In the headlines:
►Increased stimulus payments championed by President Donald Trump and Democrats alike appear to be increasingly unlikely to pass the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insists the increase should be linked with other measures championed by Trump ones that are unpopular with Democrats.
►A Wisconsin health care provider says an individual intentionally removed 57 vials of the Moderna vaccine from a refrigerator, causing them to be discarded. We are more than disappointed that this individual s action will result in a delay of more than 500 people receiving their vaccine, Advocate Aurora Health said in a statement.
►One day after Colorado confirmed the first known U.S. case of a new coronavirus strain that was first identified in the United Kingdom, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said a case of that strain has also been reported in the nation s most populous state. Meanwhile, Colorado officials said they were investigating a possible sec
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For ten months, Tesha Akins scoured the halls of Vanderbilt’s COVID-19 unit, cleaning between the illness and the death, spreading hope to patients isolated from their loved ones. She has been there when some went home. She has been there when some died.
Through it all, Akins has known that she too is at risk. It would be no surprise if the virus jumped from a patient to her, as it has to so many frontline healthcare workers combating the pandemic.
But when Akins arrives at work next week, she will be safer. Not immune, but resistant.
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It was a historic moment in the midst of the pandemic as healthcare workers were injected with the COVID-19 vaccine in Tennessee.
and last updated 2020-12-17 19:20:52-05
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WTVF) â It was a historic moment in the midst of the pandemic as health care workers were injected with the COVID-19 vaccine in Tennessee.
At Ascension Saint Thomas Rutherford, Dr. David Sellers and Dr. Diana Kooper were first to get the COVID-19 vaccine at their hospital. You need to understand that the alternative is dismal. What we have seen this disease do to patients is worth any side effect that you may or may not have, Kooper said.
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This year has been a hell of a decade. But we don t have to tell Nashville that.
A pandemic, worsened by poor leadership at the state and federal levels. A historic and deadly tornado cutting right through the heart of the city. Protests over police violence and racial injustice. Conflict, furloughs, illness, deaths a goddamn presidential election. We at the
Scene have covered as much of it as we could get our arms around in 2020, and our photographers have the shots to show for it.
Below, find some of the
Scene s favorite photos taken by staff and freelance photographers, along with a little bit of context. Below that, a slideshow with even more shots.