KAREN BROOKS HARPER, THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

Texas

His public custody battle helped ignite a movement against transgender health care for kids. Will it carry him to the Texas House?

KAREN BROOKS HARPER, THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

Jeff Younger sees himself as the “tip of the spear” in an effort that led the state to investigate parents of transgender children for child abuse.
Bioscience-Medicine

The Delta Variant Is Wreaking Havoc On Most Of Texas — But Not El Paso. Here’s Why.

KAREN BROOKS HARPER, THE TEXAS TRIBUNE

High vaccination rates, geography and a sense of community in the wake of 2019’s Walmart shootings help keep El Paso’s delta numbers low, experts and locals say.
Border & Immigration

This Rio Grande Valley Hospital Had More COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Than Employees Who Wanted Them

Vianna Davila | The Texas Tribune and ProPublica

Though he wasn’t slated to get one of the first quarter-million COVID-19 vaccines distributed in Texas, Rio Grande Valley pharmacist Danny Vela figured he’d be earlier in line than most simply because of what he does.Then he got a call Saturday from someone he knows at Doctors Hospital at Renaissance in Edinburg, one of the Texas facilities hardest hit by the virus this year. Vela is not an employee of the hospital, but he was told vaccine doses were available if he wanted one.The reason: The hospital ended up with more vaccines than employees who wanted one, DHR Health’s chief medical officer told the Texas Tribune on Sunday.