Five years after Texas’ first COVID death, the state spends less on public health, vaccination rates have dropped and a distrust of authority has taken hold. Audio recording is automated for ...

Full Story By Eleanor Klibanoff, Graphics by Dan Keemahill and Yuriko Schumacher March 18, 2025 Five years after Texas’ first COVID death, the state spends less on public health, vaccination ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - Three years ago today, on March 17, 2020, Texas experienced its first COVID-19 death. This type of loss went on to impact thousands more, including Gabriel Resendez and his ...

In total, seven Texas counties achieved 100% vaccination for COVID by January 2023 — all near or along the Southern border. The COVID death toll resonated so deeply within the Hispanic community ...

In Texas, this politicized resistance created what Hotez calls the “great COVID tragedy,” the death of more than 40,000 people after vaccines became widely available, 85% of them unvaccinated.