Health officials track safety as COVID-19 vaccines roll out— California sets records for cases, deaths as virus surges— US angling to secure more of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine — The first COVID-19 vaccinations are underway at U.S.
nursing homes, where the virus has killed upwards of 110,000 people, even as the nation struggles to contain a surge so alarming that California is dispensing thousands of body bags and lining up refrigerated morgue trailers. — Germany has hit a new record level of deaths from the coronavirus as it enters a harder lockdown, closing shops and schools to try to bring down stubbornly high new cases. — The U.K.