On Memorial Day weekend, the mood in Texas was optimistic. It had been just over three weeks since Texas became one of the first states in the country to begin a phased reopening. Confirmed cases of Covid-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, had been increasing only slightly for three months. Gov. Greg Abbott, a…
The virus has heightened long-simmering friction in the largest Republican-led state in the country, with Gov. Greg Abbott under attack from within his own party.Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas gave an update on hospital bed capacity and virus strategy last month in Houston. Texas has become one of the largest coronavirus hot spots in the…
(Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday set one-day records for increases in COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations in the state, forcing one county to store bodies in refrigerated trucks and prompting a top health official there to call for new stay-at-home orders. Contact tracers with the Houston Health Department monitor the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)…
A new poll is the latest to indicate that Joe Biden might have a shot at becoming the first Democrat to win the red state of Texas in more than four decades.Jimmy Carter was the last Democratic presidential candidate to carry the Lone Star State, and that was in 1976.BIDEN AIRS FIRST GENERAL ELECTION TV AD IN TEXASBut a…
At 2 days old, David Alejandro Vega weighed just 3 pounds, spindly arms and legs reaching from his neonatal intensive care incubator for a mother he couldn’t touch.She was quarantined across the hospital in a maternal coronavirus ward.Like many expectant mothers with COVID-19, Mayra Vega delivered several weeks premature, by caesarean section, on Thursday. She…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…