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December 21, 2020 6:11 AM By Brandon Lee and Alex Ruoff A fix for unexpected medical bills will advance as part of a year-end spending package after key lawmakers reached agreement on how to address the issue earlier this month. The text of the $1.4 trillion omnibus spending measure and $900 coronavirus stimulus package hasn’t been released yet. The House and Senate plan to vote on the measure today. Both chambers passed, and President Donald Trump signed, a single-day stopgap measure last night keeping the government open through midnight. The legislation is based on a deal ...

Subject:* A friend wanted you to see this item from WRAL.com: https://wr.al/1JZ2Z Officials with the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Defense provide an update on coronavirus vaccine distribution. Show Transcript viruses spread in many parts of the country, thanks to the Operation warp speed rollout of vaccines. As General Purna has been saying, we're now on offense against the virus the vaccines were distributing are going to save lives. This week we have allocated MAWR doses of the Pfizer vaccine approximately two million more doses for states and other jurisdictions to ord...

Federal officials provide an update on the Operation Warp Speed. Show Transcript Well, I wanted to ask about this. Um, the reduction. Why did it take from Wednesday until Friday night for clarity to come as to why the numbers were based on vaccine that hadn't gone through the full process yet. So it didn't It didn't take that long. We realized, quite frankly, the next day, because governors and their staffs were alert on calling us. And so what we have to do is do some forensics On what the disconnection waas. So in simple terms, we allocated vaccines on Tuesday night. That was a change. We o...

December 15, 2020 6:13 AM By Brandon Lee The first coronavirus vaccines were administered by hospitals in the U.S. yesterday, the initial step in a historic drive to vaccinate millions of people this week. In Queens, N.Y., critical-care nurse Sandra Lindsay received the first shot in the state at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. In Charlotte, N.C., that was Katie Passaretti, medical director of infection prevention at Atrium Health. And in Fargo, N.D., Melanie Allen, a clinical-care leader at Sanford Broadway Medical Center, got her shot. “This is just good old-fashioned sc...

First hiccups seen in U.S. effort to deliver COVID-19 vaccine Four delivery trays of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine were pulled back from delivery to California and Alabama this week and sent back to the company because they were colder than anticipated. By John Tozzi, Angelica LaVito and Jacquie LeeBloomberg Share Tami Jeffries, R.N., prepares the first locally-available dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Va. on Tuesday, Dec. 15. Mike Morones/The Free Lance-Star via AP The first hiccups in the distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine in the ...