The Latest: Tennessee probe finds wasted vaccines

By The Associated Press
Feb 23, 2021
Feb 23, 2021 Updated Feb 23, 2021
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The Latest: Tennessee probe finds wasted vaccines

The owner of a closed restaurant has placed plush panda bears at the tables in central Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, as Germany is still in a partiallockdown.

Michael Probst

The Latest: States to get 14.5M doses of vaccine this week

People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus ride an escalator at an office and shopping complex in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. China has been regularly reporting no locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 as it works to maintain control of the pandemic within its borders.

Mark Schiefelbein

Newsom pledges more vaccines for Central Valley farmworkers

Californian Governor Gavin Newsom talks during a visit to Arvin Veterans Hall in Arvin, Calif. in Kern County on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021, to highlight the state's efforts to administer COVID-19 vaccines quickly and equitably across California. Newsom said more vaccines are headed to California's vast Central Valley, an agricultural region that has been hard hit by the coronavirus.

Alex Horvath

US tops 500,000 virus deaths, matching the toll of 3 wars

FILE - In this July 6, 2020, file photo, blanket is pulled to cover the body of a patient after medical personnel were unable to to save her life inside the coronavirus unit at United Memorial Medical Center in Houston. The U.S. death toll from COVID-19 has topped 500,000 — a number so staggering that a top health researchers says it is hard to imagine an American who hasn't lost a relative or doesn't know someone who died.

David J. Phillip

People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk across a street in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. China has been regularly reporting no locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 as it works to maintain control of the pandemic within its borders.

Mark Schiefelbein

Not to be sniffed at: Agony of post-COVID-19 loss of smell

Dr. Clair Vandersteen, right, wafts a tube of odors under the nose of a patient, Gabriella Forgione, during tests in a hospital in Nice, southern France, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, to help determine why she has been unable to smell or taste since she contracted COVID-19 in November 2020. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, doctors and researchers are still striving to better understand and treat the accompanying epidemic of COVID-19-related anosmia — loss of smell — draining much of the joy of life from an increasing number of sensorially frustrated longer-term sufferers like Forgione.

John Leicester

The hand of Dr. Clair Vandersteen wafts a tube of odors under the nose of a blindfolded patient, Gabriella Forgione, during tests in a hospital in Nice, southern France, Monday, Feb. 8, 2021, to help determine why she has been unable to smell or taste since she contracted COVID-19 in November 2020. A year into the coronavirus pandemic, doctors and researchers are still striving to better understand and treat the accompanying epidemic of COVID-19-related anosmia — loss of smell — draining much of the joy of life from an increasing number of sensorially frustrated longer-term sufferers like Forgione.

John Leicester

A Cathay Pacific pilot receives China's Sinovac COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a community vaccination centre in Hong Kong Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Frontline workers and high risk people are the first in line to be vaccinated in the territory.

Peter Parks

A health worker takes a nasal swab sample at a COVID-19 testing center in Hyderabad, India, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Cases of COVID-19 are increasing in some parts of India after months of a steady nationwide decline, prompting authorities to impose lockdowns and other virus restrictions.

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The Latest: Afghanistan begins vaccination drive

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a ceremony of India's AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccination at the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Afghanistan has started its first implementation of the COVID-19 vaccine during a ceremony at the palace.

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An Afghan security personnel, left, receives Indian's AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine from health officials at the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Afghanistan has started its first implementation of the COVID-19 vaccine during a ceremony at the Afghan presidential palace.

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Drug executives: Big jump in vaccine supply is coming soon

FILE - In this Feb. 12, 2021, file photo, scripps health official draws from a vile of the COVID-19 vaccine prior to administering it at their new drive-thru vaccination site at the Del Mar Fairgrounds in Del Mar, Calif. Executives from the major COVID-19 vaccine producers are set Tuesday, Feb. 23, to answer questions from Congress about expanding the supply of shots needed to curb the pandemic that has killed more than 500,000 Americans.

Nelvin C. Cepeda

A sign is pasted into an upper window at Pfizer manufacturing center in Puurs, Belgium, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Two U.K. studies released Monday showed that COVID-19 vaccination programs are contributing to a sharp drop in hospitalizations, boosting hopes that the shots will work as well in the real world as they have in carefully controlled studies.

Virginia Mayo

Palestinians line up to receive coronavirus vaccinations from an Israeli medical team at the Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. While moving aggressively to vaccinate its adult population, including Arab citizens, Israel has not shared significant quantities of vaccines with the Palestinians in the West Bank. Tuesday's vaccinations were offered to Palestinians who have Israeli residency rights but live in the West Bank.

Oded Balilty

Israeli medical teams administer the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Palestinians at the Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. While moving aggressively to vaccinate its adult population, including Arab citizens, Israel has not shared significant quantities of vaccines with the Palestinians in the West Bank. Tuesday's vaccinations were offered to Palestinians who have Israeli residency rights but live in the West Bank.

Oded Balilty

The Latest: Kansas businesses not to repay COVID loans

A member of the Italian Army is administered a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 at a vaccination center set up at the military barracks of Cecchignola, in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2020.

Cecilia Fabiano

The Latest: Hungary urges citizens to get vaccine from China

A Danish police officer guards a closed border crossing near Handewitt, Germany, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021. Denmark has closed several smaller border crossings to Germany because of the coronavirus situation in the region near the city of Flensburg.

Frank Molter

A sign shows the way to the vaccination center in central Frankfurt, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, as Germany is still in a partiallockdown.

Michael Probst

A child wearing a protective mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus runs in front of the logos of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Tokyo. Japan began to roll out coronavirus vaccines on Wednesday, a critical move that might boost the Olympics.

Eugene Hoshiko

A man blows a horn at a rally of policemen and retired members of the military in Bucharest, Romania, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Hundreds of Romanian policemen have marched in protest of planned austerity measures that envisage freezing of salaries in the public sector.

Alexandru Dobre

A box containing COVID-19 vaccines developed by the Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm is inspected upon its delivery at a Hungarian pharmaceutical wholesaler in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. A shipment of COVID-19 vaccines produced in China arrived in Hungary on Tuesday, making it the first of the European Union's 27 nations to receive a Chinese vaccine.

Marton Monus

Doctors and nurses wait to receive China's Sinovac COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a community vaccination centre in Hong Kong Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. Frontline workers and high risk people are the first in line to be vaccinated in the territory.

Peter Parks

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson centre, looks on in the gym, which is being used as a makeshift coronavirus testing centre for students, during a visit to Sedgehill School in Lewisham, south east London, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, to see preparations for students returning to school. Johnson has announced a gradual easing of one of Europe’s strictest lockdowns on, saying children will return to class and people will be able to meet a friend for coffee in a park in two weeks’ time. But people longing for a haircut, a restaurant meal or a pint in a pub have almost two months to wait, and people won’t be able to hug loved ones that they don’t live with until May at the earliest.

Jack Hill

A health worker holds up a dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine against COVID-19 to be administered to members of the Italian Army at a vaccination center set up at the military barracks of Cecchignola, in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2020.

Cecilia Fabiano

A vial of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine is held at a vaccination site Friday, Feb. 19, 2021, in Oklahoma City.

Sue Ogrocki

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Washington.

Evan Vucci

California governor signs $7.6 billion stimulus package

FILE - In this Feb. 21, 2021, file photo, California Gov. Gavin Newsom takes questions from the media during a visit to a mobile vaccination site at Ramona Gardens Recreation Center in Los Angeles. Newsom signed a $7.6 billion coronavirus relief package on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, that will give at least $600 one-time payments to 5.7 million people while setting aside more than $2 billion in grants for struggling small businesses.

Damian Dovarganes

Heavy fog covers the landscape near around the Castle of Salgo near Salgotarjan, Hungary, Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021.

Peter Komka

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, front left, greets resident Israel Ortiz, right, after Newsom visited a mobile vaccination site at Ramona Gardens Recreation Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. California's new system of delivering and scheduling coronavirus vaccines is being rolled out in select counties.

Damian Dovarganes

People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus look at Kawazu cherry blossoms near the Tokyo Skytree, the tallest structure in Japan, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Tokyo. The Japanese capital confirmed more than 270 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday.

Eugene Hoshiko

A woman wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of the coronavirus looks at cherry blossoms in Tokyo, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021.

Koji Sasahara

A woman wearing a face mask as a precaution against the coronavirus, walks near national flags hanging on trees ahead of the 102nd anniversary of the March First Independence Movement Day, in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021.

Lee Jin-man

People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk past a display in the window of a commercial space in Beijing, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021. China has been regularly reporting no locally transmitted cases of COVID-19 as it works to maintain control of the pandemic within its borders.

Mark Schiefelbein

Medical staff shows the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against the COVID-19 disease inside a bus, containing a so-called rolling vaccination center, during a test run in Grosshartmannsdorf, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. Mobile vaccination centers will be used to vaccinate people against the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease in three municipalities of German federal state Saxony.

Robert Michael

A woman holds a packet containing vials of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm at a Hungarian pharmaceutical wholesaler in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021. A shipment of COVID-19 vaccines produced in China arrived in Hungary on Tuesday, making it the first of the European Union's 27 nations to receive a Chinese vaccine.

Marton Monus

President Joe Biden speaks during a virtual roundtable with Black essential workers hosted by Domestic Policy Council director Susan Rice, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, in Washington.

Evan Vucci

Stickers given to people getting vaccinated for COVID-19 are shown Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2021, at the VA Puget Sound Health Care System campus in Seattle.

Ted S. Warren

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — More than 2,400 doses of COVID-19 vaccines in Tennessee’s most populous county went to waste over the past month while local officials sat on tens of thousands of shots that they thought had already gone into arms, the state’s top health official announced Tuesday.