Coronavirus

Although vaccination has begun, this winter has been the deadliest season of the pandemic. The U.S. death toll jumped from 300,000 to 400,000 in just five weeks.

The Hays County Health Department will be given almost 2,000 doses from the state. Officials have promised a registration portal will go live once the county gets the shipment.

"[We’re] talking about thousands of people who are going to be in contact for six months. That represents a risk for a superspreading event," Dr. Mark Escott said.

Genetic sequencing helped county officials determine that a 20-year-old Dallas man was infected with the new variant of the virus.

The actions for Day 1 were laid out in a memo by his chief of staff. The president-elect will extend pauses on student loan payments and evictions, plus send an immigration bill to Congress.

The simple answer is we don’t really know yet.

Throughout the pandemic, Travis County has seen a relatively low number of positive cases in jails. That changed this week.

President-Elect Joe Biden shared details of how his administration hopes to tackle the country's public health crisis. It's an aggressive plan that he needs Congress to fund.

County officials hosted a Facebook Live on Friday to answer all too familiar questions and concerns about where to get a COVID-19 vaccine. But the county still maintains that without more vaccine from the state, there's not much they can do.

New rules and procedures by the Texas House of Representatives outlined what the 87th legislative session could look like in a pandemic.