Montgomery County health officials are contradicting their COVID experts, spreading misinformation
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Montgomery County Hospital District paramedic Larson Johnson talks with residents before administering a COVID-19 vaccine at Montgomery County’s first mass vaccination site at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021, in Conroe. The appointment-only site will run through Friday until the county’s allotted 2,000 vaccines have been exhausted.Jason Fochtman, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Georgette Whatley, chair of the Montgomery County Hospital District Board of Directors.courtesy of the Montgomery County Hospital DistrictShow MoreShow Less
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Brent Thor, of Conroe, member of the Montgomery County Hospital District Board of Directors.courtesy of the Montgomery County Hospital DistrictShow MoreShow Less
Montgomery County family seeks treatment for toddler who survived drowning
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As seen in April 2020, 2-year-old Preston Macks, of Grangerland, survived a drowning in May and now uses tubing to breath and consume foods as his parents raise money for his treatment and therapy.courtesy of Kayley Wooten
Recently, Montgomery County resident Kayley Wooten is seeing her 2-year-old, Preston Macks, begin to smile again. She often catches him grinning in his sleep.
Wooten and her family’s end-of-year wish is to afford the treatment and therapy needed for Preston to one day be the active boy he was before he drowned in May.
Local vaccinations begin
One regional health care system with initial allocations of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Texas Children s Hospital, began vaccinations for its employees Dec. 15. The hospital s The Woodlands and Energy Corridor campuses each received 975 doses each this week, while its main Houston campus received 3,900 doses. Among the first at the hospital to be vaccinated were Mark A. Wallace, the system s president and chief executive, and Dr. Peter Hotez, co-director of the Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development. Based on federal, state and leading academic guidance regarding vaccine allocation, we established a framework for the equitable allocation of COVID-19 vaccines that guides us in our distribution process, Wallace said in a statement. What we know as a medical community is that vaccination is one of the safest and most effective means we have to fight against preventable diseases. . We also know we must couple being vaccinated with the practices w
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Peter Hotez, co-director of Texas Children s Hospitals Center for Vaccine Development, poses for a photograph outside the lab Thursday, June 18, 2020, in Houston.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
New vaccines are on the horizon but is it too late to blunt the pandemic’s winter surge? Might Houston fare better than the rest of Texas? And why could a traditional-method vaccine be better for kids?
To answer these questions, we once again check in with vaccine researcher Peter Hotez, one of the country’s best explainers of COVID-19 science. He’s a professor and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and he co-directs the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, where his lab team is developing COVID-19 vaccines.
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