Funeral home transporter Reggie Elliott takes a break after bringing the remains of a Covid-19 victim to his van from the hospital's morgue in Baltimore, Maryland on December 24, 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. - The United States surpassed 18 million reported Covid-19 cases on Monday, figures from Johns Hopkins University showed, as the virus surges nationwide. When it comes to vaccination priority, long-term care residents and health workers are at the front of the line. Maryland crematorium owner Dorota Marshall hopes that her workers going to do pickups and regularly entering hospitals, hospices, nursing homes and residences, get the vaccine in the next round. Marshall says "We visit homes where people recently died from Covid or family members are positive, so absolutely I think we are front line workers." (Photo by Andrew CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP)