3301 News Items Found
October 1, 2020
President Trump Should be Hospitalized, Health Expert Says
Peter Hotez, one of Houston's experts on vaccines and a health fellow at the Baker Institute, believed President Donald Trump should be hospitalized after his positive test for Covid-19. Hotez also told ABC 13 News that "if he gets severely ill, especially a month before the election, that's a major national security issue."
Read more at ABC News September 30, 2020
How Covid-19 is Disproportionately Harming Latino Communities
"What we’re seeing really is the historic decimation among the Hispanic community by the virus,” said health policy fellow Peter Hotez during a virtual Congressional Hispanic Caucus briefing.
Read more at NBC News September 28, 2020
Texas Could Be Poised to Lead in Carbon Capture Technology
"If it's going to happen anywhere, it's going to happen in Texas," said Ken Medlock, senior director of the Center for Energy Studies about the possibility of developing carbon capture technology.
Medlock is the James A. Baker, III, and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics.
Read more at Platts Oil September 27, 2020
Secretary Baker's Statement on the Death of Sheikh Sabah
“Sheikh Sabah was an effective mediator for peace and stability in the Middle East and a passionate humanitarian whose wise leadership was inspirational," Secretary James A. Baker, III, said in a statement on the Emir of Kuwait's death.
Read more at the Baker Institute September 25, 2020
Why Online Voting Will Not Work
While the idea of an online election might seem appealing, "we simply don’t know how to build secure online voting yet,” said Dan Wallach, a Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar.
Read more at CNBC