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Monday, Dec. 28. Here’s what’s happening with the coronavirus in California and beyond. Newsletter Get our free Coronavirus Today newsletter Sign up for the latest news, best stories and what they mean for you, plus answers to your questions. Enter email address You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times. By Thanksgiving week in Los Angeles County, 4,000 people were testing positive for the coronavirus each day a record at the time. Now, after people traveled and gathered for that holiday in spite of health officials’ pleas, the county averages 14,000 cases per day. The exploding number of COVID-19 patients is making intensive care unit beds vanishingly scarce and causing apocalyptic scenes ....
MEXICO CITY An intensive care nurse in Mexico City on Thursday became the first person in Latin America to receive an approved COVID-19 vaccine. Mexico began administering the first 3,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in a broadcast ceremony in which Maria Irene Ramírez, 59, got the first shot under the watchful eyes of military personnel who escorted the vaccine shipment. “This is the best present I could have received in 2020,” said Ramírez. ”The truth is we are afraid, but we have to keep going because someone has to be in the front line of this battle.” Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell waxed poetic, saying, “Today the stage of the epidemic and its treatment changes, to a ray of hope.” ....