members of congress and child tax credits. and call it a presidential booster shot. all four living presidents, except for drunk, just out with a new psa encouraging vaccinations. this vaccine means hope. i am getting vaccinates because we want this pandemic to end as soon as possible. we are all doing our part. this is our shot. our reporters are spread out for our special coverage of covid one year later. i am hallie jackson. monica alba is outside the white house. gabe gutierrez is in new york and dr. john torres. we have many reporters we want to get to for our special coverage. monica, let me start with you and what we expect to hear from president biden tonight, a day before he signs the coronavirus bill into law. reporter: the president is going to acknowledge everything that this country has been through over the last year, while also trying to talk about and hint at the hope that on the horizon, more vaccine become available, we will talk about his americ
Older and the initial two doses for children under 5. a new $15 billion covid aid package is currently stalled in congress. trace: a new study finds people who recovered from covid within the past year are 40% more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes as compared to those who were never infected with the virus. let s bring in dr. marc siegel, professor of medicine at nyu langone medical center. 40% is a huge number increase in diabetes for those who had covid. what s the caveat here? this is a huge study. a veterans study looking from march of 2020 to september 2021. they looked at 180,000 people who had covid and they compared them to over 4 million people who didn t and found there is, as you said, 46% increase of diabetes in that group. that s called an association,
Given tight political margins, lawmakers are using the budget reconciliation process to advance President Biden s $2 trillion dollar COVID aid package.