Around 1.3 Billion People Worldwide Don’t Want the COVID-19 Vaccine: Gallup Poll
Around 1.3 billion people worldwide said that they will not get a COVID-19 vaccine if it became available at no cost, according to a Gallup poll taken in the last six months of 2020 and released Monday.
The 1.3 billion was a combination of 29 percent, or around three in 10 adults, worldwide who refused to be vaccinated, and another 3 percent who were undecided or refused to answer.
The rollout of the vaccines may be more challenging in certain countries, where more than 50 percent of people in 20 countries and areas said that they were unwilling to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.
Texas AG Ken Paxton denies rift with Gov. Abbott, despite NYT report
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With the FBI investigating Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for possible corruption charges, it has been unclear whether Texas Republicans in statewide office will continue to support Paxton as he seeks re-election in 2022, or find a new candidate to back who doesn’t have all that baggage.
Paxton, who has maintained his innocence, suggested in an interview with the New York Times this week that he does not have the support Gov. Greg Abbott, though he promptly denied making the statement in a tweet Tuesday, hours after the Times story posted.
People being monitored for symptoms after receiving their COVID-19 vaccine at the Delco Activity Center on March 13, 2021, in Austin. Credit: Sergio Flores for The Texas Tribune
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Texas voters are feeling safer about being out in public, and better about getting COVID-19 vaccines, but a majority of the state’s voters still consider the coronavirus a “significant crisis,” according to a new University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.
In the first UT/TT Poll of the pandemic, conducted a year ago, 63% of Texans said they were “only leaving my residence when I absolutely have to.” That has fallen to 21%; in the current poll, 33% said they were “living normally, coming and going as usual,” and another 44% said they are still leaving home, “but being careful when I do.” The majority of Democrats, 55%, were in that last group, while 55% of Republ
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By large margins, the Texas House passed two bills this week that would create a less punitive legal environment for possession of recreational marijuana and allow more Texans to participate in the state’s medical marijuana program.