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  2020-06-05

  Appeals court tosses order that required face masks, hand sanitizer for inmates at geriatric Texas prison

  Two inmates filed suit in late March asking for better practices to protect them from covid. The judge sided with the inmates but by that time the Texas Department of Criminal Justice had already enacted similar protocols across the state, though many argue they are not followed. Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, is also quoted in this article saying, he "felons deserve personal protective equipment over frontline warriors." This is the same man that was quoted on new across the nation as saying that older people should be willing to die from Covid to keep the economy open for the benefit of their grandchildren.
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  06/02/2020

  Armelia Sani Oral History, 2020/06/02

  Interviewer, Christina Lefebvre, and narrator, Armelia Sani, discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Dr. Sani's primary care patients and the healthcare community.
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  2020-04-24

  Atypical symptoms caused by COVID-19 in seniors

  Because of the differences in age, it seems some seniors are presenting with atypical symptoms for COVID-19. This is resulting in some difficultly in detection and treatment. Some are being brushed off as not needing immediate medical care and only taken to be tested after a spouse insisted they be taken to the hospital. In the hospital they tested positive for the virus.