VIRUS TODAY: State legislatures to convene amid pandemic State legislatures across the country will be convening in 2021 with a common theme at the center of their workHere’s what’s happening Monday with the pandemic in the U.S.:THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY— State lawmakers across the country will convene in 2021 with the continuing COVID-19 pandemic rippling through much of their work — even affecting the way they work. — Coronavirus hospitalizations are stabilizing in parts of California, but patients are still overwhelming hospitals in a large swath of the state, leading Gov. Intensive care units in Southern California and the agricultural San Joaquin Valley have no capacity remaining, according to state figures. QUOTABLE: “COVID will frame everything,” Tim Storey, executive director of the National Conference of State Legislatures, said about state legislatures across the country that will convene in 2021. ———Find AP’s full coverage of the coronavirus pandemic at https://apnews.com/hub/coronavirus-pandemic

Source: ABC News December 29, 2020 18:33 UTC