This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe 64-year-old man staggered into United Memorial Medical Center’s emergency room on Monday, gravely ill. It is unknown when he became infected, though the doctors believe it was recent. An X-ray showed spider webs of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, coating both lungs, making them all but useless.By Thursday morning, his kidneys were failing. The staff was looking for next of kin.Death, it seemed, was moving from possible to likely in Room 409 of the hospital’s newly expanded COVID-19 unit.“I have a bad...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe 64-year-old man staggered into United Memorial Medical Center’s emergency room on Monday, gravely ill. It is unknown when he became infected, though the doctors believe it was recent. An X-ray showed spider webs of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, coating both lungs, making them all but useless.By Thursday morning, his kidneys were failing. The staff was looking for next of kin.Death, it seemed, was moving from possible to likely in Room 409 of the hospital’s newly expanded COVID-19 unit.“I have a bad...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThree weeks after it stood out as the urban exception to the state’s spiking COVID-19 crisis, the Houston region has begun seeing a significant increase in cases and hospitalizations.The upturn, which began two weeks ago and accelerated this week, comes a month after Gov. Greg Abbott began allowing businesses to reopen and a week and a half after the Memorial Day weekend, both of which health officials think led people to let their guard down and come into closer contact with others. The hike followed a roughly month-long plateau...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThree weeks after it stood out as the urban exception to the state’s spiking COVID-19 crisis, the Houston region has begun seeing a significant increase in cases and hospitalizations.The upturn, which began two weeks ago and accelerated this week, comes a month after Gov. Greg Abbott began allowing businesses to reopen and a week and a half after the Memorial Day weekend, both of which health officials think led people to let their guard down and come into closer contact with others. The hike followed a roughly month-long plateau...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe government’s official data on the coronavirus outbreak is startling: More than 4.6 million cases in the U.S. More than 440,000 in Texas. More than 70,000 in Harris County.But those numbers don’t include all positive COVID-19 patients.Texas, unlike 27 other states, excludes the results of increasingly popular, rapid COVID-19 tests from the numbers it reports publicly — obscuring the scope of the pandemic, records and interviews show. The antigen tests are used in doctor’s offices, hospitals and stand-alone clinics and deliver...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThe government’s official data on the coronavirus outbreak is startling: More than 4.6 million cases in the U.S. More than 440,000 in Texas. More than 70,000 in Harris County.But those numbers don’t include all positive COVID-19 patients.Texas, unlike 27 other states, excludes the results of increasingly popular, rapid COVID-19 tests from the numbers it reports publicly — obscuring the scope of the pandemic, records and interviews show. The antigen tests are used in doctor’s offices, hospitals and stand-alone clinics and deliver...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateTexas has failed to meet key criteria designed to guide the reopening of the state, even as Gov. Greg Abbott pushes to lift more public health restrictions, a Houston Chronicle analysis shows.Mark McClellan, one of the chief medical advisers on and a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, listed key criteria in late March for rolling back the reopening, including being unable to properly trace the source of new infections, a sustained rise in cases for five days or coronavirus patients overwhelming the hospital system.A...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateTexas has failed to meet key criteria designed to guide the reopening of the state, even as Gov. Greg Abbott pushes to lift more public health restrictions, a Houston Chronicle analysis shows.Mark McClellan, one of the chief medical advisers on and a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner, listed key criteria in late March for rolling back the reopening, including being unable to properly trace the source of new infections, a sustained rise in cases for five days or coronavirus patients overwhelming the hospital system.A...WW…