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Texas entered the COVID-19 pandemic 5 years in the past already at a drawback, with an unhealthy and uninsured inhabitants, an underfunded public well being system and workforce shortages unfold throughout the well being care system. Whereas some hoped the pandemic would possibly power enhancements, all of those long-standing points stay, or are worse, than earlier than.
Right now, Texas’ spending on public well being funding is worse than earlier than the pandemic. Vaccine hesitancy is surging. Native well being authorities have fewer instruments to guard their constituencies. Rising mistrust of science, experience and authority have unraveled the hard-earned classes from COVID.
Confronted with the most recent chook flu pressure and the resurrection of the once-eradicated measles illness, can the state and native leaders change the enduring legacy of COVID-19 earlier than the following pandemic ravages the state?
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