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Wednesday, December 23, 2020

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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Surgeon General of the U.S. Jerome Adams, left, elbow-bumps Emergency Room technician Demetrius Mcalister Tuesday after Mcalister got the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at Saint Anthony Hospital in Chicago.

Pfizer to supply U.S. with additional 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

Pfizer said Wednesday it will supply the U.S. government with an additional 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine under a new agreement between the pharmaceutical giant and the Trump administration.
A man wearing a face mask to curb the spread of coronavirus walks past closed a pub in London. Instead of Christmas joy, a sense of dread and isolation is looming. Dozens of countries have limited flights from Britain, and daily new infections are running at record highs. Hospitals across the U.K., which has Europe’s second-highest virus-related death toll at nearly 70,000, are heading towards capacity at a time of year when other illnesses abound.

Global virus rules for Christmas: Tough, mild or none at all

In Peru, you can't drive your car on Christmas. In Lebanon, you can go to a nightclub, but you can't dance. In South Africa, roadblocks instead of beach parties will mark this year's festive season.
People walk past the Christmas tree in the Roemerberg square Monday that is reflected in a puddle in Frankfurt, Germany. All most people wanted for Christmas after this year of pandemic was some cheer and togetherness. Instead many are heading into a season of isolation, grieving lost loved ones, experiencing uncertainty about their jobs or confronting the fear of a potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus.

A season of fear, not cheer, as virus changes Christmas

All most people wanted for Christmas after this year of pandemic was some cheer and togetherness. Instead many are heading into a season of isolation, grieving lost loved ones, experiencing uncertainty about their jobs or confronting the fear of a potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus.
Marguerite Mouille, left, is greeted Monday by her grandson, Thierry Mouille, at a nursing home in Kaysesberg, France. Thierry Mouille is torturing himself over the government’s Christmas offer of a three-week window of relaxed rules. He’s changed his mind again and again about whether to bring his 94-year-old grandmother Marguerite out to share a holiday meal.

In France, a pandemic dilemma over holiday rights for elders

Not once in the long months since the pandemic struck has 74-year-old Jean-Francois been able to leave his nursing home in eastern France to visit his daughter or sister.
A vendor wearing a face covering to help prevent the spread of coronavirus sells fish from a pushcart Wednesday outside a produce market in central Bangkok. Thailand has kept the coronavirus largely in check for most of the year but is facing a challenge from a large outbreak of the virus among migrant workers linked to a major seafood market close to the Thai capital.
After months of calm, Thailand grapples with virus outbreak
After managing against the odds to keep the coronavirus largely in check for most of the year, Thailand has suddenly found itself challenged by an expanding outbreak among migrant workers on the doorstep of the capital, Bangkok.
Medical workers wearing protective gear prepare Wednesday to take sample at a coronavirus testing site in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea has added more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases in a resurgence that is erasing hard-won epidemiological gains and eroding public confidence in the government’s ability to handle the outbreak.
South Korea's cases, COVID-19 deaths spike again
South Korea has added another new 1,092 infections of the coronavirus in a resurgence that is erasing hard-won epidemiological gains and eroding public confidence in the government's ability to handle the outbreak.
George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign adviser who triggered the Russia investigation, shown here in 2018 before his first appearance before congressional investigators, on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump pardoned 15 people, including Papadopoulos, his 2016 former campaign adviser whose conversation unwittingly helped trigger the Russia investigation that shadowed Trump’s presidency for nearly two years.
Trump pardons 15, commutes 5 sentences, including GOP allies
President Donald Trump has pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans who were strong and early supporters, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad.
Durbin: Help from Congress for Illinois finances unlikely
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is touting the benefits of the pandemic and omnibus spending bill passed by Congress, but is warning Illinois' leaders not to count on future federal help to balance the state's budget
Trump: Classified material can be used in Durham probe
The special counsel investigating the origins of the FBI's probe into the 2016 election now has the authority to use classified information indefinitely in his investigation, a procedural step following his earlier appointment
Chicago man, 84, dies after vehicle strikes him at crossing
Authorities say an 84-year-old Chicago man died after he was struck by a speeding vehicle while crossing a street in his wheelchair
Indiana counties keep higher-risk status for COVID-19 spread
For a third straight week, more than a quarter of Indiana counties are rated with the highest risk level of coronavirus spread in Wednesday's state update that continued to show no area in the low or moderate community spread zones
Illinois administers over 100K COVID-19 vaccines
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Steve Mosias, left, of Palatine and Jim Bethke of Elgin, were among those who came to pay their respects to Marine Corps and Vietnam veteran Stephen Alan Myerson at Laird Funeral Home in Elgin Tuesday. Myerson had no known family when he died Sept. 11 at the Citadel Care Center in Elgin.
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Cutting your own Christmas tree may be one of the few traditions remaining relatively the same. Kai MacNicol leads her children, Max, 6, Maya, 8, and Lilly, 9, (obscured by tree) to the car with their freshly cut tree at Abbey Farms in Aurora on Saturday, November 21, 2020. “We’re trying to build a new tradition,” said the single mother from Elmhurst.
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