";s:4:"text";s:5631:"He has covered several topics, but focuses on crime, courts and record requests the most. She hails from the suburbs of Chicago and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Texas Gov. Tags: Greg Abbott, coronavirus, back to school, education, Texas SAN ANTONIO – Texas Gov. Gov. June 22, 2020 . One such project involves designating high school students in underserved communities as health ambassadors to build trust, which she said has had good initial results.“The ability to vaccinate has been there, but the uptake can be improved,” Bhavan said. But even better, Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner Dr. John Hellerstedt said, is that there’s a vaccine for the flu that’s highly effective.”We have an excellent vaccine that has been proven to be very effective in the flu season (that happened earlier) in the southern hemisphere,” Hellerstedt said.Fares Sabawi has been a journalist in San Antonio for three years. The Texas Department of Emergency Management has started distributing supplies to school districts, including 60 million masks and 560,000 gallons of hand sanitizer, and he said it will continue to provide more over the course of the school year.Abbott and other officials on Thursday emphasized the importance of as many people as possible going to get the flu vaccine, which generally hits shelves around September. “We’re continuing to work in that space and develop research to think through communities that are underserved and undervaccinated, how can we improve upon that?”Taylor Goldenstein is a state bureau reporter covering the Attorney General and federal courts among other topics. Nearly 2/3 of Texans Disapprove of Gov. She's previously written for the Austin-American Statesman, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Tampa Bay Times. It could be an uphill battle, early indicators show.Dr. Photos; Videos; Texas First Lady Cecilia Abbott Announces McConaughey Family As Next Special Guests For Stars Of Texas Storytime. He also has a recurring appearance on KSAT News at 9's Trending Now segment. Kavita Bhavan, associate professor of infectious diseases at UT Southwestern, said Thursday that she and her colleagues are working on improving public education in this area.
WESLACO, Texas — Texas Governor Greg Abbott visited the Rio Grande Valley on Tuesday and gave an update on how the state looks to respond to the destruction left by Hurricane Hanna. Greg Abbott's Handling of the Pandemic, Poll Shows Jul 31, 2020 San Antonio Surpasses 40,000 COVID-19 Cases, But Hospitalization Numbers Improve Abbott warns Texans of dangerous convergence this fall (AP Photo/Eric Gay) Greg Abbott on Thursday urged Texans to get flu vaccines early and take action to protect themselves to avoid overburdening already-strained Texas hospitals dealing with the pandemic.“With a flu season that could be prolific, if that leads to greater hospitalizations, coupled with the hospitalizations they’re seeing for COVID-19, you could easily see how hospitals in this region as well as across Texas will be completely overrun with an inability for hospitals to take care of the medical needs of everybody in the entire region,” Abbott said in an appearance at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.The Republican governor made the comments in a news conference following a closed-door roundtable discussion about the flu season with top health and medical officials and state lawmakers, including UT Southwestern Medical Center President Dr. Daniel K. Podolsky.As of Thursday, the rate at which Texans were testing positive for COVID-19 was up to 17 percent, according to state data. Dan Patrick will instead chair the state’s delegation to the scaled-down gathering. Texas Governor Greg Abbott speaks during a news conference at the Texas State Capitol during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Greg Abbott said after a roundtable with doctors and state officials in Dallas. Greg Abbott will skip the Republican National Convention later this month in North Carolina as he continues to respond to the coronavirus pandemic in Texas, and Lt. Gov. Gov. Texas Gov. In 2014, she was a visiting fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.COVID and the flu: Gov. AUSTIN – Texas First Lady Cecilia Abbott today announced that Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey and his wife, model and designer Camila Alves McConaughey, will be the special guests for tomorrow’s Stars of Texas … Abbott announced the plan in a letter dated Friday to the national GOP chairwoman, Ronna McDaniel. As Texans continue to take measures against the spread of COVID-19, there is another wave of infections we will soon have to worry about — the flu.Flu season is around the corner, which has public health experts worried about its potential impact.“That could be prolific,” Gov. Greg Abbott speaks to the media during a visit to a Texas Division of Emergency Management Warehouse filled with Personal Protective Equipment, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in San Antonio. (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. FILE - This Jan. 23, 2020 file photo shows a patient receiving a flu vaccination in Mesquite, Texas. Greg Abbott speaks to the media during a visit to a Texas Division of Emergency Management Warehouse filled with Personal Protective Equipment, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in San Antonio. Texas Governor Greg Abbott, who has been busy handling the state’s response to Hurricane Harvey, is married to Cecilia Abbott.