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![Houston firefighters remove PPE after a call for a man experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, at a home in Houston.]()
TX workers filed over 90K COVID claims, $121M paid in benefitsThe COVID-19 pandemic halted a 20-year trend in Texas of declining workers’ compensation claims.By Natalie Walters- By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
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- The Biden administration is lifting its requirement that international travelers test negative for COVID-19 within a day before boarding a flight to the United States. By ZEKE MILLER and DAVID KOENIG
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![A file photo from 2018 shows a worker at Houston’s 69th Street Wastewater Treatment Plant. The city is testing samples from the plants for COVID-19.]()
- Safety-net hospitals and clinics are seeing sharply higher costs for salaries and other basic operating expenses, and they fear they won’t be prepared if there’s another surge and no backstop. By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
- Moderna on Thursday asked U.S. regulators to authorize low doses of its COVID-19 vaccine for children younger than 6, a long-awaited move toward potentially opening shots for millions of tots by summer. Moderna submitted data to the Food and Drug... By LAURAN NEERGAARD
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![The fund known as the Health Resources and Services Administration COVID-19 Uninsured Program — created to help hospitals pay for the care of uninsured COVID patients — has dried up.]()
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![What Is Omicron's Incubation Period?: Omicron's incubation period is shorter than previous COVID-19 variants. Here's why that matters.]()
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![FILE - Fans storm the court at the conclusion of a college basketball game in Champaign, Ill., on Sunday, March 6, 2022. After about two months of falling COVID-19 cases, pandemic restrictions have been lifted across the U.S., and many people are taking off their masks and returning to indoor spaces.]()
- The nation’s 18 million children under 5 are the only age group not yet eligible for vaccination. By LAURAN NEERGAARD
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![Students are shown at Atherton Elementary School, 2011 Solo St., Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020 in Houston.]()
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![Houston is dropping its indoor face mask requirements for city buildings as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to fall.]()
- The drug is for adults and adolescent patients with mild-to-moderate cases. By MATTHEW PERRONE and RICARDO ALSONSO-ZALDIVAR
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![Maria Bottazzi replaces vials of the vaccine into a freezer at the Tropical Medicine Lab at Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development in Houston.]()
- More than a third of COVID-19 survivors by some estimates will develop lingering problems. By LAURA UNGAR and LINDSEY TANNER
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![LEFT: Gabriela Hernandez leans over her daughter, Kimberly, who is being treated for covid-19 and an autoimmune disease at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.]()
- France is tightening its vaccination rules in a way that could put Novak Djokovic at risk of missing the French Open.
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- BA.2, is widely considered stealthier than the original version of omicron. By LAURA UNGAR
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![Last week, the Biden administration launched covidtests.gov, where people can order rapid at-home antigen tests free of charge.]()
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- The new U.S. study will include up to 1,420 volunteers ages 18 to 55. By LAURAN NEERGAARD
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![Anders Fomsgaard, a respected virologist in Denmark, says the world is five steps behind the coronavirus.]()
- Research shows that people of color are at a higher risk of severe illness. By TODD RICHMOND
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![Darrelyn Mathieu, patient care assistant, provides care for a patient in the cardiovascular acute care unit, at Houston Methodist Debakey Heart and Vascular Center on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in Houston. Texas hospitals, already facing an increase in patients brought by the pandemic, is dealing with poached nurses. Seven months after hospitals competed for ventilators, personal protective equipment and COVID-19 test, nurses have become the hot commodity, desperately needed around the country.]()
- Several food banks have reported a similar dynamic: minimal volunteers for most of 2021. By ASHRAF KHALIL
