Headline Roundup December 29, 2020
Vaccine Distribution Continues, Alongside Concerns About Access
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Featured Coverage of this Story

HuffPost
President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday called out Donald Trump’s administration for bungling the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and laid out his own plans for quickly immunizing as many Americans as possible.
“The Trump administration’s plan to distribute the vaccine is falling behind ― far behind,” Biden said from Wilmington, Delaware.
“As I long feared and warned, the effort to distribute and administer the vaccine is not progressing as it should,” he said, adding that if the current pace continues, “it’s going to take years, not months, to vaccinate the American people.”
...
Several red states are eschewing federal recommendations for vaccine distribution and prioritizing the elderly and vulnerable over essential workers, in the hopes of saving more lives.
Texas, Florida, South Dakota, and Tennessee have decided to focus on groups that are the most at risk of death, including those with chronic conditions and elderly people who are 65 and up. That is a different distribution plan than the one recommended in mid-December by the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which said that certain essential workers and those age 75 and...

The Hill
Margaret Keenan, the first person outside of trial to receive Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, received her second dose on Tuesday, making her the first patient to be fully immunized against the coronavirus.
Sky News reports that Keenan received her second dose at Coventry's University Hospital, three weeks after her first dose was administered on Dec. 8.
Upon receiving her first dose of the vaccine earlier in December, Keenan told reporters that it was a “privilege” and “the best early birthday present I could wish for."
"We were delighted to welcome Margaret...
AllSides Picks
Blog
Media Bias Alert: DOJ Claims Biden Admin Weaponized Gov’t to ‘Chill Free Speech’ Despite Internal Dissent
Andy Gorel
October 8th, 2026
Red Blue Translator
Anti-vaxxer
Headline Roundup
Pollsters Face Obstacles as 2026 Midterms Approach
November 2nd, 2026
Blog
Villain or Hero? How the Left and Right Covered the Lone Holdout Juror in the Lindsay Clancy Trial
Jamie Krstev
November 3rd, 2026