Here are some significant developments:
- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo for the first time Monday acknowledged a lack of transparency in his administration’s initial reporting of coronavirus deaths in New York nursing homes, but stopped short of an apology.
- Less than a year after being crippled with hundreds of cases, the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt has announced three new positive tests for coronavirus onboard.
- Britain’s fast-running coronavirus vaccination campaign appears to have hit its early target, offering a first dose to 15 million elderly people and health-care workers by Monday.
- Nearly a year into the pandemic, Americans are increasingly turning to more extremist beliefs marked by a wholesale distrust in authorities — a historical pattern for pandemics since ancient times.
- The World Health Organization has approved the AstraZeneca-Oxford University vaccine opening the way for millions of doses of the inexpensive vaccine to be shipped to lower income countries as part of the U.N.-backed effort to stop the pandemic.
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