►A Tyson Foods manager fired for betting on how many workers would contract COVID-19 at an Iowa pork plant said the office pool was intended to boost morale. Don Merschbrock, former night manager, said seven fired supervisors are not "evil people” Tyson has portrayed. Families of four workers who died are suing the company.
►The U.S. won't come close to vaccinating 20 million people by Jan. 1, as many experts had forecast, but Dr. Anthony Fauci believes "an increase in momentum" next month will help the nation draw closer to rollout estimates. But Fauci, in an interview on CNN, said a likely holiday surge means "we just have to assume (the pandemic) is going to get worse."