Pregnant doctor receives COVID-19 vaccine, urges others to as well
Baptist Health System, San Antonio, TexasBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (SAN ANTONIO) — Dr. Nayeli Rodulfo-Zayas, an emergency medicine physician in San Antonio, Texas, was 35 weeks pregnant when she received her second dose of the COVID-19
The inequities of PPP: Megachurches, large corporations receive money ahead of small businesses
ABC NewsBy ASHLEY SCHWARTZ-LAVARES, FAITH ABUBEY and HALEY YAMADA, ABC News (NEW YORK) — With the government set to issue a new round of business loans as part of its latest COVID-19 relief bill, struggling small businesses,
Coronavirus live updates: US reports over 137,000 new cases
narvikk/iStockBy MORGAN WINSOR and ERIN SCHUMAKER, ABC News (NEW YORK) — A pandemic of the novel coronavirus has now infected more than 95.6 million people worldwide and killed over two million of them, according to real-time data
Damaging winds and fire danger in California, wintry blast for East
ABC NewsBy MAX GOLEMBO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The National Weather Service is warning that winds 50 to 80 mph are expected for California Tuesday with extreme fire danger. The most dangerous winds and highest fire
Why lawmakers tested positive for COVID-19 after Capitol riot, despite vaccinations
uschools/iStockBy DR. ROSE MARIE LESLIE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Despite receiving one or two doses of a coronavirus vaccine, multiple members of Congress have tested positive for COVID-19 since the riot at the U.S. Capitol. While
WHO experts tweet from Wuhan quarantine ahead of much-anticipated mission into virus origins
dk_photos/iStockBy BRITT CLENNETT, ABC News (HONG KONG) — It’s a question that has generated year-long discord between China and the West: how did this virus that plunged the world into crisis begin in the first place? Last
Biden energy secretary nominee Jennifer Granholm has millions in energy investments
ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty ImagesBy SOO RIN KIM, ABC News (NEW YORK) — President-elect Joe Biden’s energy secretary pick, Jennifer Granholm, has disclosed millions of dollars of investments in corporate and private business interests, including millions in
How COVID-19 vaccinations are going, on a global scale
MarsBars/iStockBy ZOE MAGEE, ABC News (LONDON) — “The world is on the brink of a catastrophic moral failure,” World Health Organization Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Monday at the opening of the WHO’s annual executive board meeting.
Biden to pitch an eight-year pathway to citizenship in day one immigration reform bill
ABC NewsBy MOLLY NAGLE, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — President-elect Joe Biden will send to Congress an extensive immigration reform bill that includes an eight-year pathway to citizenship on Wednesday, following through on a long-standing campaign pledge to
POLL: 9 in 10 say pandemic not controlled; two-thirds intend to vaccinate
Ridofranz/iStockBy ALLISON DE JONG, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Nearly 9 in 10 Americans say the coronavirus pandemic is not under control in the United States, but far fewer say they’ll get vaccinated against it, a new