Two healthcare workers at Juneau, Alaska-based Bartlett Regional Hospital suffered allergic reactions minutes after receiving Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, reports The New York Times.

Here are the rates of positive COVID-19 tests in each state, along with the number of new cases most recently reported and number of tests conducted per 100,000 people. 

The CDC designed two COVID-19 vaccine stickers and communication experts say wearing them could encourage others to get vaccinated, CNN reported Dec.15. 

The Emergency Nurses Association said being vaccinated is "the world's way out of the pandemic," and encouraged all emergency nurses to get vaccinated in a Dec.15 news release. 

Kyle McGowan, a former CDC chief of staff, and Amanda Campbell, Mr. McGowan's former deputy, claim the Trump administration routinely interfered with the agency's pandemic response efforts this spring and summer, The New York Times reported Dec.16. 

Health officials are warning families in Long County, Ga., about dozens of children's potential exposure to COVID-19 after a Dec. 10 tree-lighting ceremony, reports The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Matt Hancock, U.K. health secretary, announced a genetic variant of COVID-19 has been identified in more than 1,000 cases in southeast England, though experts aren't sure whether it's responsible for the region's surge, The Washington Post reported Dec. 15.

New COVID-19 cases in the U.S. have increased by 51 percent over the last month, reports The New York Times.  

Children who attended gatherings were more likely to test positive for COVID-19, compared to those who attended school or child care, according to the CDC's Dec.15 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

Black children with sepsis are more likely to die than white or Hispanic kids, a study published Dec. 14 in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health found.

In the last month, weekly COVID-19 hospitalization rates have hit record highs for every age group, according to the CDC's latest COVIDView report published Dec. 11. 

It's in the best interest of national security for President Donald Trump and President-elect Joe Biden to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible, Anthony Fauci, MD director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told ABC's Good Morning America Dec. 15. 

Across three national news networks, physician voices accounted for just one-fifth of unique guest speakers and less than one-third of speaking time on COVID-19 content, according to research published in JAMA Internal Medicine Dec. 14. 

How much do politics affect a person's willingness to social distance amid the pandemic? Quite a bit, according to a study published in Science Advances Dec. 11. 

The percentage of visits to an outpatient provider for flu-like illness remained at 1.6 percent for a third consecutive week, according to the CDC's FluView report for the week ending Dec. 5.

The nation's COVID-19 death toll surpassed 300,000 Dec. 14, the same day the first Americans received Pfizer's vaccine. 

Sandra Lindsay, RN, a critical care nurse and intensive care unit director at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, became the first American to receive Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 14, reports The New York Times.

While the U.S. began administering the first doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine Dec. 14, the CDC urged physicians to communicate with their patients on vaccine safety standards, according to The New York Times.

In order to improve patient care and alleviate nurses from routine overtime, healthcare organizations and lawmakers need to correct staffing shortages, one nurse wrote in an op-ed published in The Columbus Dispatch. 

A new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis explores the potential challenges associated with multidose COVID-19 vaccines by examining past immunization trends for Shingrix, a shingles vaccine for people 50 and older that also requires two doses. The vaccine requires patients to receive a second dose within two to six months after the first.