Vaccines, Electoral College, Google: Your Monday Evening Briefing
Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day.
Dec. 14, 2020
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1. On a day of hope, a reminder of the coronavirus’s devastation.
The number of people who died from the coronavirus in the U.S. passed 300,000 today, but the day also marked a turning point for frontline health care workers as they began to receive the first clinically authorized vaccine as part of the mass vaccination program.
“I believe this is the weapon that will end the war,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York said this morning, shortly before the first shot was given to Sandra Lindsay, a critical care nurse at a Long Island hospital. Above, Dr. Sylvia Owes-Ansah, an emergency department physician in Pittsburgh, was also among the first recipients of the vaccine.