Mexicans living in the U.S. will now be able to request a change to their gender identity on birth certificates. This comes as Mexico's foreign affairs ministry is allowing transgender people to receive amended birth certificates at any of their consulates in the U.S.
Mexicans living in the U.S. will now be able to request a change to their gender identity on birth certificates. This comes as Mexico's foreign affairs ministry is allowing transgender people to receive amended birth certificates at any of their consulates in the U.S.
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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.