A registered nurse at UCI Health, prepares a dose of Pfizer BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at the University of California, Irvine Medical Center in Orange, California, on December 16. "We will play by the rules but are doing everything we can to secure and distribute the vaccine when it's available to us." Virus continues to rage through California: Southern California has in recent weeks seen an unprecedented surge of new Covid-19 infections and hospitalizations, with hospital intensive care bed capacity plunging to 0% and health officials issuing dire warnings if the virus continues to spread out of control. Officials push back on queue jumping: When it comes cutting in line, California Gov. We will be monitoring that very, very, closely," Newsom said this month.

Source: CNN December 19, 2020 13:30 UTC