Posted on · Under Gov. Greg Abbott's orders, if COVID-19 patients made up 15% or more of all hospitalizations, it would automatically trigger restrictions that include the closure of all bars and a reduction of restaurant capacity to 50%.
Posted on · Houstonians most vulnerable to the coronavirus will get access to the vaccine before the rest of the population.
Posted on · Robert Luckey, a registered nurse who works in the Memorial Hermann COVID-19 ICU in the Texas Medical Center, became the first person to be vaccinated in the Houston area on Tuesday, kicking off the state's phased-in vaccination plan.
Posted on · All across Texas on Monday hospitals began to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
Posted on · Texas hospitals are getting 225,000 doses of the long-awaited COVID-19 vaccine this week. But with such limited supply, health care workers in some parts of the state are nervous they might be left behind.
Posted on · Hospitals are switching to Phase 2 operations for the first time since the summer.
Posted on · On Monday's show: The latest on the COVID-19 pandemic in Greater Houston, a chance to vent your Houston pet peeves, and an update on local sports.
Posted on · The Houston Health Department reported a positivity rate of 7.9% on Monday at their COVID-19 testing sites. Harris County officials said Tuesday their number is 8.2%, which is lower than what some hospitals' emergency rooms are seeing right now.
Posted on · A SWAT team was sent to the scene to respond to a potential barricaded person, police said.
Posted on · Hospitals in Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley are struggling to keep up with the constant and growing flow of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations.
Posted on · Conversations about spiking COVID-19 infections and the preparedness of Houston's healthcare system.
Posted on · The spread of COVID-19 in Harris County is at a "severe and uncontrolled level," Hidalgo said at a press conference Friday.
Posted on · The heads of four hospitals in the Texas Medical Center said that, despite fears to the contrary, they have ample bed capacity and PPE to deal with the spike in cases
Posted on · "Because it is such a new pandemic and a new disease, every day we were learning new things about these patients."
Posted on · It’s mostly smaller healthcare facilities that are short on PPE, Houston nurse says.