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Texas Abortion Restrictions
Supreme Court again declines to intervene in challenge to Texas abortion law
The case is currently before the Texas Supreme Court. Abortion providers were hoping the U.S. Supreme Court would reroute the case into federal district court, where a judge had previously blocked the law.
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Texas’ “maternity deserts” grow as staff shortages close rural labor and delivery units
Only 40% of Texas’ rural hospitals offer labor and delivery services, forcing some patients to drive hundreds of miles to give birth. With nurses in short supply, more hospitals are considering cutting those services entirely.
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Coronavirus in Texas
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has fought vaccine mandates, tests positive for COVID-19
Paxton’s office said the Republican “remains working diligently for the people of Texas from home.”
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Health care
A Texas salmonella outbreak highlights the unseen costs of food poisoning
More than 60 people became ill after a funeral reception in Texas. Two years later, some of them are still coping with the financial and medical consequences.
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Texas 2022 Elections
Analysis: Texas politicians await our instructions, but what do voters want?
If Texas politicians seem to be tinkering at the edges of major issues like the pandemic, electric blackouts and education, an election year is the best opportunity to set them straight.
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Texas Abortion Restrictions
Texas abortion law challenge heads to state’s supreme court, likely adding more delays to case
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision means it could take months before abortion providers’ challenge to the restrictive law returns to a federal court.
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Coronavirus in Texas
“We’re about to catch on fire”: Inside a Texas hospital battling omicron and staffing shortages
Texas will soon surpass its previous COVID-19 hospitalization record. Doctors and nurses say they can’t keep up this pace for much longer and implore people to get vaccinated.
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Coronavirus in Texas
With hundreds of nurses out sick, San Antonio lawmakers of both parties ask for governor’s help staffing hospitals
Officials in the state’s major metropolitan areas are increasingly scrambling to find health care workers to deal with a wave of patients with COVID-19.
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Coronavirus in Texas
For Texas children, COVID-19 hospitalizations are outpacing vaccinations
Last fall, just as younger Texans received the green light to get vaccinated, omicron came rushing in, sending more of them to the hospital.