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Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune

Karen Brooks Harper, The Texas Tribune
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Karen Brooks Harper is an Austin-based freelance writer for the Texas Tribune.

Omicron Pushes Texas ICUs To The Brink

The number of Texas intensive care unit beds available for adult patients is at an all-time low for the pandemic, with only 259 staffed...

COVID-19 Hospitalizations Double In Texas As Omicron Strains Staffing

The number of Texans hospitalized each day with COVID-19 continued to rise over the New Year’s holiday, according to state health numbers released Monday,...

Texas Reports Its First Case Of The Omicron COVID-19 Variant

Texas has identified its first case of the omicron COVID-19 variant, a strain flagged as potentially more infectious than any that has come before...

Unvaccinated Texans Make Up Vast Majority Of COVID-19 Cases And Deaths This Year, New...

Out of nearly 29,000 Texans who have died from COVID-related illnesses since mid-January, only 8% of them were fully vaccinated against the virus, according...

COVID-19 Vaccines for Kids 5-11 Are Heading to Texas After FDA Gives Pfizer Shot...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine on children ages 5-11, marking a long-awaited...

At Least One Major Texas Abortion Provider Resumes Procedure Lawmakers Tried to Prohibit, After...

At least one major abortion provider on Thursday resumed providing the procedure to patients who had been previously shut out by Texas' near-total ban,...

At Least 92 Texas Hospitals Were Out of ICU Beds Last Week, According to...

As the highly contagious delta variant of COVID-19 spreads and sends unvaccinated Texans to the hospital with serious illness, hospitals are under enormous pressure...

Texas’ Biggest County Saw a Sixfold Jump in Vaccine Rates After Offering $100 for...

A week after public health officials in Texas’ most populous county started handing out $100 cash cards to locals getting their first COVID-19 shot,...

Federal Judge Rules for Texas, Temporarily Restores Federal Health Care Funding Extension

A federal district judge on Friday temporarily reinstated a 10-year extension of a federal health care program that Texas uses to help pay for...

Texas House Advances Bill That Would Ban Homeless Encampments in Public

The Texas House on Wednesday moved to advance a bill that would ban homeless encampments in public places statewide, a move that comes less...
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