Coronavirus updates: 84% of California population to go on lockdown Sunday night

Health care personnel and residents of long-term care facilities should be the first people in line to receive a potential COVID-19 vaccine, an independent group of medical experts that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted 13-1 on the recommendation in an emergency virtual meeting on Tuesday.

The panel's recommendations will be sent to the CDC, but ultimately it will be up to each state to determine whether to follow the guidelines on vaccine distribution.
    
-ABC News' Arielle Mitropoulos

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told Vice President Mike Pence and other attendees at Tuesday's White House coronavirus task force meeting that it planned to release guidance that would shorten the length of time it recommended people quarantine after being exposed to COVID-19, according to a senior Trump administration official who was at the meeting.

It will recommend COVID-exposed people with a negative test quarantine for seven days, which is down from 14 days, and that COVID-exposed people with no test quarantine for 10 days (also down from 14 days), according to the official.

The New York Times first reported on this news from Tuesday's meeting.

Assistant Health and Human Services Secretary Adm. Brett Giroir said last week the administration had been “actively working on that type of guidance” and was “reviewing the evidence.”

The official said the move was “100% data-driven.”
-ABC News' Ben Gittleson

Florida has over 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, according to the latest data from the state's Health Department.

The state reported 8,847 new cases on Tuesday, for a total of 1,008,166. There have been 18,916 deaths. 

Florida is the third state to cross 1 million COVID-19 cases, following Texas and California last month.

ABC News' Scott Withers contributed to this report

More than 1.3 million children in the U.S. have tested positive for COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic, according to a weekly report by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.

The report, which compiles state-by-state data on cases in children, found that 153,608 new cases were reported the week ending with Nov. 26 -- that number is the highest weekly increase since the pandemic began.

The total number of children in the U.S. who tested positive for the coronavirus is now 1,337,217, according to the report, which is based on the age distribution of reported cases on health department websites of 49 states, New York City, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam.

Children represented 12% of all cases in states reporting cases by age, the report states.

-ABC News' Eric Strauss contributed to this report.