Mass testing at El Paso County jails has revealed 174 COVID-19 cases among inmates, Sheriff Richard Wiles said Monday. The sheriff said 155 inmates at the Downtown jail have tested positive, along with 19 at ...
El Paso’s COVID-19 crisis reached alarming levels in the past week, shattering the record for new cases and reporting 200 COVID-19 patients in hospitals for the first time. The number of COVID-19 infections reported in ...
El Paso County for the first time has gone over 1,000 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases in a week, with two days in the week remaining. COVID-19 cases requiring hospital care and treatment in intensive care ...
Hospital housekeeping staff take on similar levels of risk as other front-line health-care workers, but seldom receive the same level of community praise for their work. Environmental services staff, the people who ensure hospitals are ...
Students and instructors who are involved with El Paso-area career and technical education courses have had to change their approaches to course work in light of schools and laboratories dealing with COVID-19 restrictions. Career and ...
Forty inmates and five detention officers have tested positive in recent days for COVID-19 at El Paso’s two county jails. Sheriff Richard Wiles said the infections appear to be happening in the community. “All of ...
El Paso County reached new highs for weekly COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations last week, creating a deepening public health crisis. Here’s our weekly look at El Paso’s data. Young adults People in their 20s and ...
El Paso County reported 233 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, a new single-day high that indicates a deepening public health crisis. The number of people hospitalized with effects of the novel coronavirus also is nearing ...
El Paso County reported 175 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the week’s total through five days to 644. That’s the highest weekly number ever for El Paso. El Paso, which had never previously had ...
As El Paso businesses and activities have reopened during the continued spread of COVID-19, Dr. Armando Meza, chief of infectious diseases at Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso, sheds light on how to cautiously navigate ...
The frantic phone calls came in a cluster. In less than 24 hours multiple women reached out to me from inside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in El Paso. They expressed a mix ...
A nursery melody plays throughout the halls of Providence Memorial Hospital whenever a baby is born. It can be a jarring reminder at the bedside of a sick or dying patient: life is still happening, ...
El Paso had one of its worst weeks since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with a high in reported deaths, hospitalizations beginning to rise after more than two weeks of decline, and the number of new ...
The El Paso County Elections office has undertaken significant steps to promote safety during upcoming local elections, including added precautions for COVID-19 prevention. Competing statewide rulings regarding voting by mail and conflict over mail-in ballot ...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires nursing homes to provide weekly updates on the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths among residents and staff. The most recent weekly update, through June 7, ...
While El Paso hasn’t had any reported cases of a rare multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID-19, health experts advise parents to be on the lookout for related symptoms. Dr. Gilbert Handal, a ...
El Paso is seeing some positive indicators with COVID-19 as hospitalization numbers have shown a slow but consistent decline over the past two weeks. The number of new reported deaths was a five week low. ...
El Paso’s sports scene, as in other cities across the United States, has taken a backseat because of the COVID-19 outbreak. The El Paso Locomotive, though, is getting ready to get back in action. It’s ...
A West-Central El Paso nursing home that has had 126 COVID-19 cases, including two deaths, failed to provide adequate personal protective equipment to staff in the weeks leading up to the outbreak, employees say. Their ...
Our weekly update on COVID-19 data is below, but first we want to offer some concerns about the data as it is released by the city government. On Thursday, the city announced 197 new COVID-19 ...
El Paso hospitals and physicians, looking for a delicate balance between social distancing, patient care and maintaining their personal protective equipment supply, are tapping into the power of telemedicine during the COVID-19 outbreak. Nationally, according ...
An entire El Paso family contracted COVID-19. Now on the road to recovery, they have a message of warning for El Pasoans growing lax as Texas reopens. “The scary thing about this virus is that ...
A dramatic decline in visits to emergency rooms has health officials worried that El Pasoans are not seeking the care they need for fear of contracting COVID-19. Delaying care could have dire consequences. Officials at ...
As testing increases in El Paso, contact tracing is the next critical step to prevent the spread of COVID-19. On the border, those close contacts can include relatives, friends and coworkers in two countries. “This ...
Officials at a West-Central El Paso nursing home confirmed a COVID-19 outbreak but aren’t disclosing how many residents and employees have been affected. Twelve residents and an unspecified number of employees tested positive in an ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is rolling out a series of programs to support food producers whose operations have been disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but small food producers may be falling through the cracks. ...
There may never be a clear answer as to why El Pasoans cleared store shelves of toilet paper weeks before the first reported case of COVID-19 hit the borderland, an expert says.. Ten weeks into ...
This story has been updated with COVID-19 case reports as of Monday, May 25. A surge in COVID-19 cases in West-Central El Paso’s 79902 ZIP code may be concentrated at the Mountain View Health and ...
By Ruby Montana The dispositional optimist in me tends to believe that most people are inherently good and capable of reason in matters of morality, politics, and especially life and death. However, that optimism has ...
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CIUDAD JUAREZ — The sounds in the gym are like those you’d hear anywhere. The instructor of the class shouts directions and encouragement and counts reps out loud. The 15 people arranged in a circle ...