Why was Texas unable to stop a second COVID surge months in the making? FacebookTwitterEmail 1of5 Memorial Hermann Hospital RN Jacqueline Uwanda prepares to enter a COVID patient's room inside a 38-bed ICU treating mostly COVID patients, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021, in Houston's Texas Medical Center.Mark Mulligan, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 2of5A "Bar Open" sign lights the way to a bar along Main Street on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in downtown Houston.Mark Mulligan/Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less 3of5 4of5 People hangout at a patio of a bar on Holman Street Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in Houston.Yi-Chin Lee, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less