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Today, Governor Greg Abbott announced that the State of Texas had prepared allocation plans to swiftly distribute medicines and vaccines that are now becoming available to treat COVID-19. Yesterday was the first day of many announcements in the coming weeks about the availability of medicines and vaccines to combat COVID-19. …

Over the last week, Texas has averaged 8,662 new confirmed cases per day, 29.9 for every 100,000 residents. Over the next year, this translates to around 3,200,000 and an estimated 16,000,000 infections, 54.5% of the population.

Texas reported 9,744 new cases and 42 deaths Monday. New patients are increasing in Texas college cities one week after Halloween.  

While Texas has averaged over 8,000 new cases over the last seven days, Sunday’s report was 5,929. Sunday’s are typically a lighter day for testing and information.

Texas again had the highest new case and death totals in the nation. It was on a day the country saw its highest new case total at over 120,000. The COVID Tracking Project also reports that Texas has the highest number of hospitalized patients out of all 50 states. Data shows that, …

Texas reported over 9,000 new COVID cases Wednesday and 126 deaths on the day the U.S. set a new one day record for new. Texas represented almost 10% of the new COVID in the U.S. Texas also led the nation in recent cases. The United States set a one-day record …

We have not finished with 2020, and there have been more background checks and guns sold than in all of 2019. Gun sales typically go up some in a presidential election year. Still, Robert Owens from Owen-Riggs firearm training service says the pandemic has caused an increase in crime, and …

Texas has surpassed California in recording the highest number of positive coronavirus tests in the U.S. so far. Florida came in third. A number equivalent to 3.2% of the Texas population has tested positive for COVID-19.  After conducting more than 8.3 million tests, more than 900,000 have come back positive. …

Police are trying to find out who shot and killed an SMU student over the weekend. It was at about 3:00 am Saturday when they found Robert Urrea shot to death at Jackson Street and South Harwood. He was from El Paso, where his parents say they had spoken to …