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AUSTIN - Governor Greg Abbott today held a roundtable discussion alongside healthcare professionals at Houston Methodist Hospital to highlight his legislative priorities to ensure a healthier future for the state of Texas. Following the roundtable, the Governor provided an update on the State’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts. The Governor was joined by Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) Chief Nim Kidd, Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) Commissioner John Hellerstedt, MD, Executive Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs of the University of Texas System John Zerwas, MD, and Houston Methodist President and CEO Marc Boom, MD.

Folks let me tell you something from a first-hand experience if you’ve never had Covid you are mighty lucky. I’ve had lots of surgeries, flu, etc. but never have I had the “rug jerked out from under me as that Covid did to me”, Weakest of the weakest I’ve ever been in my life, so take it from me, use every precaution you can to keep from having the mess. Went into the hospital on Christmas eve in Groesbeck and came out eight days later. I’m still trying to get my strength back but just have to take it one day at a time.

When Limestone County Judge Richard Duncan received a certified letter from Prairie Hill Wind Project, informing him that the Wind Farm would not pay the first tax payment of 2021, he was surprised