World crosses 100 million coronavirus cases
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Pallbearers carry Trancito Rangel s casket into the back of a hearse during his funeral service at Compean Funeral Home on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Houston. Rangel, 46, was a construction worker who died of COVID-19.Godofredo A. Vásquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
The world crossed 100 million confirmed coronavirus cases today.
The U.S. has more than 25 million cases, and there have been 2.3 million infections in Texas alone.
Black, American Indian and Latino communities have been the hardest hit by the pandemic because of underlying conditions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Socioeconomic status, access to adequate health care and increased exposure to the virus related to occupation are a few of the social determinants causing the infection gap.
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New partnership takes on hookworm infection in rural Alabama
A new collaboration between researchers at the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Co. will aid researchers in providing care for children with hookworm infection in rural Alabama.
Hookworm infection is caused by a worm parasite, with the most serious effect being blood loss that can lead to anemia, protein loss, cognitive disabilities and stunted growth in children. Hookworm infects over half a billion people in the world and is endemic in resource-limited areas of Latin America, China and Africa, but also is seen in rural areas of Alabama and likely in other impoverished areas in the Southern United States with poor sewage and sanitation due to fecal contamination.
Jason Garza for The Texas Tribune
Originally published on December 23, 2020 9:25 am
When Julieta Hernandez began hearing the first rumblings about a COVID-19 vaccine soon arriving in Texas, the Rockport writer and bartender had no doubts that she would get her shot when her time came.
And then she sat down to breakfast with her vegetarian parents, lifelong believers in homeopathic treatments with a deep skepticism for vaccines and mistrust in the government.
“You’re not planning on getting that, are you?” they asked her.
Now, Hernandez, 22, is on the fence, feeling guilty because she knows “it’s the right thing to do” but wanting to trust her parents and her own naturalistic upbringing.