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July 1, 2020
In Houston, a Surge in Covid-19 Hospital Admissions
In an article about the growing strains on area hospitals, health economics fellow Vivian Ho noted that Houston's public hospitals, Ben Taub and Lyndon B. Johnson, do not have the financial resources to convert random areas into ICUs. “The problem is that, of course, there are going to be more patients who are going to be going to Ben Taub” because the virus is disproportionately affecting Black and Latino people in low-income communities, and Ben Taub is traditionally the safety net for those without health insurance.
Read more at ProPublica. June 29, 2020
COVID-19 Could Crush Argentina's Shale Boom
“In 2015, there were about 100 oil rigs operating in Argentina, and by the first half of 2019, there were still around 60 rigs,” said energy fellow Francisco Monaldi. “Today, there are no rigs operating in the country. A catastrophe.”
Read more at MercoPress. June 26, 2020
Hotez: 'The Nightmare Scenario is Unfolding'
"Dr. Fauci said the next couple of weeks are crunch time, but I would say it's the next couple of days," said fellow Peter Hotez of the surge in coronavirus cases. "We've already let this thing go on for too long, and the cases [in Houston and Texas] are rising vertically." Hotez called for immediate action by state and local leaders to contain the virus.
Read more at the Houston Chronicle. June 24, 2020
Diplomacy and the Race to Sequence the Human Genome
Fellow Neal Lane, former science advisor to President Clinton, recalled how the White House helped broker a truce between two teams competing to sequence the human genome.
Learn more here in Nature. June 22, 2020
Jones to Track TX Legislature Voting Since 1836
“The data and analysis that emerge from this project will provide a unique window from which to observe important trends and events" in the political and social history of Texas, the country’s second-most-populous state, said political science fellow Mark Jones.
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