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FILE - This October 2020 photo provided by Pfizer shows part of a "freezer farm," a football field-sized facility for storing finished COVID-19 vaccines, in Puurs, Belgium. Makers of COVID-19 vaccines need everything to go right as they scale up from early-stage production to hundreds of millions of doses – and any little hiccup could cause a delay. (Pfizer via AP)
EXPLAINER: Why it's hard to make vaccines and boost supplies

By Lauran Neergaard Jan. 28, 2021 01:02 AM EST

FILE - In this Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, file photo, a Walgreens pharmacist prepares a syringe with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for residents and staff at the The Palace assisted living facility in Coral Gables, Fla. Scientists are reporting troubling signs that some recent mutations of the virus that causes COVID-19 may modestly curb the effectiveness of current vaccines but stress that the shots still remain protective. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
Some COVID-19 mutations may dampen vaccine effectiveness

By Marilynn Marchione Jan. 20, 2021 05:56 PM EST

FILE - In this Jan. 5, 2021, file photo, a healthcare worker receives a second Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot in Southfield, Mich. On Friday, Jan. 8, 2021, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly asserting that COVID-19 vaccines that rely on messenger RNA technology will teach the body to attack itself, leading to autoimmune disease. The mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 contain a genetic code that trains the immune system to recognize the spike protein on the surface of the virus to generate an immune response and fight it. A lack of understanding around how mRNA vaccines work has led to a flurry of misinformation around the vaccines. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

By The Associated Press Jan. 08, 2021 04:42 PM EST

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2020 file photo, blood samples from volunteers participating in the last-stage testing of the COVID-19 vaccine by Moderna and the National Institutes wait to be processed in a lab at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami. Creating vaccines and properly testing them less than a year after the world discovered a never-before-seen disease is incredible. But the two U.S. frontrunners are made in a way that promises speedier development may become the norm -- especially if they prove to work long-term as well as they have in early testing. (AP Photo/Taimy Alvarez, File)
Years of research laid groundwork for speedy COVID-19 shots

By Lauran Neergaard Dec. 07, 2020 10:54 AM EST

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 24, 2020 file photo, a volunteer receives a COVID-19 test vaccine injection developed at the University of Oxford in Britain, at the Chris Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. People on six continents are testing experimental shots as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer, with even bigger studies poised to prove if any leading candidate really works - and possibly offer the public a reality check. (AP Photo/Siphiwe Sibeko)
Summer may decide fate of leading shots in vaccine race

By Lauran Neergaard Jun. 28, 2020 08:28 AM EDT

Medical personnel conduct coronavirus testing at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, Kan., Tuesday, May 12, 2020. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Kansas sausage making plant shuts down amid COVID-19 cases

By John Hanna And Heather Hollingsworth May. 13, 2020 12:57 PM EDT

In this screen grab image taken on Friday, May 1, 2020, Dr. Drew Miller, discusses the coronavirus pandemic and his southwest Kansas community at his medical office in Lakin, Kan., during a Zoom interview with an Associated Press reporter. Miller says he's pleased that Gov. Laura Kelly is being conservative in reopening the state's economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/John Hanna)
Coronavirus outbreak prompts Kansas to stop prison releases

By John Hanna And Heather Hollingsworth May. 01, 2020 12:46 PM EDT

A Douglas County Sheriff officer drives through the parking lot at Heritage Baptist Church near Lawrence, Kan., Sunday, April 19, 2020. A federal judge has blocked Kansas from limiting attendance at in-person religious worship services or activities to 10 or fewer congregation members to check the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
Kansas gets COVID-19 testing kits for meat processing towns

By John Hanna And Heather Hollingsworth Apr. 20, 2020 12:06 PM EDT

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JUDGE SAYS R KELLY MUST REMAIN BEHIND BARS NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has denied singer R Kelly's request to be released from jail...

FILE - This Jan. 18, 2019 file photo shows Drew Pinsky speaking at the 2019 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards in Burbank, Calif. Pinsky has apologized for a series of statements unspooled in a recent video where he downplayed the coronavirus and suggested that it was a “press-induced panic.” (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
Caught in video mashup, Pinsky apologizes for virus comments

By David Bauder Apr. 06, 2020 06:00 PM EDT