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Recent guidance from Operation Warp Speed and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided details to state and local health departments who will be delivering and administering the COVID-19 vaccines. They are being asked to complete a Herculean task without enough resources. Engaging effectively in public-private partnerships could be helpful in achieving the goal while leading to long-term innovation for public health.

Nevada’s rate of coronavirus infections is steadily rising again. But state officials are reluctant to blame relaxed guidelines and say there is no reason yet to consider stricter measures as they point to rates increasing across the country and the world. Gov. Steve Sisolak scheduled a news conference Tuesday afternoon to provide an update on the status of COVID-19 statewide. The rate of infections has been increasing since he eased restrictions on the size of public gatherings on Oct. 1.

In Kalamazoo, Mich., a stretch of land the size of a football field has been turned into a staging ground outfitted with 350 large freezers, ready to take delivery of millions of doses of Covid-19 vaccine before they can be shipped around the world.

Health authorities, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies are storing Covid-19 vaccines in secure, undisclosed locations and taking other steps to protect the shots against a looming threat: theft. As the leading vaccine candidates advance closer to use, vaccine makers such as Pfizer Inc. are deploying GPS software for tracking distribution and plotting fake shipments in dummy trucks to confuse criminals. 

Who can forget the the bare supermarket shelves that marked the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic? Everything from toilet paper to canned soup was in short supply, and each trip to the grocery store was a grim lesson in how deeply the virus had disrupted our lives.