Forty-two percent of Americans say they're unlikely to get a COVID-19 vaccine. To end the pandemic, how do we persuade them? Tips from Texas A&M researcher Lu Tang.

Read stories by Lisa Gray and connect with her on Twitter or Facebook. Have questions, comments or suggestions? Want a sticker? Send Lisa an email. 

Forty-two percent of Americans say they're unlikely to get a COVID-19 vaccine. To end the pandemic, how do we persuade them? Tips from Texas A&amp;M researcher Lu Tang.
Read stories by <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/lisa-gray/">Lisa Gray</a> and connect with her on <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaGray_HouTX">Twitter</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lisa.gray.94402">Facebook</a>. Have questions, comments or suggestions? Want a sticker? Send Lisa an <a href="mailto:%20lisa.gray@chron.com">email</a>.&nbsp;

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Daily insights from Houston Chronicle journalists and local experts about the pandemic&rsquo;s impact on Texas health, business, politics, education, religion, lifestyle, culture and more.

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How to talk about vaccines so people will listen

A spike in COVID-19 cases combined with the holidays makes for an extraordinary amount of stress. For ways to deal with it, Lisa called Alejandro Chaoul, an expert on the therapeutic effects of meditation and Tibetan yoga. They spoke with Chaoul sitting cross-legged on the floor of his wife’s family’s house in Costa Rica, where the family was quarantining. They discuss mindful ways to fight sleeplessness, loneliness and anxiety.

But first, as promised, a surprise for Christmas: Chronicle Op/Ed editor Raj Mankad talks with Houston singer-songwriter Glenna Bell about her 2008 Christmas song Be my Valentine (on Christmas) and how its hopeful-yet-melancholy vibe feels just right for Raj at the close of 2020.

Read stories by Lisa Gray and connect with her on Twitter or Facebook. Questions, comments or suggestions? Want a sticker? Send Lisa an email. 

Listen to Glenna Bell's music on Spotify.

Here's a list of Alejandro Chaoul's upcoming classes and meditation sessions. And here's where you can stream a free half-hour "Meditation for Crisis and Uncertainty" video with Ale, courtesy Rice University's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies.

A spike in COVID-19 cases combined with the holidays makes for an extraordinary amount of stress. For ways to deal with it, Lisa called Alejandro Chaoul, an expert on the therapeutic effects of meditation and Tibetan yoga. They spoke with Chaoul sitting cross-legged on the floor of his wife&rsquo;s family&rsquo;s house in Costa Rica, where the family was quarantining. They discuss mindful ways to fight sleeplessness, loneliness and anxiety.
But first, as promised, a surprise for Christmas: Chronicle Op/Ed editor Raj Mankad talks with Houston singer-songwriter Glenna Bell about her 2008 Christmas song Be my Valentine (on Christmas)&nbsp;and how its hopeful-yet-melancholy vibe feels just right for Raj at the close of 2020.
Read stories by <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/lisa-gray/">Lisa Gray</a> and connect with her on <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaGray_HouTX">Twitter</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lisa.gray.94402">Facebook</a>. Questions, comments or suggestions? Want a sticker? Send Lisa an <a href="mailto:%20lisa.gray@chron.com">email</a>.&nbsp; Listen to Glenna Bell's music on <a href="https://open.spotify.com/artist/5eVAeY5IQPxRYDTIFqAWdi?si=oxGwpRmFRl2GryuimI276g">Spotify</a>.
Here's a list of&nbsp;<a href="https://alechaoul.com/" data-stringify-link="https://alechaoul.com/" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Alejandro Chaoul's upcoming classes</a>&nbsp;and meditation sessions. And here's where you can stream a&nbsp;<a href="https://glasscock-info.rice.edu/openrice/author/alejandro-chaoul-ph-d" data-stringify-link="https://glasscock-info.rice.edu/openrice/author/alejandro-chaoul-ph-d" data-sk="tooltip_parent">free half-hour "Meditation for Crisis and Uncertainty"</a> video with Ale, courtesy Rice University's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies.

"Will you say that you're all mine for Christmas?": Music, melancholy and meditation

This episode was available Friday, 12/11, on the Q&A with Lisa Gray feed. Want to get next Friday's episode delivered pronto to your podcast app? Click here to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or search your favorite player.

New vaccines are on the horizon — but is it too late to blunt the pandemic’s winter surge? Might Houston fare better than the rest of Texas? And why could a traditional-method vaccine be better for kids?

Lisa checks in with vaccine researcher Peter Hotez. He’s a professor and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and he co-directs the Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, where his lab team is developing COVID-19 vaccines.

Read stories by Lisa Gray and connect with her on Twitter or Facebook. Have questions, comments or suggestions? Want a sticker? Send Lisa an email. 

 

This episode was available Friday, 12/11, on the Q&amp;A with Lisa Gray feed. Want to get next Friday's episode delivered pronto to your podcast app? Click here to subscribe on <a href="https://apple.co/35NJmg1">Apple Podcasts,</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/11Phb2VyIIKF6ThRLMCyOs?si=Rryjdi_ASCCkDPU4X4GB8Q">Spotify</a> or search your favorite player.
New vaccines are on the horizon &mdash; but is it too late to blunt the pandemic&rsquo;s winter surge? Might Houston fare better than the rest of Texas? And why could a traditional-method vaccine be better for kids?
Lisa checks in with vaccine researcher Peter Hotez. He&rsquo;s a professor and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, and he co-directs the Texas Children&rsquo;s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, where his lab team is developing COVID-19 vaccines.
Read stories by <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/author/lisa-gray/">Lisa Gray</a> and connect with her on <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaGray_HouTX">Twitter</a> or <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lisa.gray.94402">Facebook</a>. Have questions, comments or suggestions? Want a sticker? Send Lisa an <a href="mailto:%20lisa.gray@chron.com">email</a>.&nbsp;
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Hotez: Despite vaccines on the horizon, ‘I think we’re in for it’

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The Army Corps of Engineers’s latest ideas on how to reduce flooding along Buffalo Bayou has riled many Houston residents who were expecting a more modern solution to flooding than the concrete channelizing of Houston's bayous implemented in past decades. Lisa talks with Jim Blackburn, an environmental lawyer and co-director of the storm-studying SSPEED Center at Rice University.

Read: Digging Buffalo Bayou deeper? Houstonians up in arms over Army Corps' 'old-fashioned' flood fixes.

Connect with Lisa Gray on Twitter and Facebook. 

More: SSPEED Center — Severe Storm Prediction, Education, & Evacuation from Disasters Center

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The Army Corps of Engineers&rsquo;s latest ideas on how to reduce flooding along Buffalo Bayou has riled many Houston residents who were expecting a more modern solution to flooding than the concrete channelizing of Houston's bayous implemented in past decades. Lisa talks with Jim Blackburn, an environmental lawyer and co-director of the storm-studying SSPEED Center at Rice University.
Read: <a href="https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/environment/article/Army-Corps-proposals-to-fix-Buffalo-Bayou-flood-15725805.php">Digging Buffalo Bayou deeper? Houstonians up in arms over Army Corps' 'old-fashioned' flood fixes.</a>
Connect with Lisa Gray on <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaGray_HouTX">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lisa.gray.94402">Facebook</a>.&nbsp;
More: <a href="https://www.sspeed.rice.edu/">SSPEED Center</a> &mdash; Severe Storm Prediction, Education, &amp; Evacuation from Disasters Center

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