The White House COVID-19 Response Team and public health officials will provide an update on the pandemic during a briefing on Tuesday afternoon.

(Update: The briefing is over. Please check back for more livestreams on KSAT.com). COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients will hold a press briefing to give operational updates on the federal government’s COVID-19 pandemic response.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the White House, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021, in Washington. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki will hold a briefing Thursday. The briefing is expected to begin at 1:30 p.m., but delays are possible. Psaki’s briefing comes on the heels of President Joe Biden signing an executive order reopening the HealthCare.gov insurance markets, something the Trump administration refused to do. Biden will also move to start reversing other Trump administration policies, including curbs on abortion counseling and work requirements for low-income people getting Medicaid.

(Update: The briefing has ended. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki will hold a briefing Monday. The briefing is expected to begin at noon, but delays are possible. It immediately prohibits any service member from being forced out of the military on the basis of gender identity. Biden’s order says that gender identity should not be a bar to military service.

Click here to read the latest on the COVID-19 vaccine.) Senior officials with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense will hold a briefing on Operation Warp Speed and the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday. While that is believed to an undercount because of a lag in reporting, it is well behind where health officials wanted to be. The Texas Department of State Health Services has reported 13,300 patients in hospitals due to the virus, which is a new record. Meanwhile, the COVID-19 vaccines are prioritized for health care workers and nursing home residents for the most part in the U.S.

A droplet falls from a syringe after a health care worker was injected with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Women & Infants Hospital in Providence, R.I., Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Click here for the latest on the COVID-19 vaccine.) Federal officials will hold a briefing on Operation Warp Speed Monday morning, a day after a second COVID-19 vaccine, this one from Moderna Inc., began shipping. The vaccination program that began last week has already inoculated 556,000 Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer Inc. and Germany’s BioNTech already is being distributed.

WASHINGTON – The Department of Defense is giving a briefing on the COVID-19 vaccination effort Friday morning. The press conference will take place at 9 a.m. from the Pentagon. The briefing will be placed in this article, but delays are possible. The Pentagon will receive just less than 44,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine initially. The vaccinations will be voluntary, The Associated Press said.

Nurse Melissa Valentin shows a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to be applied to medical personnel at the Ashford Presbyterian Community Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Click here for more stories about the COVID-19 vaccine.) The Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Defense are expected to hold a briefing on Operation Warp Speed and the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. Packed in dry ice, shipments of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine began arriving Tuesday at more than 400 additional hospitals and other distribution sites. The first 3 million shots are being strictly rationed to front-line health workers and nursing home patients, with hundreds of millions more shots needed over the coming months to protect most Americans.

WASHINGTON D.C. – Federal officials on Wednesday are expected to hold a briefing on Operation Warp Speed, an initiative from the Trump Administration to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 as it continues to resurge in the U.S. The briefing will include Army Gen. Gustave F. Perna, chief operations officer for Operation Warp Speed; Health and Human Services Secretary Alex M. Azar II; and Dr. Moncef Slaoui, chief advisor for Operation Warp Speed. The briefing is scheduled to begin at 11:45 a.m. and it will be livestreamed in this article. Pfizer and BioNTech had initially estimated the vaccine was more than 90% effective after 94 infections had been counted in a study that included 44,000 people. The companies have not yet released detailed data on their study, and results have not been analyzed by independent experts.

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey President Donald Trump is holding a press briefing Saturday afternoon at his property Bedminster, New Jersey. The briefing will be livestreamed in the video player above. Well bring more updates to this story as they become available.

SAN ANTONIO – During the latest coronavirus news update from San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, the following things were discussed:Watch the entire briefing in the video player above. Watch daily briefings by clicking here: San Antonio Mayor and Bexar County Judge give live, daily updates at 6:10 p.m.COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new virus, stands for coronavirus disease 2019. The disease first appeared in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, but spread around the world in early 2020, causing the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic in March. MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE FROM KSAT:

SAN ANTONIO – During the latest coronavirus news update from San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg and Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff, the following things were discussed:Watch the entire briefing in the video player above. Watch daily briefings by clicking here: San Antonio Mayor and Bexar County Judge give live, daily updates at 6:10 p.m.COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new virus, stands for coronavirus disease 2019. The disease first appeared in late 2019 in Wuhan, China, but spread around the world in early 2020, causing the World Health Organization to declare a pandemic in March. MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE FROM KSAT: