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Asylum seekers at US-Mexico border see hope in Biden administration immigration changes Lauren Villagran, El Paso Times Migrants react to Biden halting border wall Replay Video UP NEXT EL PASO, Texas — Hope among asylum seekers bloomed in Mexican border cities Thursday after President Joe Biden's administration halted the controversial "Remain in Mexico" program and said it would review asylum policies. "The truth is that they are now filled with hope," said Miguel Gonzalez, who runs the Pasos de Fe shelter in Juárez, Mexico, where migrant families enrolled in the prog...

A Mexican man who was shot in the back while protecting his wife and daughter during the Walmart mass shooting is finally home. Mario De Alba — who was the last hospitalized survivor of the Aug. 3, 2019, attack — spent six months in El Paso hospitals before being released in February. He returned to Chihuahua City with his family only to relapse and be hospitalized again 10 days later. This summer came a final surgery, his sister Cristina De Alba said. “The doctors told us, ‘We guarantee that with this surgery you are going to leave here walking and eating,” she said. “They did ...

“Historically with a vaccine, the terrible (serious adverse events) that we’re always worried about actually present themselves in a matter of weeks,” Djavaherian, an ER doctor who leads the pandemic response at Carbon Health, a national primary and urgent care provider. “We’re not seeing that type of spike ... in the weeks we see people taking the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine.” Experts say Americans should feel confident in the vaccines now based on the data. The U.S Food and Drug Administration released a 53-page evaluation that confirmed the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is highly effe...

Long-term care industry leaders hopeful as COVID-19 vaccinations get underway Long-term care residents and staff will be among the first to receive the vaccination. The long-term care community has been especially hard hit by the pandemic. Author: Alex Rozier (WFAA) Updated: 1:50 PM CST December 14, 2020 As the COVID-19 vaccine arrives in America, leaders in long-term care are hopeful it will help their communities hit hard by the pandemic. Long-term care residents and staff will be among the first to receive the vaccination. Cheryl Harding is the president and...

USA TODAY As the USA approaches the once-unthinkable threshold of 300,000 COVID-19 deaths Sunday, experts fear the country is hurtling nonstop toward the next milestone of surpassing the total of American fatalities in World War II – even as vaccines are on the way. A weeks-long surge in coronavirus transmission, leading to an average of more than 210,000 new infections and nearly 2,500 deaths a day this month, has public health experts considering the next major round number practically inevitable. According to Johns Hopkins University data, the USA had recorded more than 299,000 coronavi...