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by Brewing America | Jul 23, 2020 | All, contact tracing, COVID-19, education, Health, The National Podcast of Texas | 0 |
Last month, the Texas A&M University Health Science Center and the Brazos Valley Health District announced plans to team up to form COVID Investigation Operations Center. At its core, it’s a contact tracing operation: a...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 16, 2020 | All, Future, Health, innovation, Medicine, robots, Technology | 0 |
Rolling down the hall, the most popular new staffer at Dallas’s Medical City Heart Hospital accepts a fist bump from a nurse before stopping into a supply room to pick up gauze and saline solution to bring to a patient’s room....
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 10, 2020 | All, coronavirus, COVID-19, Health, Peter Hotez, Politics, Society, The National Podcast of Texas | 0 |
As one of the nation’s leading experts on drug and vaccine delivery, Dr. Peter Hotez, codirector of the Center for Vaccine Development at Texas Children’s Hospital, has become an almost ubiquitous presence on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 9, 2020 | All, Beaumont, coronavirus, COVID-19, Health, Longreads, marching bands, News, Politics, southeast texas | 0 |
The spring semester is always a whirlwind for Michael Westbrook and the Hardin-Jefferson High School band. Up until mid-March, this year was no different. The 54-year-old band director was busy preparing his students for...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 2, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Criminal Justice, Health, Immigration, Jail, News, Smith County | 0 |
With her four-year-old in the back seat, Dalila Reynoso parked between a gun store and a bail bond agency in downtown Tyler, peering through the window at the Smith County jail. When she saw a deputy without a mask on, she...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 2, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Health | 0 |
It was mid-March when Dr. Jeffrey Barnard, the chief medical examiner of Dallas County, started to worry. As the number of deaths due to COVID-19 mounted nationwide day-by-day, Barnard felt he wasn’t doing enough in the fight...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jul 1, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Health, Hospitals, Lina Hidalgo, News, Sylvester Turner | 0 |
At a 24-hour emergency clinic in northwest Houston, the line for COVID-19 testing routinely stretches down the block these days. Typically, would-be testees remain in their vehicles, but last Friday night so many Houstonians...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 24, 2020 | All, Fitness, Health | 0 |
By day, Michael Frazier is a florist. By later in the day, he is an aerobic demon. I was only halfway through the online dance-cardio routine he’d choreographed to Britney Spears’s “Hold It Against Me” when I aborted a body roll...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 18, 2020 | All, Bexar County, greg abbott, Health, Lina Hidalgo, News, Politics | 0 |
In happier times, the governorship of Texas was regarded as a “weak” office compared to its counterparts in other states. But as the COVID-19 crisis draws on, and on, and the Legislature remains out of session, Governor Greg...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 17, 2020 | acrylamide, All, American Cancer Society, cancer, Health, Industry, International Agency for Research on Cancer, research, United States | 0 |
The American Cancer Society has updated its guidelines for diet and physical activity for the first time since 2012, sharing evidence that coffee may help people reduce the chance...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 12, 2020 | All, coronavirus, Health, News, Pandemic, the University of Texas | 0 |
Lauren Ancel Meyers was at home with her family in Austin one evening in April 2009 when she saw a news report about a deadly new strain of influenza circulating in Mexico City. She and her husband called a friend living there...
Read Moreby Brewing America | Jun 9, 2020 | All, coronavirus, COVID-19, greg abbott, Health, News, Politics | 0 |
In the past week, 10,000 more Texans tested positive for COVID-19. Over that same period, the number of tests for the virus declined throughout the state compared with the previous week. Those are just two data points released...
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