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Scott allows holiday gatherings among 2 trusted households

By LISA RATHKE - Associated Press

Cooper visits Duke Hospital to observe COVID-19 vaccinations

By LUCILLE SHERMAN and The News & Observer - Associated Press

More than 4,000 Arkansas health workers get virus vaccine

Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020 file photo, a registered nurse prepares a syringe with the first round of the Pfizer COVID vaccination in Ridgeland, Miss., as state medical leaders received inoculations. On Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting a 42-year-old nurse in Alabama died after she received the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday. After being contacted by the AP, Alabama Department of Public Health officials checked with the hospitals that administered the COVID-19 vaccine to confirm that claims about the death of a nurse were false. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

By BEATRICE DUPUY and ARIJETA LAJKA and ALI SWENSON - Associated Press

Dr. Dan Schenkat shows Gov. Roy Cooper, right, a vial containing Covid-19 vaccine at UNC Health in Chapel Hill, N.C., Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, where frontline healthcare workers are among some of the first recipients of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (Travis Long/The News &amp; Observer via AP)

NC governor visits health workers getting COVID vaccine

By RICHARD STRADLING and The News & Observer - Associated Press

Nason Lui, a general surgeon at Stormont Vail Health, receives the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday morning, Dec. 16, 2020, at Stormont Vail Events Center in Topeka, Kan. (Evert Nelson/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)

Kansas reports COVID-19 death surge amid 1st vaccine shots

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

COVID-19 vaccine stickers at a clinic setup at the East Alabama Medical Center Education Center in Montgomery, Ala., on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (Jake Crandall/The Montgomery Advertiser via AP)

Claim that nurse died after getting COVID vaccine is false

By BEATRICE DUPUY - Associated Press

Dr. Maggie Hagan, an infectious disease specialist at Ascension Via Christi St. Francis hospital got the second dose of the coronavirus vaccination on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in Wichita, Kan. Garrett is a MICU nurse serving in the COVID-19 Unit. Administering it is Aimee Wilson, supervisor, Associate and Occupational Health for Ascension Via Christi. (Jaime Green/The Wichita Eagle via AP)

Health workers receive Kansas’ first coronavirus vaccines

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press

South Dakota health care providers receive COVID-19 vaccine

Associated Press

A FedEx driver gives a thumbs up after delivering a box containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to pharmacists Richard Emery, right, and Karen Nolan as it arrives at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Hospital doc receives first COVID-19 vaccine in Rhode Island

Associated Press

FedEx delivery driver Seth Warnecke delivers a box containing doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to the Minneapolis VA Hospital Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. To his far left, is VA director Patrick Kelly and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star Tribune via AP, Pool)

VA hospital in Minnesota among state’s 1st vaccine shipments

Associated Press

A resident wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus walks a dog through snow in Goyang, South Korea, Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

The Latest: COVID-19 vaccine begins arriving in Canada

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Shoppers wear mask as they leave a retail store in Downers Grove, Ill., Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. Online shopping and early Christmas shopping is key this year and it's not just keeping people safe, it's keeping local businesses open. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

The Latest: Japan’s daily virus cases rise above 3,000

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: Florida

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Pentagon announces COVID-19 vaccination pilot program

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Evers says he would ‘absolutely’ take COVID vaccine

Associated Press

FILE - This undated file photo issued by the University of Oxford on Monday, Nov. 23, 2020, shows of vial of coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University, in Oxford, England. New results released Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020, on the possible COVID-19 vaccine suggest it is safe and about 70% effective. (John Cairns/University of Oxford via AP, File)

Louisiana governor talks vaccine plans at White House event

By MELINDA DESLATTE - Associated Press

Health officials: Most will wait months for COVID vaccine

By TODD RICHMOND - Associated Press

Kentucky hospital system says trial vaccine run a success

Associated Press

Gov. Laura Kelly discusses the early stages of a distribution plan of 150,000 COVID-19 vaccines by the end of December during her press conference with Kansas health and environment secretary Lee Norman, right, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. (Evert Nelson/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP)

Kansas puts vaccine priority on grocery, meatpacking workers

By JOHN HANNA - Associated Press