PeopleImages/iStockBy LAURA ROMERO, ABC News (NEW YORK) — In recent months Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center in San Diego’s South Bay has been near capacity with coronavirus cases. Located 11 miles from the Mexican border and serving a primarily Latino Read More
ProArtWork/iStockBy DR. DAVE HARRISON and SONY SALZMAN, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Pfizer, the multinational pharmaceutical company, may be the first in the United States to seek regulatory approval for a COVID-19 vaccine, but even if its vaccine is authorized, the Read More
Meyer & Meyer/iStockBy ARIELLE MITROPOULOS, ABC News (NEW YORK) — There is much uneasiness and many questions about a potential COVID-19 vaccine, among them the unprecedented speed of its development and worries about a rushed approval in a highly politicized Read More
GirlTrekBy KATIE KINDELAN, ABC News (NEW YORK) — The stakes for the 2020 election are high for everyone, but particularly for Black women. The election on Nov. 3 comes as Black women have been hit disproportionately hard by the coronavirus pandemic, both in cases Read More
mediaphotos/iStockBy KATIE KINDELAN and ANGELINE JANE BERNABE, ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — The coronavirus pandemic has already changed how Halloween will be celebrated in at least one American county. In Los Angeles County, public health officials on Wednesday said Read More
iStock/ipopbaBY: DR. LEAH CROLL, ABC News (WASHINGTON) — AstraZeneca has temporarily put the brakes on its late-stage, global COVID-19 vaccine trial after a participant came down with what experts call an “adverse event.” “Whilst it has been Read More
iStock/mandy_hartBY: KELLY MCCARTHY (NEW YORK) — After months of calling on lawmakers to provide a plan for indoor dining in New York City, restaurant owners finally received good news on Wednesday when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced they could welcome diners Read More
narvikk/iStockBy DR. ALEXIS E. CARRINGTON and DR. JAY BHATT, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Lisa Fitzgerald and her husband Chip came down with COVID-19 at around the same time. Both experienced those telltale symptoms like shortness of breath and fatigue, and both tested Read More
ABC NewsBy LAURA ZACCARO, DOUG VOLLMAYER and ANGELINE JANE BERNABE, ABC News (NEW YORK) — Like many children his age, Bowen Hammitt loves to bike and loves superheroes. But unlike most, Bowen has gone through so much in his life to survive. Bowen was born in 2010 Read More
MarianVejcik/iStockBy MATTHEW MOSK, ABC News (NEW YORK) — As medical researchers sprint to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, there is a new race underway — for a spot at the front of the line to be inoculated amid what will likely be a gradual Read More
