Edgar Walters | Texas Tribune
Edgar Walters is a reporter with the Texas Tribune.
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The governor said a vaccine could start arriving by mid-December. The state has said health care workers will be the first to receive voluntary vaccinations. -
The man who arrived at the emergency room in Childress earlier this month did not have COVID-19, but he did have a serious abdominal condition that... -
Budget cuts meant skimpier caches of protective equipment, and Texas' chronic shortage of public health workers has made the response more difficult, experts said. -
State health officials walked back a plan to cut $15 million in funding from health and safety net programs, including services that offer low-income... -
The Texas Department of State Health Services said it will now rely on a calculation that takes into account the date on which a coronavirus test was administered, rather than when it was reported. -
The Texas Academy of Family Physicians is also asking legislators to expand Medicaid insurance coverage to low-income adults and restore funding for a program that studied racial health disparities. -
After a midsummer surge of COVID-19 cases pushed some Texas hospitals to the brink, the state’s coronavirus numbers improved in August, with statewide... -
In response to Texas’ recently plummeting coronavirus testing numbers and heightened rate of people testing positive, Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday... -
After months of undercounting coronavirus deaths, Texas’ formal tally of COVID-19 fatalities grew by more than 600 on Monday after state health... -
Three weeks after Gov. Greg Abbott required Texans to wear masks , epidemiologists and disease modelers say they are cautiously optimistic that the...
