Texas coronavirus

Gov. Greg Abbott told healthcare providers to give out all the vaccines they have — and not to hold on to them to make sure people get their second doses, because more doses are on the way.

State health officials said Sunday that 28 hubs will be getting 158,825 doses this week.

After a rocky and sluggish start, lawmakers are calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to communicate better and move some groups to the front of the line.

Bigger hospitals in Texas have received shipments of the Pfizer vaccine. Those facilities have the bulk of COVID-19 patients, as many rural hospitals don’t have intensive care units, and generally transfer their critical patients to the larger care centers. But the smaller, “critical access” hospitals are dealing with COVID-19 patients, too.

The new stimulus bill passed by Congress late Monday will avert a potentially catastrophic and historic wave of evictions, at least temporarily. Lawmakers agreed to a $900 billion relief deal that would, among its provisions, send another $25 billion in rental assistance and extend a nationwide eviction moratorium.

Texas' vaccine rollout has just started and cities across the state are seeing record numbers of new cases.

The first round of vaccinations comes as Texas is seeing a massive surge in cases. There are currently more than 1.3 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state.

More than 2.5 million households in Texas didn't always have enough food to eat in November, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. About two-thirds of those households were either Hispanic or Black.

Teach for America DFW has partnered with the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence to focus on the mental health of educators.

Gov. Greg Abbott’s administration has about $2 billion remaining — and less than a month in which to spend it.