Dec 21, 2020

Where money from the COVID relief agreement will flow

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill on Dec. 20, 2020. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

A closer look at the components of a package agreed upon by Republicans and Democrats last night, including relief checks, unemployment benefits and aid for small businesses. And, the need for dry ice when it comes to storing and shipping coronavirus vaccine doses.

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COVID-19

What's included in Congress' $900 billion COVID relief bill?

by David Brancaccio , Nancy Marshall-Genzer , Nova Safo , Rose Conlon , Meredith Garretson , Erika Soderstrom and Alex Schroeder

Dec 21, 2020

The headline items are $600 checks to individuals and an additional $300 per week in unemployment benefits for many.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Capitol Hill on Dec. 20, 2020.

Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

Fast-Track Vaccines

As ultra-cold Pfizer vaccines ship out, dry ice supplies tighten in Northeast

by Scott Tong

Dec 21, 2020

The question is whether there’s enough dry ice to store and transport vaccine to neighborhoods and remote places.

A worker pours dry ice into boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as they are prepared to be shipped in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on Dec. 13, 2020.

Morry Gash/AFP via Getty Images

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