Author: KAREN BROOKS HARPER
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Biden administration drops fight over Texas’ Medicaid waiver, now in place until 2030
A federal health care program that Texas uses to help pay for health care for uninsured Texans — worth billions of dollars annually — is…
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For Texas children, COVID-19 hospitalizations are outpacing vaccinations
There’s a little list of things that Richmond, Texas, mom Vanessa Lui promised her daughter Zoe they could do after the third grader got her…
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With the federal vaccine mandate for health care workers halted, Texas nursing homes dodge furloughs and fines
Ronald Payne was on the verge of carrying out companywide furloughs this week at the nursing home chain he runs in Texas, letting go of…
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FDA panel recommends approval of the Pfizer vaccine for kids ages 5-11. Here’s what that means for Texans.
An advisory panel of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended Tuesday that the agency authorize the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for use on children ages…
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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?
The day before COVID-19 claimed its first Texas victim in 2020, Dr. Peter Hotez was a guest on the popular Austin-based podcast “The Drive.” After…
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