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White House plans to buy millions more vaccines

The Biden administration's push to purchase 200 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses would put the government's total order at enough to vaccinate more than 90% of the U.S. population. Dr. Neeta Ogden spoke with CBSN about what the government still needs to do to make the vaccine rollout a success, new Centers for Disease Control guidance on in-school learning and why Regeneron's latest study on its antibody cocktail's strength against coronavirus variants is good news.

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Experts fear post-holiday COVID surge

The coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. is getting more dire by the day. Estimates show one American is dying from the virus every 30 seconds. Meanwhile, cases and hospitals are skyrocketing as experts warn the worst is yet to come as CBS News correspondents Jonathan Vigliotti and Manuel Bojorquez report. Then, Dr. Richard Besser, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the former acting director of the CDC, joins CBSN to discuss the latest on the fight against COVID-19.

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CDC predicts 80,000 COVID-19 deaths in January

The number of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. -- more than 342,000 to close out 2020-- is rapidly increasing. Only about 2.8 million people have received the first dose of the vaccine, far short of the government's goal of 20 million people vaccinated by the end of the year, as the highly infectious U.K. variant is being reported in at least two states. Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, discusses with Jamie Yuccas on CBSN.

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