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A healthcare worker holds a vial of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (Photo: Reuters/Mike Segar)
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HOUSTON: A grand jury on Wednesday (Jun 30) declined to indict a former Houston-area health department doctor who was accused of stealing nine doses of COVID-19 vaccine from a damaged vial and administering them to family and friends.
Prosecutors had alleged that Dr Hasan Gokal, who worked for Harris County Public Health, stole a vial of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine while working at a vaccination site at a suburban Houston park on Dec 29.
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Montgomery: Summer school teachers in Montgomery Public Schools are getting a bump in pay. The district has increased teacher wages from $25 to $50 an hour to get more teachers in the classrooms to handle an increase of students this summer, WSFA-TV reported. Superintendent Ann Roy Moore and the school board also are looking ahead to the upcoming school year. They’re planning to go back to face-to-face learning full-time. “We found that children don’t do as well virtually in most cases as they do face-to-face with a nurturing teacher in that environment,” Moore said. She said that virtual learning will be used on an as-needed basis.
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