By Jessie Yeung, Adam Renton, Emma Reynolds and Ed Upright, CNN
From CNN's Joe Sutton
The United States reported 157,901 new coronavirus cases and 1,172 virus-related deaths on Monday, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
That brings the country's total to at least 13,541,221 cases and 268,045 deaths.
The totals include cases from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and other US territories, as well as repatriated cases.
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From CNN Health’s Lauren Mascarenhas
After many Americans traveled and gathered with people living outside of their households for Thanksgiving, Dr. Anthony Fauci urged people to do things differently over the rest of the holiday season.
“I actually think that we need to, this time, do things a little bit differently,” Fauci told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Monday.
Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, acknowledged that it will be difficult for people to stay apart over the holidays.
“That seems to be unfortunately … the antithesis of the Christmas, the New Year, the Hanukkah season, because you really want to bring friends, the warmth, the fireplace, the people sitting down together,” he said. “Unfortunately, that's the perfect setup for people who may have no symptoms and innocently and inadvertently come into the home and infect someone.”
Fauci said that people should consider whether they have friends and family who are susceptible to the virus.
“If you do, do you really want to take the chance of exposing that person to something that might not allow them to have future Christmases and New Years and Hanukkahs?” he asked.
From CNN’s Jake Kwon in Seoul
South Korea reported 451 coronavirus cases on Tuesday, the nation’s Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KDCA) announced.
Of those, 420 are locally transmitted infections and 31 imported -- and 255 of the cases were detected in the Seoul metropolitan area, the KDCA said.
The new cases bring the national tally to 34,652 coronavirus cases.
No additional deaths were reported, meaning the country's death toll remains at 526.
From CNN Health’s Lauren Mascarenhas
People who receive a coronavirus vaccine should expect “low grade” side effects, Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday.
“When you get an injection of the vaccine, you induce a response. In some people, they don't feel anything,” the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Monday.
“Others feel an ache in the arm. Some may feel an ache in the arm and kind of a little chilly feeling, almost like you have a flu-like syndrome, and in a minority of people that get a fever. They'll actually get a fever for a day.”
“Almost all of this goes away within 24 or at the most, 48 hours,” he added.
It’s important to be honest with people about the side effects they may experience, said Fauci.
“What the body is telling you by that response is that it's responding well to the injection,” he said.
From CNN Health’s Ben Tinker
A record 96,039 people in the United States are currently hospitalized with Covid-19, according to data published Monday evening by The COVID Tracking Project.
This is the third straight day of new record numbers, following a slight dip reported on Friday.
The states with the most people currently hospitalized with Covid-19 are Texas, California, Illinois, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
From CNN's Kaitlan Collins, Jim Acosta and Devan Cole
Dr. Scott Atlas, a highly controversial member of the White House's coronavirus task force, has resigned from his post in the Trump administration, according to a person who works with the task force.
A source familiar with what happened told CNN that Atlas turned in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump on Monday. As a special government employee, Atlas had a 130-day window in which he could serve and that window was technically going to close this week.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Another source close to the task force told CNN on Monday that Atlas' departure comes as welcome news, as his discredited theories will no longer have a seat at the table.
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From CNNs Ben Tinker
Asked about his expectations regarding how many Americans will be vaccinated against Covid-19 by June, Lt. Gen. Paul Ostrowski, director of supply, production and distribution for Operation Warp Speed, said, “A hundred percent of Americans that want the vaccine will have had the vaccine by that point in time.”
“We will have over 300 million doses available to the American public well before then,” Ostrowski told MSNBC’s Yasmin Vossoughian on MSNBC Monday afternoon.
About the vaccines: Pharmaceutical company Moderna intends to apply Monday to the US Food and Drug Administration for authorization of its Covid-19 vaccine.
Moderna will become the second company to apply to the FDA for emergency use authorization for a coronavirus vaccine. Pfizer applied on Nov. 20 with data showing similarly high efficacy.
The FDA is scheduled to meet with its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee on Dec. 10 to review Pfizer's application and on Dec. 17 to review Moderna's application.
From CNN's Andrea Diaz
Distribution of Covid-19 vaccines could begin within weeks, pending authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration, US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said.
“We could be seeing both of these vaccines out and getting into people's arms before Christmas,” Azar said during an interview with “CBS This Morning” on Monday.
An FDA advisory committee is scheduled to discuss Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine on Dec. 10.
“We could be looking at approval within days after that," Azar said.
Pfizer applied to the FDA for emergency use authorization earlier this month and Moderna applied on Monday. The FDA committee is expected to consider Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine on Dec. 17.
