Turner: Nearly 1 in 7 Houstonians have been infected with coronavirus
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Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner leads a press conference at the Houston City Hall, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, about the upcoming arrival of COVID-19 vaccines to Houston’s hospitals and about an antibody testing survey that reveled that one in seven Houstonians have been infected with the coronavirus.Marie D. De Jesús, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
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Vasanthi Avadhanula, Ph.D, shows Dr. Pedro Piedra, coronavirus test results in a lab on Thursday, April 9, 2020 at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. BCM is working on an experimental therapy transfusing the blood plasma of people who’ve recovered from COVID-19 into patients fighting the disease. Baylor and the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center are partnering to make the potentially therapeutic plasma available to hospitals that get the Food and Drug Administration’s permission to transfuse it into pati