This story has been updated with data through Saturday, Nov. 27. El Paso County is seeing another surge in cases of COVID-19 this month with the El Paso Department of Public Health reporting more than ...
This story has been updated with data as of Saturday, Nov. 20. El Paso children ages 5 to 11 are being vaccinated against COVID-19 at the highest rate among Texas’ largest counties. As of Saturday, ...
After months of waiting, children ages 5 to 11 can now be vaccinated against COVID-19. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for emergency use for the age group on Nov. ...
El Paso County officials may put off the full reopening of its senior centers after a spike in COVID-19 cases among El Pasoans ages 60 and older. El Paso County COVID-19 data shows 304 new ...
UPDATE Oct. 31, 8:20 p.m.: This story has been updated with data through Oct. 30. The COVID-19 situation in El Paso is … complicated. The good news is that El Paso and other border counties ...
The mass expulsion of Haitian migrants in late September put increased attention on the Biden administration’s use of a contentious Trump-era practice — the rapid expulsion of migrants through Title 42, a provision of public ...
The impact of COVID-19’s first 8½ months is evident in two basic numbers: deaths and births among El Paso County residents in 2020. El Paso County had never had a year in which more than ...
Update 3:20 p.m., Oct. 9: This story has been updated to include data through Friday, Oct. 8. An 18% increase in COVID-19 infections over the past week has pushed El Paso to a “high” rate ...
Update Oct. 5, 3:30 p.m: This story was updated to reflect EPISD’s decision not to file a misdemeanor charge against the 17-year-old student who was arrested at Monday’s meeting. El Paso’s largest school district will ...
Update 3:50 p.m. Oct. 1: This story has been updated with information from area schools El Paso’s mandate requiring masks in indoor spaces, including schools, was ended on Thursday by the 8th Court of Appeals. ...
The city of El Paso is now offering Pfizer booster shots to certain groups after the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved giving an extra dose for greater protection ...
In the months after being hospitalized for COVID-19, Leonor Terrazas suffered headaches, joint pain and body chills. She was suddenly forgetful and struggled with balance. The long list of symptoms finally made sense when her ...
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso is offering COVID-19 booster shots to adults this weekend in an effort to use 1,200 Pfizer doses set to expire at the end of the month. People ...
Esperanza Para Todos on the outskirts of Ciudad Juárez needs more beds. It needs portable toilets and showers, too. Like many of the shelters in Ciudad Juárez, Esperanza Para Todos is straining to keep up ...
By Karen Brooks Harper/The Texas Tribune El Paso resident Carlos Martinez was relieved in June when the number of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths were dropping in his community. Martinez, 25, started going to restaurants for ...
Correction: This story has been updated to clarify that the temporary injunction applies to Dr. Hector Ocaranza’s original county-wide indoor mask mandate. El Paso’s universal indoor face mask mandate can be reinstated, a judge ruled ...
A divided Texas 8th Court of Appeals struck down much of El Paso’s indoor mask mandate Friday, but left it intact for schools and city buildings. Public school students, teachers and staff will continue to ...
Instead of meeting his mom in the car pick-up line when Horizon Middle School let out Tuesday afternoon, Robert Beard waited for her in the cafeteria. The eighth-grader was there to get his second dose ...
The Texas Supreme Court on Thursday struck down — at least temporarily — San Antonio’s mask mandate for school districts and government buildings. The high court ruling has no impact on El Paso because the ...
El Paso Community College will require students and staff to follow local mask mandates and will enlist campus police to enforce the policy if necessary, officials said. The announcement was made by college President William ...
This story has been updated with data through Saturday, Aug. 21. The current debate over COVID-19 and steps to slow its spread can be confusing. But by focusing on a few key data points, we ...
In an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 among its student body, the University of Texas at El Paso will provide financial compensation to students who get vaccinated. The effort begins next week and ...
El Paso’s two largest school districts will follow an indoor mask mandate from the county health authority, the El Paso and Socorro school boards decided Tuesday night. The El Paso Independent School District’s Board of ...
El Paso health authority Dr. Hector Ocaranza said on Monday he would issue an order requiring masks in indoor settings, including schools. The City Council voted 5-3 to approve a motion to join legal challenges ...
Updated 9:55 p.m. Aug. 10 The Socorro Independent School District school board took no vote Tuesday evening on a face mask policy, as other Texas districts push back against the governor’s order barring schools from ...
One of El Paso’s largest food distribution sites will close and others will reduce hours despite the amplified need for food due to the pandemic, officials said, citing a lack of manpower. “We’re still able ...
El Paso public school students are back on campuses after months of virtual instruction, a return that coincided with a rise in coronavirus cases in El Paso. The delta variant is driving Texas’ case surge, ...
El Paso County now has a “substantial” risk of community spread of COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports, meaning people are advised to wear masks in indoor settings, even if they are ...
Two El Paso-area Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities are seeing new large outbreaks in COVID-19 cases among detained migrants. As of July 21, El Paso Service Processing Center had 75 current confirmed cases and ...
City and county leaders urged more El Pasoans to get vaccinated against COVID-19 as cases climb and the threat of the latest variant of the disease looms. Of the 251 positive cases reported from July ...
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