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  Houston Health Department Has A Plan For Second COVID-19 Vaccine Doses

  January 13 at 10:28 a.m.

  If you’re one of the thousands of Houstonians lucky enough to have received a shot of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine from the Houston Health Department since it kicked-off public vaccinations to those who qualify on January 2, you’re probably feeling a combination of emotions. There’s the obvious excitement about being on...

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  New COVID Vaccine Strategies for Texas as We're "Right in the Middle of the Storm"

  January 11 at 4:50 p.m.

  While being justifiably proud that the city pumped 3,852 (possibly record-breaking) doses of the Moderna vaccine into people's arms at Minute Maid Park Saturday, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner wasn't nearly as happy about the other coronavirus numbers he was reporting at his Monday afternoon press conference.  "We are right in...

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  New Year Resolution? Remember Weight Loss Does Not Equal Wellness

  January 11 at 4 a.m.

  It’s a new year, and many of you are running out to buy exercise equipment so you can shed the pounds you put on stress eating at home during the end of the world. The entire fitness industry sees a jump around this time annually, and their marketing matches that...

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  Rice Moves All Classes Online, Delays Student Move-In Thanks To COVID-19 Surge

  January 8 at 2:46 p.m.

  Rice University did a good enough job this fall of keeping the coronavirus in check within its tree-lined campus that it was planning to raise the number of students allowed in any given in-person class for the upcoming spring semester. But in a message to the Rice community Friday morning,...

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  COVID Hospitalizations Surge and Houston Area Heads For a Rollback

  January 5 at 5:54 p.m.

  In a Tuesday afternoon press conference, Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo said that she expected that Harris and surrounding counties would likely have to start reimplementing occupancy restrictions for local businesses and halt non-essential elective surgical procedures, all thanks to Gov. Greg Abbott’s statewide order that tied reopenings to COVID-19...

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  Local Health Departments Off To Rocky Start With COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

  January 4 at 5:01 p.m.

  Both the Houston Health Department and Harris County Public Health started giving out COVID-19 vaccinations to the public this past weekend, and each rollout has had more than its fair share of technical hiccups, glitches and snafus that left countless qualifying Houstonians frustrated and hundreds of county residents with cancelled...