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The Trump administration promised that 20 million Americans would receive a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year.

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Pfizer's announcement that its coronavirus vaccine candidate is more than 90 percent effective has created great excitement and hope for a return to normalcy. But questions remain about its safety data and distribution plan.

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The outbreak is indicative of what happens when people gather in small social situations — something millions of lockdown-weary Americans are eager to do, regardless of whether they are Amish or not.

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If Democrats can win a pair of January U.S. Senate runoff races in Georgia, they will take control of Congress in addition to the White House next year. If not, Republicans will retain the Senate — and their ability to stifle any attempts at passing progressive legislation.

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Nine months after President Trump's blustery State of the Union address, his message would seem like a dispatch from a distant planet. The coronavirus was coming, and by spring, it would remake everything about the presidential race, from how Americans cast ballots to which anxieties animated their choice for president.

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Pfizer’s assertion that it is not part of Operation Warp Speed, the Trump administration’s vaccine program, is setting off a heated political debate.

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The President-elect pushed for universal mask wearing and acknowledged that cases are sure to climb into the winter months. 

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Coronavirus hospitalizations have been rapidly climbing, leading to concerns that we may once more see what we saw over the spring and early summer: crowded intensive care units, overwhelmed hospitals, deaths that could have been prevented.

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President Trump’s criticisms of the nation's top infectious disease expert have become increasingly hostile in the final days of the campaign. How should Dr. Fauci respond?

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The White House on Sunday issued a scorching statement rebuking Dr. Anthony Fauci for a recent interview warning about the ongoing dangers of the coronavirus.

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This week's fatal police shooting of Walter Wallace Jr. has again raised questions about the effectiveness of police procedures when engaging individuals with mental health issues. Officers, like the public at large, have varied opinions.

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A Yahoo News/YouGov poll found that only 27 percent of Black Americans plan to get a coronavirus vaccine if and when one becomes available. Dr. Uché Blackstock, a Yahoo News medical contributor and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, says this distrust is not unique to COVID-19. “It’s preexisting," she says, "just like the health inequities are preexisting."

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The coronavirus tore through religious school retreat in Wisconsin over the summer, fueled by a lack of proper mitigation measures. Although nobody fell seriously ill, the scope of the outbreak—an exceptionally high 76 percent infection rate—suggests the intensity with which the airborne pathogen can proliferate in the absence of appropriate measures. The outbreak is discussed in a new study published on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Polling shows the state souring on Trump's response to the pandemic as Wisconsin breaks records for new daily cases and deaths.

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Jared Kushner boasted in mid-April that President Trump was “back in charge” of the country’s response to COVID-19, “not the doctors,” and portrayed the pandemic as having entered the “comeback phase.”

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The White House acknowledged on Wednesday that a press release suggesting the Trump administration had ended the ongoing coronavirus pandemic was "poorly worded."

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Voting can be conducted safely, provided that the proper precautions are taken. States that held congressional primaries in September, including Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Delaware, did not appear to see significant case increases, despite record turnout.

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Hopes that Congress might pass another round of economic stimulus before Election Day are fading quickly. Who's responsible for holding up a deal?

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Americans are heading to the polls as coronavirus cases and deaths continue to rise. But this isn't the first time the U.S. has held an election during a deadly global pandemic. During the so-called 1918 Spanish Influenza, politicians were attempting to campaign and Americans trying to make their voices heard at the ballot box without many of the modern conveniences we have today, like mail-in and absentee voting.

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