diff --git a/.Rbuildignore b/.Rbuildignore
index 938e05a..c46ce7c 100644
--- a/.Rbuildignore
+++ b/.Rbuildignore
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@
 ^CRAN-RELEASE$
 ^development_test.R$
 ^\.github$
+^CRAN-SUBMISSION$
diff --git a/.github/.gitignore b/.github/.gitignore
index 2d19fc7..1d96d83 100644
--- a/.github/.gitignore
+++ b/.github/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 *.html
+cran-comments.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8de1d3f..d06d541 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,4 +3,4 @@
 .RData
 .Ruserdata
 to-do.md  
-CRAN-RELEASE
\ No newline at end of file
+cran-comments.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 3363496..dca0ad4 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: sovereign
 Title: State-Dependent Empirical Analysis 
-Version: 1.2.0
+Version: 1.2.1
 Authors@R: 
     person(given = "Tyler J.",
            family = "Pike",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 5c1a014..79f51c7 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Sovereign: State-Dependent Empirical Analysis  
 
+## Version 1.2.1
+(2021-12-30)
+- Bug fixes
+  - removed as.vector() call in solve_b.R
+  - change is.na to anyNA in regimes()
+
 ## Version 1.2.0 
 (2021-07-23)
 
diff --git a/R/covid_correction.R b/R/covid_correction.R
index ad51ab4..c1af898 100644
--- a/R/covid_correction.R
+++ b/R/covid_correction.R
@@ -147,7 +147,8 @@ covid_volatility_correction = function(
       N = N
     )
 
-  theta = as.vector(theta$par)
+  # theta = as.vector(theta$par)
+  theta = theta$par
 
   # correct data -------------------------------
 
diff --git a/R/regimes.R b/R/regimes.R
index a5c261e..a8a9bf4 100644
--- a/R/regimes.R
+++ b/R/regimes.R
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ regimes = function(
     breakpoints = strucchange::breakpoints(x ~ lag(x), data = X)
     breakpoints$breakpoints
 
-    if(is.na(breakpoints$breakpoints)){
+    if(anyNA(breakpoints$breakpoints)){
       regimes = data.frame(date = X.date, X, regime = 0)
     }else{
       regimes.val = c(0:length(breakpoints$breakpoints))
diff --git a/R/sovle_b.R b/R/sovle_b.R
index 0ac9276..9f234fb 100644
--- a/R/sovle_b.R
+++ b/R/sovle_b.R
@@ -85,8 +85,7 @@ solve_B = function(var, report_iv = TRUE){
         second_stage_beta = model.second_stage$coefficients[2]
         return(second_stage_beta)
 
-      }) %>%
-      as.vector()
+      })
 
     # scale size of the shock
     #  see Gertler and Karadi (2015) for background
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 46bae6f..b508a3d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 [![License: GPL v3](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-GPL%20v3-blue.svg)](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0)
 [![CRAN status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/sovereign)](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sovereign)
 [![Lifecycle: stable](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-stable-brightgreen.svg)](https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html)
-[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/tylerJPike/sovereign/branch/main/graph/badge.svg?token=WXLWR6H93B)](https://codecov.io/gh/tylerJPike/sovereign)
+[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/tylerJPike/sovereign/branch/main/graph/badge.svg?token=WXLWR6H93B)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/tylerJPike/sovereign)
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diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
index 53ca515..d2f8626 100644
--- a/index.md
+++ b/index.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 [![License: GPL v3](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-GPL%20v3-blue.svg)](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0)
 [![CRAN status](https://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/sovereign)](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=sovereign)
 [![Lifecycle: stable](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-stable-brightgreen.svg)](https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html)
-[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/tylerJPike/sovereign/branch/main/graph/badge.svg?token=WXLWR6H93B)](https://codecov.io/gh/tylerJPike/sovereign)
+[![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/tylerJPike/sovereign/branch/main/graph/badge.svg?token=WXLWR6H93B)](https://app.codecov.io/gh/tylerJPike/sovereign)
 [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/tylerJPike/sovereign.svg?branch=main)](https://travis-ci.org/tylerJPike/sovereign)  
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