With the one year anniversary approaching since the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in El Paso County, we want to share stories of all the ways El Pasoans have changed. Although this year has ...
On Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott announced a near-complete reopening of the Texas economy. Looking at the COVID-19 data and analyzing the risks and benefits, I disagree with this position. Just as we are a month ...
El Paso’s COVID-19 vaccination effort is marked by glaring inequality, with about one in five first vaccines going to people in wealthier West El Paso ZIP codes, according to an El Paso Matters analysis of ...
By Patrick Svitek/Texas Tribune Gov. Greg Abbott announced Tuesday that he is ending Texas’ statewide mask mandate next week and will allowall businesses to operate at full capacity. “It is now time to open Texas 100%,” Abbott ...
University Medical Center is opening registration at 6 p.m. Tuesday for 4,000 first doses of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19. People qualified for current vaccination under Texas Department of State Health Services vaccination groups 1A ...
El Paso leads Texas urban counties in getting people vaccinated against COVID-19, but it is lagging some of those counties when it comes to vaccinating one of the groups most vulnerable to complications and death ...
El Paso’s average weekly wage increased sharply as COVID-19 became entrenched and thousands of workers lost jobs, new federal data shows. Normally, a spike in average wages would be cause for celebration, but that’s not ...
Every time Gina Ramos looks at her teddy bear, she remembers her father. The bear is a deep indigo color, made from one of her father’s shirts. “It’s a blue shirt I had given him ...
In the medical unit at an El Paso Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, sick detainees use a shared water fountain to take their medications. “I’m sure that they clean (the drinking fountain), but I’ve never ...
Close to 113,000 El Pasoans have received their first shot in the 10 weeks since COVID-19 vaccines arrived in Texas, something El Paso leaders have celebrated. “While we’re still a long way from herd immunity, ...
The number of new weekly COVID-19 infections in El Paso County reached the lowest levels since the early days of fall, a hopeful indication that we may finally be emerging from one of the country’s ...
By JJ Martinez I wish that it were possible to write a proper rebuttal to Ryan James Solis’ essay “The ethics of prisoner vaccination.” As El Paso continues to struggle with COVID-19 and the disparities ...
By 7:30 a.m., cars were lined up around Horizon City’s Holy Spirit Church even though its food distribution site wouldn’t open for another 30 minutes. Virginia Marin and Martha Montellano took advantage of the wait ...
If we could imagine a line of all the Americans who desire the coronavirus vaccine, where in line are those who are imprisoned? Are they to make up the rear? After healthy and young Americans? ...
The state’s distribution system will slow El Paso’s COVID-19 vaccination progress this week. The slowdown comes as El Paso continues to lead the state’s urban counties in immunizing its population. As the vaccines roll out, ...
I feel fortunate to be among the El Pasoans who have received both the COVID-19 vaccines. But the process being used by the city at its vaccination hub near the airport is deeply flawed and ...
The Georgia runoffs were a must-win for President-elect Joe Biden. In a speech in Atlanta the day before the Jan. 5 election, Biden spoke with passion, noting that “unlike any time in (his) career one ...
Close to 100,000 El Pasoans have received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, and most will soon be due for their second shot. A recent change in the city’s scheduling process has created confusion ...
The question “ARE YOU OK?” sprawls across the back of an ink-drawn cicada in the new show opening at Galería Lincoln this week. It’s a fitting question for artists, nearly a year into the global ...
University Medical Center has refused to release demographic data of those it has vaccinated against COVID-19, making it impossible for the public to know whether the county-owned hospital is protecting El Paso’s most vulnerable residents. ...
El Paso continues to lead Texas urban counties in getting its population vaccinated against COVID-19 and we’ll cross a couple key milestones in coming days. The number of new COVID-19 cases in the past week ...
University Medical Center opened its online registration for several thousand doses of COVID-19 vaccine at noon Saturday. You can register to be vaccinated by UMC at the El Paso County Coliseum by clicking here. Based ...
By Kaitlyn Urenda-Culpepper Gov. Greg Abbott helped provide emergency medical care for Erika Calderon of McAllen after her 14-year-old son Emilian Sosa was forced to beg for her life in a letter to the governor ...
South El Paso residents may get a knock on the door from Beto O’Rourke Saturday. The former El Paso congressman is one of dozens of volunteers who will canvas the city’s 79901 ZIP code to ...
I didn’t go to a single movie theater in 2020. Not one. Partially, this is one of the costs of being a college student with no car and no theaters next to campus, but more ...
Climbing onto her blue Yamaha sports motorcycle and taking a long drive is one of the tools Ursula Martinez, a single mother of three, uses to cope with the periodic stress of supporting her children ...
I sit alone in an empty consultation room wearing my hand-made facemask. Everything has been sanitized, and two of three chairs have a red stop sign on them indicating they are not available. In front ...
COVID-19 continues to spread through El Paso County — which has the second-highest infection rate and 10th-highest death rate among U.S. urban centers — at a dangerously high level. We have had more than 3,300 ...
Update: University Medical Center reports that all 7,000 available reservations were made within 10 minutes. University Medical Center began accepting registrations for its latest batch of vaccines beginning at 12:30 p.m. today. The registration will ...
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El Paso hit a series of COVID-19 milestones — both encouraging and tragic — in the week that Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he was ending most COVID-19 restrictions in the state. The number of ...