Coronavirus updates: State reports over 49,000 new cases, 468 new deaths

More than 373,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.

Last Updated: January 8, 2021, 4:33 PM EST

A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 90 million people worldwide and killed over 1.9 million of them, 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.
Jan 08, 2021, 4:33 PM EST

Biden to get 2nd vaccine dose on Monday

President-elect Joe Biden will get his second vaccine dose in public on Monday “to continue to instill confidence in the vaccine’s safety and efficacy,” said incoming White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

This will be 21 days after Biden received the first dose, she said.

President-elect Joe Biden delivers remarks before announcing members of his cabinet that will round out his economic team in Wilmington, Del., Jan. 8, 2021.
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When Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris receives her second dose, it will also be in public, she said.

Psaki added, “The Biden-Harris transition team today started to vaccinate incoming members of the administration. Up to 35 individuals will be vaccinated.”

“These individuals are people who will be in close proximity to the President or Vice President, who are critical members of the National Security team or are Cabinet nominees in the line of succession to the presidency,” she said. “These vaccinations are being conducted now so that these individuals can complete their inoculation shortly after January 20. The vaccine being used for this purpose is coming from supplies previously allocated to the White House medical unit.”

ABC News’ John Verhovek and Molly Nagle contributed to this report.

Jan 08, 2021, 3:31 PM EST

NFL stadium to open as 24/7 vaccination site in Arizona

State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals, will open as a 24/7 vaccination site on Monday, Gov. Doug Ducey said.

The site aims to "vaccinate thousands more individuals each day as Maricopa County, the state’s largest county, moves into Phase 1B of vaccine distribution," the governor’s office said. “The start of that phase prioritizes protective service workers, teachers and K-12 school staff, child care workers, and those age 75 and older.”

State Farm Stadium will offer vaccines beginning Monday for law enforcement and other protective service workers. Appointments for others in Phase 1B and Phase 1A will be available starting Tuesday.

Jan 08, 2021, 2:16 PM EST

California reports over 50K cases in 1 day

California reported 50,030 new cases and an additional 493 deaths on Friday.

Hospitalizations in the hard-hit state are down just 0.1%.

Coronavirus patients coming in emergency are housed in a makeshift ER unit established in a tent at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Dec. 23, 2020, in Colton, Calif.
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Over 2.56 million people in the Golden State have been diagnosed with COVID-19.

ABC News’ Matt Fuhrman contributed to this report.

Jan 08, 2021, 12:15 PM EST

US reported more cases than ever before during 1st week of 2021

In the first week of 2021, U.S. states and territories reported more cases than at any point in the pandemic so far, according to ABC News’ analysis of data compiled by the COVID Tracking Project.

Vehicles line up as people wait for COVID-19 tests at a drive-thru testing center in Phoenix, Dec. 8, 2020.
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Cases are on the rise in every region of the country. The CDC reports that New Jersey leads the nation with the highest average of daily cases per 100,000 people in the last seven days, followed Arizona, Rhode Island, Arkansas and California.

In New York, daily cases are nearly 50% higher than they were during the spring surge.

People commute to Manhattan on Staten Island Ferry amid the coronavirus pandemic, Jan. 4, 2021, in New York City.
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A stretcher is loaded back into an ambulance after EMTs dropped off a patient at a newly opened field hospital operated by Care New England to handle a surge of COVID-19 patients in Cranston, R.I., Dec. 1, 2020.
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The U.S. surpassed 132,000 patients in hospitals this week -- meaning more people were hospitalized than during the peak of the spring and summer surges combined.

Arizona, Nevada and Alabama currently hold the highest hospitalizations rates per million people in the country.

A registered nurse Lydia Mauney works in a COVID-19 unit at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, Calif., Dec. 21, 2020.
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Thursday marked the nation's deadliest day on record with 4,085 deaths, according to data collected by Johns Hopkins University.

Now, one in every 905 Americans has died from the virus.

In the last week, the seven-day average of daily deaths increased by 18.6%.

ABC News’ Arielle Mitropoulos contributed to this report.

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