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  Local Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccinations Halted After FDA and CDC Recommend Pause

  April 13 at 11:45 a.m.

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have recommended a nationwide pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s one shot COVID-19 vaccine due to new evidence of some extremely rare but potentially dangerous side effects in a small number of...

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  Houston Area COVID Vaccinations On The Rise As Abbott Bans Vaccine Passports Statewide

  April 9 at 12:55 p.m.

  Two weeks after the state health department declared all Texan adults eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine, there’s definite cause for optimism that the rising number of local residents protected from the coronavirus may mean the worst of the global pandemic could finally be behind us. Local vaccinations continue at...

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  Please Get Vaccinated, Don’t Take Horse Dewormer

  April 8 at 4 a.m.

  The anti-vaccination crowd has found a new way to maybe get people killed. Goodbye, hydroxychloroquine. Hello ivermectin, a horse dewormer. The drug began circulating in goonybird rhetoric last December as a possible treatment for prophylaxis in COVID-19 patients. It’s since entered conspiracy theory circles as the simple cure They don’t...

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  Turner Challenges Local College Students to Get Vaccinated Now That All Adults Are Eligible

  March 29 at 5:56 p.m.

  On the first day that all Texans 16 and older became eligible to get vaccinated against COVID-19, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner stopped by the University of Houston to urge local college students to sign-up for a coronavirus vaccine as quickly as they can. The pro-vaccine pep rally at UH came...

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  Hidalgo Says Local COVID Vaccinators Need To Make Black and Hispanic Residents Top Priority

  March 25 at 3:59 p.m.

  As Harris County crossed the threshold of one million COVID-19 vaccine shots into the arms of local residents Thursday afternoon, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo pleaded with local vaccine providers to do a better job of getting doses to the county’s hard-hit minority communities. Even though she acknowledged that hitting...

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  Degree of Diffiiculty: Starting a Counseling Career During a Pandemic

  March 24 at 4 a.m.

  Ashley Burks touches the doorknob to her office, wondering who might have put their hands on it while she was away. She looks through the room at the community health center where she works, gaming out all of the potential permutations of where her client may choose to sit down and...