It’s been a busy and sometimes frustrating day at COVID testing sites with the holiday surge now leading to a surge in testing at many places.

A Harris County contract to conduct an outreach campaign to encourage COVID vaccinations was canceled in September, but the issue has come back to life in the form of grand jury subpoenas for every member of the Harris County Commission.

Harris County had a problem and a plan. The problem? Guaranteed vaccine hesitancy. The plan? To hire a company to do “targeted vaccine community outreach.”

The same questions are becoming more frequent, “Why didn’t you do this? Why didn’t you do that? Why didn’t you do this? I saw on TV that this is good,” said Dr. Joseph Varon of United Memorial Medical Center in North Houston.

The Texas Department of State Health Services said there have been “343 clinically severe vaccine breakthrough cases reported in Texas,” dating back to Feb. 8, 2020, the date the state of Texas started tracking them.

Researchers at the McGovern Medical School are studying blood samples from COVID patients to better understand the impact of the virus and long COVID symptoms.

The head of the World Health Organization is calling for a moratorium on administering booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines as a way to help ensure that doses are available in countries where few people have received their first shots.

A Harris County grand jury has declined to indict a Houston area doctor who was accused of stealing COVID-19 vaccines in December.

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted pretty much every facet of our lives, and the NFL was not exempt from that. Empty stadiums and greatly reduced crowds, players sitting out due to positive COVID tests, delayed games, and more.

As the United States has seen vaccination numbers rise and COVID-19 cases decline, many Americans might be feeling a desire to travel more.