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VACCINATION


In Laredo, a bus brigade is vaccinating Mexican citizens with COVID-19 shots that Texans aren’t using

Launched in June, a cross-border effort using buses and donated vaccines is helping roughly 2,000 Nuevo Laredo residents per day get COVID-19 shots in Laredo — 10% of Texas’ daily total.

The stories behind the Texans lost to COVID-19

Since vaccines became widely available for Texans 12 and older last May, about 82% of Texas’ COVID-19 deaths were among the unvaccinated.

An end to the omicron surge is in sight, but relief comes slowly in hard-hit Laredo

COVID-19 numbers are plummeting statewide, but on Texas’ southern border with Mexico, Laredo is still battling its fourth surge.

From obscurity to a Nobel Prize nomination: Houston scientists acclaimed for their patent-free COVID-19 vaccine

Corbevax, a low-cost coronavirus vaccine created in Houston, could be a better weapon against COVID-19 by reaching the unvaccinated in poorer countries.

Austria's Covid vaccine law comes into force amid resistance

The country is the first in Europe to make vaccination against Covid-19 mandatory for over-18s.

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Two-thirds with Omicron say they have had Covid before

The latest findings hint at how common reinfections might be and who is more likely to catch Covid again.

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“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.

Who’s required to get vaccinated in Texas? Here’s what you should know

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Biden administration’s mandate that requires federal employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19. The Department of Justice is appealing the decision.

Analysis: A Texas election in the shade of government’s third branch

Challenges to new Texas laws on voting, political districts and abortion are all pending in court, as is the state’s challenge to federal vaccine mandates. But until the courts rule, those laws remain in place — and they provide political fodder for the incumbents who support them.

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Omicron on track to shatter Texas' COVID-19 hospitalization record

“The situation in Texas is that it probably won’t reach the peak [for cases] until the second half of January,” a top researcher said.

Gov. Greg Abbott sues Biden administration over vaccine mandate for National Guard

The state has already challenged the federal government’s vaccine orders for big businesses, health care workers and federal contractors.

Top stories from our data visuals team in 2021

In 2021, the Tribune’s data visuals team helped tell the biggest stories affecting Texans. Here’s a roundup of our most impactful work.

Omicron is sidelining even health care workers as it rips through Texas

The highly contagious omicron variant has led to a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases in Texas. Hospitalizations are beginning to increase in a health care system already troubled by staffing shortages.

Texans getting COVID-19 vaccine boosters outpace those getting first shots as omicron bears down

So far this month, at least 1.2 million Texans have gotten booster shots — nearly triple the number of people who received their first doses of the vaccine during the same time.

Texas has the highest share of uninsured residents in the nation. Another COVID-19 wave puts them at risk.

Untreated medical conditions, lack of access to testing and limited paid time off leave uninsured Texans particularly vulnerable to the disease.

With the federal vaccine mandate for health care workers halted, Texas nursing homes dodge furloughs and fines

Texas’ nursing home staff vaccination rates are lower than half the country’s — but a judge’s decision last week to delay a vaccine mandate helped them avoid laying off a third of their employees.

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.

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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Judge blocks Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health care workers after Texas, other states sue

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton had called the mandate “an unprecedented federal vaccine decree” on health care workers.

Covid: New Omicron variant not a disaster, says Sage scientist

Prof Calum Semple says some scientists are "hugely overstating" the fears around the Omicron variant.

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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.

Covid: The country locking down the unvaccinated

Some two million people without Covid-19 jabs have been told to stay home in Austria.

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Majority of Texans support COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates, UT/TT poll says

Fifty-seven percent of voters support mask requirements in indoor public spaces based on local conditions, while 58% support mask requirements in public schools.

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.

Slovaks expand restrictions, plan more amid record surge

Slovakia has expanded strict coronavirus restrictions to nearly half of the country amid a record surge of infections

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Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Biden administration over new COVID-19 vaccination rules for big businesses

The move comes a week after Texas filed a separate lawsuit over new vaccination rules for federal contractors.

Vaccination slots filling up as Texas children ages 5-11 receive first COVID-19 vaccines

Appointment slots filled up quickly for the first pediatric doses. More kid-friendly shot sites come with therapy dogs, toys and snacks.

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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.

Texas sues the Biden administration over federal COVID-19 vaccine mandates

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott have been at war with locals and federal officials over vaccinate mandates. Earlier this month, Abbott expanded an executive order to block the requirement for any entity in Texas, including health care facilities and private businesses.

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.

Wondering who can get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot and when? Here’s what Texans need to know.

The vaccine’s protection goes down with time, so medical experts recommend a supplemental dose after two to six months. Find out here if it’s time to get one.

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.

Texas bill to block COVID-19 vaccine mandates for employers failed in Legislature after business groups rallied against it

A prohibition on vaccine mandates was one of Gov. Greg Abbott’s priorities for the special session, but it did not have enough support in the Legislature.

Texas Supreme Court puts San Antonio school district’s vaccine mandate on hold

The halt comes after Gov. Greg Abbott expanded his ban on COVID-19 vaccine mandates — which previously applied to cities, counties and school districts — to private employers.

“It puts a big burden on employers”: Businesses face tough choices after Gov. Greg Abbott bans vaccine mandates

American Airlines and Southwest Airlines say they will continue requiring employee vaccinations despite Abbott’s new order, which has left federal government contractors, nursing homes and other companies caught between conflicting rules from the Biden administration and the state.

Texas nursing homes turn to state for help with staffing woes as vaccine mandate looms

About 40% of Texas nursing home workers are unvaccinated and could face dismissal or quit their jobs under a federal vaccination requirement for the industry.

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Amid a sharp rise in COVID-19 deaths this summer, more Texans under 60 are dying

Health officials say that the state’s high rate of unvaccinated people contributed to a summer surge in hospitalizations, which preceded the spike in deaths.

Los mitos de las vacunas contra la COVID-19

Escuche al Dr. Ivan Meléndez disipar la desinformación que corre entre la población de habla hispana.

Texas doctors, seeing unprecedented numbers of pregnant patients with COVID-19, urge pregnant people to get vaccinated

Pregnant women are getting vaccinated at lower rates than the general population. “This variant is much more aggressive, [and] pregnant women are getting sicker much faster,” one doctor says.

Nearly 2 million people in Texas are overdue for a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine

More than 11% of those who received their first dose haven’t gotten a second shot, and more than 1 million people are more than 90 days overdue.

Scrap Covid tests for most travellers, says industry

The government has "choked off" travel trade and 70% of firms plan redundancies, says Abta.

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A Houston day care convinced all its workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Now it requires a shot.

While some national companies are requiring employees to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, mandates have been the exception for businesses in Texas.

Covid: High virus levels 'highly likely' in schools

Scientific advisers say government should plan for this happening by the end of September in England.

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Texas lawmakers supported a statewide vaccine mandate a decade ago. Now skepticism abounds about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Ten years ago, the state led in requiring meningitis vaccines for students under 22 enrolling in college. Now, in the middle of a pandemic, lawmakers are more skeptical of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick blames Democrats for low vaccinations among Black residents, but more white Texans are unvaccinated

In Texas, the vaccination rate among Black people is low compared with other racial and ethnic groups, but in terms of raw numbers, the biggest group of the unvaccinated is white people.

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“Tired of putting bodies in body bags,” this Austin ICU nurse scaled back her hours in the hospital

Sheyla Moraes, an intensive care nurse, says this latest surge of the coronavirus pandemic is particularly draining because it was preventable. Listen in the weekend edition of The Brief podcast.

San Francisco to require proof of vaccination at indoor venues

Worried that the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus could derail San Francisco’s economic rebound, Mayor London Breed announced Thursday that the city will require proof of full vaccination at indoor restaurants, bars, gyms and entertainment venues to help keep businesses open.

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Texas warns Austin restaurants that their liquor licenses could be revoked for requiring proof of COVID-19 vaccinations

Senate Bill 968, signed into law in June, allows the TABC and other agencies to revoke businesses' state licenses if they make vaccine proof a requirement of getting service.

CNN fires unvaccinated employees for going to office

The network is among several US firms to require employees working with others to be vaccinated.

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COVID-19 is spreading fast among Texas’ unvaccinated. Here’s who they are and where they live.

There are two main groups within Texas’ unvaccinated population: white conservatives in rural areas, and Hispanic and Black people in big cities.

CDC wants more vaccinated people and schoolchildren to mask up — but Texas keeps it voluntary

Texas Republican state leaders held their ground against allowing local schools and governments to require masks. The CDC guidelines are not mandates and have no weight of law.

Newsmax vouches for vaccines after host Rob Schmitt says shots are ‘against nature’

“A guest or host may not be as supportive of these efforts,” the conservative network said. “However, they do not reflect the position of Newsmax.”

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Houston-area COVID-19 outbreak — including delta variant cases — should be a wake-up call for Texans, health expert warns

The latest, most transmissible coronavirus variant is spreading rampantly in countries with low vaccination rates, and health experts are bracing for impact in Texas.

After a year of living carefully, nearly half of Texas voters have returned to their pre-pandemic lives, UT/TT Poll finds

In the June poll, 47% of voters said they were coming and going as they were before the pandemic, while 39% said they were leaving the house but exercising caution.

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Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff visiting Texas to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations

Their Texas swing is part of a larger effort by senior administration officials who are fanning out across the country this week to encourage vaccinations ahead of the administration’s self-imposed goal of hitting a 70% countrywide vaccination rate by July 4.

Watch: Meet the Texas doctors on a mission to vaccinate their rural communities

Worried about a possible resurgence of COVID-19 infections, doctors Carolyn Salter and her husband, Michael Gorby, have taken it upon themselves to get lagging vaccination rates up in rural East Texas.

Some medically vulnerable Texans feel left behind as the state returns to normal

The possibility that the vaccine won’t work — or that, as some worry, it could even hurt them — is a devastating blow after a year of sacrifice, isolation and waiting for protection against the virus.

Gov. Greg Abbott signs bill to punish businesses that require proof of COVID-19 vaccination

Abbott's signature means that businesses that require so-called vaccine passports can't get state contracts and could lose state licenses or operating permits.

Texas lawmakers responded to the pandemic by limiting what the government can do in response to a pandemic

Lawmakers didn’t succeed in curtailing the governor's power during a disaster, but they did pass bills that prohibit so-called vaccine passports and ban the mandatory closure of churches and gun stores.

Texas GOP state senator urged use of unproven hydroxychloroquine treatment for COVID-19. Now he's spreading doubt about vaccines.

In a period of sagging vaccination rates — particularly among staunch conservatives — state Sen. Bob Hall used his platform to promulgate debunked anti-vaccine conspiracies and push claims that have largely been eschewed by the medical community.

KSAT Community Vaccination Q&A Phone Bank Wednesday

SAN ANTONIO - Vaccines are needed throughout your child's life to protect against serious diseases. KSAT Community will be holding a Vaccination Q&A Phone Bank on Wednesday, Aug. 7, from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m.Watch the Vaccination Q&A:University Health System employees will help answer any questions you may have regarding vaccinations. Having your child vaccinated is just one part of supporting your child's health. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, when children are vaccinated according to the recommended timetables, it helps keep people within the community healthy. KSAT Community operates in partnership with University Health System, Energy Transfer and San Antonio Area Chevy Dealers.

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