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

More than 33 million people in the state will be affected by the lockdown.

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Last Updated: December 7, 2020, 8:34 AM EST

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 66.4 million people and killed over 1.5 million worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

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Here's how the news developed this week. All times Eastern.
Dec 03, 2020, 3:32 PM EST

Facebook to remove false vaccine claims

Facebook said it will remove false claims about COVID-19 vaccines on Facebook and Instagram.

PHOTO: A Department of Health and Human Services employee holds a COVID-19 vaccine record card Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington D.C.
A Department of Health and Human Services employee holds a COVID-19 vaccine record card Nov. 13, 2020, in Washington D.C. The cards will be sent out as part of vaccination kits from Operation Warp Speed, which is an effort by several U.S. government components and public partnerships to facilitate the development, manufacturing and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics.
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"This could include false claims about the safety, efficacy, ingredients or side effects of the vaccines. For example, we will remove false claims that COVID-19 vaccines contain microchips, or anything else that isn’t on the official vaccine ingredient list," Facebook said in a statement. "We will also remove conspiracy theories about COVID-19 vaccines that we know today are false."

Dec 03, 2020, 1:28 PM EST

Fauci predicts vaccines for older kids could be available by spring

Dr. Anthony Fauci told MSNBC Americans should expect some protection after getting the first vaccine shot, but in general, they'll be "good" about 7 to 10 days after receiving the second dose.

Passengers check bags for a Delta Air Lines, Inc. flight during the Covid-19 pandemic at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in Los Angeles, Nov. 18, 2020.
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For Pfizer's vaccine, the doses are given three weeks apart, according to Business Insider.

Regarding children and the vaccine, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases predicted trials could start in January with older children before moving on to trials on younger children. Because the vaccine will have been shown to be safe in adults, the trials for children can be relatively smaller and can move faster, he said.

Students wait in line to enter the University Neighborhood High School in New York City on Oct. 1, 2020.
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“If we start in January, a couple to three months after that” we could have a vaccine for older children, Fauci said. Then additional trials would need to be done on younger children, he said.

-ABC News' Anne Flaherty

Dec 03, 2020, 11:18 AM EST

NYC will get over 465K vaccine doses this month

New York City will receive 465,525 vaccine doses this month, with the focus on health care workers and nursing home residents first, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

After that, de Blasio said he wants to prioritize the neighborhoods hardest hit, as well as public housing residents.

Medical workers at a field hospital in New York's Central Park on April 04, 2020, in New York City.
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Two members of the Emergency Medical Team of the Fire Department of New York prepare their gurney before going on an ambulance call at the Elmhurst Hospital Center in the Queens, New York on March 30, 2020.
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The first shipments from Pfizer are expected to arrive as early as Dec. 15 while doses from Moderna, if approved on time, are set to arrive as early as Dec. 22, the mayor said.

New York City’s seven-day positivity rate stands at 5.19%.

-ABC News' Aaron Katersky

Dec 03, 2020, 11:04 AM EST

US reaches highest recorded death toll on a single day

An additional 2,804 deaths from COVID-19 were registered nationwide on Wednesday -- the highest recorded death toll on a single day for the U.S., according to a real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.

The latest daily death toll shatters the previous record of 2,609 new deaths on April 15, according to Johns Hopkins data.

A CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) worker hands COVID-19 test kits to people at a walk-up testing site in south Los Angeles, California, on Dec. 1, 2020.
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The nations death toll now stands at 273,590.

There were 200,007 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed in the U.S. on Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins -- the 30th straight day that the U.S. reported over 100,000 newly diagnosed infections, and only the second time since the start of the pandemic that the figure has exceeded 200,000. Wednesday's count is just under the country's peak of 205,557 new cases recorded last Friday, according to Johns Hopkins data.

Over 13.9 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed.

Medical workers deliver a patient to the Maimonides Medical Center in the Brooklyn borough of New York City on Dec. 2, 2020.
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