“This is a full-on wave almost like omicron,” Dr. Peter Hotez tweeted over the weekend, referring to the variant that sickened more than 800,000 people in a single day at its peak.
Here in Texas, more than 86,000 people have died from COVID. The pandemic is not over – but where does the public health fight against the virus go from here?
Federal funding for COVID testing is drying up. That's a big problem, says Epidemiologist Dr. Catherine Troisi (tro-ee-see) with the UT-Health School of Public Health. She said that when there were a few tests over two years ago, they couldn't tell what was happening in the community. Dr. Troisi fea