Ashley Lopez
Ashley Lopez is a reporter forWGCUNews. A native of Miami, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a journalism degree.
Previously, Lopez was a reporter for Miami's NPR member station, WLRN-MiamiHerald News. Before that, she was a reporter at The Florida Independent. She also interned for Talking Points Memo in New York City andWUNCin Durham, North Carolina. She also freelances as a reporter/blogger for the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting.
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The new online portal will help the state identify where there are clusters of people who want to get vaccinated. -
This is only the second time Texas has received more than 1 million doses in one week from the federal government.
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A national group monitoring violence and discrimination against Asian American and Pacific Islander communities has logged almost 4,000 incidents during the pandemic. Six of the eight people killed in the Atlanta area Tuesday were of Asian descent, raising suspicions of a hate crime.
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A Texas judge raised concerns about the state's motives but ultimately said the federal courts should deal with the matter.
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St. David’s South Austin Medical Center is sending some patients home and transferring others. Seton hospitals are also having water issues.
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Local health officials have also had to cancel vaccination appointments because of the extreme weather.
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Freestanding emergency rooms in Texas have been charging insurance plans thousands of dollars for a single COVID test. Advocates say that will drive up the cost of health care, and they want state lawmakers to step in.
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Affiliates filed an emergency lawsuit in an effort to stop the state from blocking 8,000 low-income Texans on Medicaid from receiving care at the health clinics. The state's effort to block them from the program was set to go effect Thursday.
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Dell Med researchers are looking into whether empathy can be a medical intervention for the health effects of isolation.
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During the pandemic, racial minorities have been disproportionately affected by the virus and now face new issues as the COVID-19 vaccine is distributed.
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Planned Parenthood officials say patients will have a hard time finding new providers in a short window of time during a pandemic.
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Medical professionals conducting millions of COVID-19 tests in the U.S. face an overwhelming workload even as the first round of vaccinations are administered.
