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    <text>U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona announces that the Biden administration offer financial help to schools who defy mask mandate bans imposed by Florida governor Ron DeSantis and Texas governor Greg Abbott. Furthermore, the Biden administration criticized DeSantis and Abbott for banning schools from imposing masks. </text>
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      <text>Texas Governor Greg Abbott lifts the statewide mask requirement and allows businesses to open 100% capacity from March 10. </text>
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    <text>Texas Governor Greg Abbott lifts the statewide mask requirement and allows businesses to open at 100% capacity beginning March 10. </text>
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      <text>Catalonia reports their first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from a British resident who travelled to that region. </text>
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      <text>Pennsylvania reports its first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a resident of Dauphin County who traveled internationally. </text>
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      <text>Texas health officials reports their first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from a resident of Harris County with no travel history. </text>
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      <text>Pennsylvania reports their first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from a resident of Dauphin County who traveled internationally. </text>
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      <text>Catalonia reports the first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from a British resident in that region. </text>
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      <text>Pennsylvania reports the first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from a resident in Dauphin County who traveled internationally prior to the diagnosis. </text>
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      <text>Texas health officials reports the first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from a resident in Harris County that had a no travel history. </text>
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      <text>Pennsylvania reports the first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 from a resident in Dauphin County that had a international exposure and tested positive. </text>
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    <text>Texas health officials report the state's first case of a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a resident of Harris County with no travel history. </text>
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    <text>President Donald Trump hosts an Operation Warp Speed vaccine summit. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, and Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards attend the event. </text>
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    <text>Texas surpasses 20,000 total confirmed deaths from COVID-19 and becomes the state with the second-highest number of reported deaths in the United States, behind only New York. </text>
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    <text>Texas Governor Greg Abbott announces that the state is expected to deploy resources to Lubbock and El Paso to help combat the spread of COVID-19. </text>
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    <text>Texas surpasses one million confirmed cases of COVID-19, becomes the first state in the US and world's first subnational to surpass that milestone. </text>
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    <text>Military medics are deployed to hospitals in Texas and California as cases surge. </text>
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    <text>Greg Abbott, the Governor of the US state of Texas, declares a disaster in 31 counties due to floods which have claimed several lives in recent days. </text>
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    <text>Texas Governor Greg Abbott declares nine counties in the southeastern part of the state disaster areas. </text>
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  <text>Multiple appeal courts in Texas upholds the mask mandates imposed in Bexar, Dallas, Harris, and Travis counties in a effort to override Governor Greg Abbott's ban on mask mandates in schools. </text>
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