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Untold numbers of Americans have gone without medical care for more than a year now, resulting in health conditions becoming worse, diagnoses being missed, unmeasurable stress for anxious patients and families, and worsening prognoses.
One reason people haven t received care has been ignored in the media, but reveals a disturbing decline of ethics in medicine and politics:
The healthcare industry has been using Covid-19 screening tests to deny care to patients who do not want the test.
With good reason, a lot of people don t want to be tested and forced to become part of the politicization of Covid-19. They recognize that the overwhelming body of scientific evidence, and worldwide science and infectious disease experts, have shown PCR tests to be indefensible for clinical or public health use. These tests
Gov. Greg Abbott claims COVID-19-positive migrants are entering Texas border cities. However, White House and city of Brownsville officials say there are protocols to ensure COVID-19 testing is done before the migrants are released.
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Thursday’s reaction was all the same as San Marcos Consolidated ISD teachers and staff walked into San Marcos High School’s Performing Arts Center to receive their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine relief.
“I’m thrilled,” said Dyanna Eastwood, who is the head nurse at San Marcos High School and administered shots Thursday. “My daughter is a teacher and I’m thrilled that they can get that now. They need to. We need these kids back in school and we need the teachers and the kids to feel comfortable being here. It’s just a huge step.”
‘Hell frozen over:’ Recovery from winter storm damage could take months, Richardson mayor says
At one point during last month’s freezing temperatures, more than 17,000 homes, businesses and other buildings in the city were without power.
A fox or small coyote crosses Plano Road between cars moving through the Spring Creek Nature Area as a second winter storm brought more snow and continued freezing temperatures to North Texas on Feb. 16.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer)
Record-low temperatures during last month’s winter storm led to record-breaking response numbers in Richardson, according to statistics presented during Monday’s city council meeting.
At the height of the power crisis, and as faucets ran dry, Travis County officials reached across the border for drinking water.
A half-million bottles arrived in Austin last week from a beverage company 400 miles away in Monterrey, Mexico, and have since been handed out at water stations throughout the county.
The international shipment to Austin came after Travis County Judge Andy Brown received the offer from a friend with ties to the company and as U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin, made urgent calls to federal customs officials to ensure the shipment had no trouble crossing the border in Laredo.