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Rural Texas Hospitals Struggling in Face of COVID-19
Hospitals may be the front line in the fight against COVID-19, but some of the troops are receiving less support than others. Rural hospitals...
How Long Before We Achieve Herd Immunity for COVID-19?
Herd immunity has been receiving a lot of attention lately as strategies evolve on how to safely ease stay-home rules while we do not...
10,000 Reasons We Need to Unleash SNAP to Fight the Coronavirus
Last week, the San Antonio Food Bank served a crowd of 10,000 Texans reeling from the economic effects of COVID-19. An aerial photo of...
Texas Retailers Ready to Start To-go Service
Retailers in Texas can start offering curbside pickups today. The partial reopening is part of Gov. Greg Abbott’s phased plan to help the state’s...
Conservative Now Suing Over Coronavirus Mask Order
The criticism of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s new mandatory mask order came swiftly, was harsh and appeared to land along political party lines....
How Much Will Have to be Cut From the State Budget in 2021?
Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen has suggested budget cuts of 5 percent to offset anticipated revenue losses brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
Two Texas Meat Packing Plants Have Coronavirus Outbreaks
The steak stakes are high in Texas.
Initial impacts of the novel coronavirus on Texas’ meat industry had been on the supply side, where suppliers...
1.3 Million Texans Are Unemployed
Another 280,406 Texans filed for unemployment last week, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. The new claims bring the total number of those...
Pro- and Anti-vaccination Groups Prepare for Battle Over Coronavirus Vaccine
A vaccine for coronavirus is likely still more than a year away, but it’s on the minds of Texans right now.
On both sides of...
Food Banks Work to Feed Hungry Texans
Families and individuals who have never been in need of food are now. If you are without a paycheck because of the coronavirus pandemic...
