Police and federal authorities are investigating after a Wisconsin health system said an employee admitted to deliberately spoiling 500 doses of coronavirus vaccine. Jamie Yuccas reports. Source

Skylar Hughes waited 16 hours to open her acceptance email and filmed her own reaction in an emotional video. Source

The FDA has recalled certain varieties of Sportmix pet food due to toxic levels of aflatoxin. Source

Sinopharm is one of at least five Chinese developers in a global race to create vaccines for the coronavirus. Source

About 100,000 Americans are on a waiting list to receive a kidney transplant. Source

The president was initially scheduled to return to Washington from Florida on Friday, but instead is returning on Thursday. Source

The U.S. recorded 3,744 COVID-19 deaths Wednesday, according to Johns Hopkins University, marking the highest one-day total. CBS News’ Debra Alfarone joined CBSN with the latest on the virus and efforts to fight it and its effects on the economy. Source

This New Year’s Eve is being celebrated like no other, with pandemic restrictions limiting crowds and many people bidding farewell to a year they’d prefer to forget. Source

A new, potentially more contagious variant of the coronavirus first reported in the U.K. has been discovered in California and Colorado. Dr. Stanley Perlman, a pediatric infectious diseases physician and professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Iowa, joins CBSN to answer key questions about this new virus strain. Source

The number of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. — more than 342,000 to close out 2020– is rapidly increasing. Only about 2.8 million people have received the first dose of the vaccine, far short of the government’s goal of 20 million people vaccinated by the end of the year, as the highly infectious U.K. variant is being reported in at least two states. Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease expert and senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, discusses with Jamie Yuccas on CBSN. Source