to the Covid-19 task force coordinator Francisco Ramos.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Also first in line are 250,000 people living or working in care homes and intensive care unit patients, in addition to about 300,000 frontline health workers.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>The second phase of vaccinations would include those 65 and over, followed by 50- to 64-year-olds with certain health problems.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Although no vaccine has formally been authorized yet, six agreements have been made with various vaccine manufacturers, including AstraZeneca, CureVac, Pfizer-BioNTech, Johnson & Johnson, Moderna and Sanofi-GSK, according to Rui Santos Ivo, who heads the medical regulatory body Infarmed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Portugal expects to spend around 200 million Euros (around $243 million) on 22 million doses of the vaccine, according to Health Minister Marta Temido.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:windowtext'>US surpasses 14 million Covid-19 cases<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>There have been at least 14,012,378 cases of coronavirus in the United States and at least 274,648 people have died from Covid-19, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>It took the United States 248 days to reach 7 million Covid-19 cases, according to Johns Hopkins University data. It only took the nation 69 days to reach the second 7 million cases.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Johns Hopkins recorded the first case of coronavirus in the United States on Jan. 21. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>98 days later, on April 28, the US hit 1 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>44 days later, on June 11, the US hit 2 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>27 days later, on July 8, the US hit 3 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>15 days later, on July 23, the US hit 4 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>17 days later, on Aug. 9, the US hit 5 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>22 days later, on Aug. 31, the US hit 6 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>25 days later, on Sept. 25, the US hit 7 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>21 days later on Oct. 16, the US hit 8 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>14 days later, on Oct. 30, the US hit 9 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>9 days later, on Nov. 8, the US hit 10 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>7 days later, on Nov. 15, the US hit 11 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>6 days later on Nov. 21, the US hit 12 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>6 days later, on Nov. 27, the US hit 13 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>6 days later, on Dec. 3, the US hit 14 million cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=sc-gzmcbi style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm;box-sizing: border-box;-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>According to Johns Hopkins, 13 other countries in the world have reported more than 1 million total Covid-19 cases:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>India has over 9 million total cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'>Brazil has over 6 million total cases<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:0cm;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo5'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> 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