“In California the homeless and prisoners are getting the vaccine before taxpayers,” Carolla wrote in a tweet. “It sounds like something out of Idiocracy. If that isn t the most California way of doing things I don t know what is.”
In California the homeless and prisoners are getting the vaccine before taxpayers. It sounds like something out of Idiocracy. If that isn t the most California way of doing things I don t know what is. Adam Carolla (@adamcarolla) March 1, 2021
Yet the decision to vaccinate the homeless and jail populations comes out of concern for the entire community, said Dr. Erin Carlson, an associate clinical professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Politics aside, Texas has not met the criteria for safe reopening because it hasn’t seen a decline in cases for two weeks, said Dr. Erin Carlson, an associate clinical professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington. Even though it’s optional to don a face covering, the evidence supporting mask-wearing hasn’t changed.
“The disease has not abated,” Carlson said. “The disease is not done with us just because we’re done with it.”
Some believe the timing of Abbott’s announcement is suspect. Conservatives speculate he may have tried to regain support following his dismal performance during last weekend’s presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Liberals, though, say Abbott wants to distract from his failure to manage the winter storm disaster.
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As the pandemic continues to wage war on North Texas, COVID-19 has become even more contagious. With case counts and deaths showing no signs of slowing down, a new development in disease prevention has emerged: double masking.
One mask may not be enough to keep from catching a more infectious COVID-19 variant, said Dr. Erin Carlson, an associate clinical professor in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington.
“When you have something that’s that transmissible, now that gap in the mask could be an issue,” Carlson said. “It wasn’t necessarily an issue before, but now we know that we can likely contract the virus by having been exposed to a smaller amount of the virus.”
The COVID-19 UK variant, SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7, has been found in Dallas. The first case in Texas of the mutated virus first identified in the United Kingdom was reported in Harris County earlier this month.
“This is now the third identified case in Texas, and we can assume there are more cases in our community due to the nature of this variant and how quickly it spreads,” Dr. Philip Huang, Dallas County Health and Human Services director, said in a press release.
The individual identified as having been infected by the B.1.1.7 variant is a Dallas man in his 20s with no recent history of travel outside the U.S. He is in stable condition, isolated, and DCHHS epidemiologists are conducting an investigation to identify and notify others who came in close contact with him. In a press release, DCHHS said it found the infection was caused by the variant through the results of genetic sequencing.