U.S. health officials hope new COVID vaccine rules can ease latest surge


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  • Wednesday, 13 Jan 2021

Firefighter Jenkins from Pasadena Fire Department administers a dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Pasadena, California, U.S., January 12, 2021. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni

(Reuters) - The Trump administration moved on Tuesday to accelerate vaccinations of Americans against COVID-19, releasing the rest of the doses it had been keeping in reserve and recommending states immediately open inoculations to those aged 65 and over.

Federal and state health officials have scrambled in recent days to step up vaccination programs that had given shots to only 9.3 million Americans as coronavirus infections remain at record highs in many U.S. states nearly two weeks into the new year.

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