1/ Another story about the importance of public data during a crisis: COVID-19 outbreaks at nursing homes raise questions about transparency, safety of elderly residents: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Nursing-home-virus-outbreaks-raise-questions-15188668.php #coronavirus #hounews via @nickpowellchron, @taygoldenstein and @emfoxhall
Nursing home virus outbreaks raise questions about transparency, safety of elderly

When the news flashed on the television screen on April 2 about a coronavirus outbreak at a Texas City nursing home, Jessica Ticas immediately picked up the phone, panicked. Ticas’s grandmother,...

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Nursing-home-virus-outbreaks-raise-questions-15188668.php
2/ Texas health officials have been collecting reports of coronavirus outbreaks at nursing homes, where at least 18 people have died.

They haven't published the data: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/08/coronavirus-spreads-texas-nursing-homes-officials-withhold-details/ #covid19 #coronavirus via @TexasTribune
Coronavirus is spreading in Texas nursing homes. But the state won'...

Families and advocates for nursing home residents are calling on Texas officials to release the numbers and names of facilities where coronavirus infection has been reported, as other states have d...

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/08/coronavirus-spreads-texas-nursing-homes-officials-withhold-details/
3/ Until recently, Texas wasn't posting updates on how many coronavirus patients were using the state's limited supply of hospital beds.

Dozens of other states had been offering this information to the public for weeks:
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/texas-curve-covid-19-info-coronavirus-abbott-15179104.php #covid19
Texas is behind the curve on releasing timely information on the coronavirus. Here's why

Other states routinely publish updates on hospitalized coronavirus patients. Not Texas.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/texas-curve-covid-19-info-coronavirus-abbott-15179104.php
4/ In Houston, COVID-19 has killed a disproportionate number of African Americans.

But while other Texas counties have released demographic case data, including breakdowns by ZIP code, race and ethnicity, Houston and Harris County haven't.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/black-lives-suffer-worst-coronavirus-doctor-hou-15186952.php #covid19
Black Houstonians 'suffering worst consequences' of virus, but lack of data obscures full picture...

Details about how the coronavirus is affecting minorities remain hazy as local officials have yet to release a breakdown of cases by race and ethnicity.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/black-lives-suffer-worst-coronavirus-doctor-hou-15186952.php
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