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Dec 22, 2020 Congress voted Monday night to pass a $900 billion coronavirus relief package, the first new aid since April. The measure is part of a $2.3 trillion package that includes $1.4 trillion to fund the government. It’s one of the largest relief packages in U.S. history. The legislation includes $300-per-week federal unemployment assistance for 11 weeks; a round of $600 stimulus checks for people who earn up to $75,000, with another $600 per child; more money for schools and hospitals; and an extension of an eviction moratorium. It also includes $284 billion for another round of smal...

HeadlineDec 22, 2020 On Monday, the first doses of Moderna’s newly approved COVID-19 vaccine arrived at medical centers around the U.S. One of the very first to receive the Moderna vaccine was 44-year-old Arlene Ramirez, a nurse from Queens, New York, who became ill with COVID-19 in March and lost her father to the disease. Arlene Ramirez: “As a healthcare worker, seeing what we saw — people clinging on to life, death after death — having endured all at the same time — illness of my father-in-law, being severely ill myself, 36 days of my father being in the intensive care u...

(Photo : Eduardo Munoz-Pool/Getty Images) Arlene Ramirez, RN, director of patient care, receives the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Northwell Health's Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hospital on December 21, 2020 in Valley Stream, New York. A new virus strain was found in the U.K. and some social media posts claimed it was caused by the new COVID-19 vaccine, but is that really the case? Shortly after news of the new virus strain became known, Twitter started getting these claims about the COVID-19 vaccine as the root cause. In one tweet, the user said: "BREAKING. New vaccine last week, a new s...

December 22, 2020 SHOW TRANSCRIPT A second approved vaccine is now in the arms of some Americans.  "This vaccine is hope. It's hope that we will cease the pandemic, live a better life," said Arlene Ramiriez. "We shouldn't be afraid of the vaccine." That's Arlene Ramirez, a nurse in New York. She was one of the among the first to get Moderna's vaccine yesterday after it was approved by the FDA on Friday. And she is just one of many who will get the shot this week.  More health care workers will be getting their first doses today, with hospitals getting shipments from both Moderna and Pfizer.

Texas businesses in need of COVID-19 relief bill to help cover pandemic debt KTRK Share: HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The Texas Restaurant Association is asking congress for more COVID-19 relief as more than 10,000 restaurants in the state have shut down due to the pandemic, and many more are in jeopardy as they brace for tougher months. Michael Shine, owner of Frank's Americana Revival, said the restaurant's revenue is down more than 45% compared to last year. He said December is usually the make-or-break month for restaurant and retail stores. "We're blessed, but we're still down," Shine said...