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At least five organizations in and beyond the state have sent dogs to Uvalde, where they are visiting hospitals, churches and schools. Many have responded to other mass shootings across the country.
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Melissa Brymer says talking to kids about school shootings can be upsetting; you may need to have conversations in small chunks for them to understand. -
Raj Panjabi, who leads the White House pandemic office, says that cases seen in the U.S. so far haven't been severe, and that even in larger outbreaks in poorer countries, few people have died.
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As foreign baby formula begins to arrive in the United States to ease a shortage of the essential baby food product here, the San Antonio Food Bank is trying to help families who can’t find any formula anywhere.
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Due to the response to COVID-19, state-required school screenings for type-2 diabetes are stunted.
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"We're sorry to every family we've let down," wrote CEO Robert Ford. The shuttered plant at the heart of the shortage will reopen in June, but it may take months before production is back to normal.
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The antiviral drug is prescribed to those at risk of severe disease. It's been credited with reducing hospitalizations. But then there's the "Paxlovid rebound."
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Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff tests positive for coronavirus following State of the County addressThis blog is updated on Tuesdays and Fridays. It includes COVID-19 data from San Antonio’s Metropolitan Health District, as well as statewide reporting from The Texas Newsroom. For the latest local data, click here. For the latest state data, click here.
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As waves of omicron and its extremely contagious subvariants burn through previously uninfected populations, it has become clear that people with mild or asymptomatic cases aren’t immune from long COVID. Host Bonnie Petrie talked to Dr. Monica Verduzco Gutierrez, professor and distinguished chair of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, to learn what we know about post-COVID syndrome and what we need to do to prepare for the decades of disability that may remain long after the pandemic is in the rear view.
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Medical professionals face tough quandaries when treating patients who have a miscarriage, a scenario that could soon play out around the country if abortion restrictions tighten.
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Politics, religion, distrust and disinformation all play a role. "I've realized that there's no convincing somebody once they have their mind made up," says a social worker in Beaumont, Texas.
