Even though a legal fight continues, providers warn that abortion clinics could eventually have to shut down since enforcement of the law can continue.
Karen Brooks Harper
Karen Brooks Harper reported on the state budget and health and human services from 2020 to 2024. An alumna of the Missouri School of Journalism, Karen arrived in Texas in 1995 to join the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, spent several years in Laredo and Mexico covering immigration and the drug war for Knight-Ridder newspapers, and has covered Texas politics for more than two decades for news organizations including the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the Dallas Morning News and Reuters.
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Texas reports its first case of the omicron COVID-19 variant
Early indicators suggest the variant is very contagious, but little is known about the severity of disease it causes.
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Texas scientists search for potentially virulent new omicron COVID-19 variant as state health officials push vaccination
So much is unknown about the new COVID-19 variant: the severity of the illness it causes, whether it can resist vaccines and natural antibodies and whether it’s more contagious than the delta variant that has burned through Texas and the U.S. for months.
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COVID-19 hospitalizations in Texas are lower than they have been in months, but experts say there’s still reason to be wary
A surge in COVID-19 cases from the West is impacting El Paso.
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Dallas health care program for transgender kids formally dissolved after becoming target of conservative criticism
Hospital officials cited privacy for children as a reason behind the decision and said patients will still receive care through other departments.
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How one grandmother fell into the health insurance gap — and why the Build Back Better plan could help cover Texans like her
At least 770,000 Texans are ineligible for both Medicaid and health insurance subsidies through the state-run marketplaces.
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Unvaccinated Texans make up vast majority of COVID-19 cases and deaths this year, new state data shows
The new state survey is the first time Texas health officials have been able to statistically measure the vaccine’s true impact on the pandemic.
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Young Texans can soon get vaccinated against COVID-19 after CDC signs off on Pfizer shots for kids 5-11
The approval marks a long-awaited milestone in the nearly two-year fight against the deadly virus that experts say has likely already infected nearly half the population in that age group.
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COVID-19 vaccines for kids 5-11 are heading to Texas after FDA gives Pfizer shot emergency use authorization
The federal government will now send a first shipment of more than a million doses destined for children in that age group to providers in nearly half of the state’s counties.
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It’s cheap, easy to make and in demand overseas. So why can’t this Texas-born COVID-19 vaccine break into the U.S. market?
A Houston vaccine team would like a U.S. distributor but for now focuses its efforts abroad to inoculate those in countries where COVID-19 variants surface more quickly.
