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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
The El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank hopes to continue a pilot program to deliver thousands of emergency food boxes to vulnerable families amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Since May, more than 2,000 food boxes have ...
More than 30 El Paso physicians took the knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds Friday morning, the length of time that Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin pressed his knee onto the neck of George ...
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 ...
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 ...
Editor’s note: All individuals are identified by first name to respect their anonymity. Recovery communities focused on addiction issues regularly meet around the world on a daily basis. During these times of social distancing, though, ...
Carmen Lugo cannot imagine being cooped up during the COVID-19 quarantine without her best friend. “She’s turned out to be the best little dog. She does everything but talk,” Lugo said. Bunny was a “ball ...
Metaphors of war are often used to describe COVID-19 nurses: they’re “our front lines,” combatting “an invisible enemy” in an existential global battle. But when nurses lack adequate personal protective equipment they can become not ...
Second in a series on implications of COVID-19 antibody testing. Previously: Antibody testing begins in El Paso. Next: Getting results from testing. El Paso hospitals in the fight to help heal patients with COVID-19 are ...
First in a series on implications of antibody testing. Next: Donating convalescent plasma. Wondering whether that nasty bug you had this winter was actually COVID-19? For many who have had mild illnesses in recent months ...
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Substance abuse issues, whether in the midst of COVID-19 or not, never subside. How treatment centers and addiction specialists approach clients and patients has been altered during these times. Dr. Fabrizzio A. Delgado, division chief ...
I’ve never fancied myself a “green thumb.” If anything, I would say I’ve had an indifferent thumb when it comes to gardening. Quite frankly if the novel coronavirus hadn’t reached a pandemic level I may ...
It goes without saying that a global pandemic is anxiety-inducing. Around the world, people are trying to understand the changing realities of life under the veil of COVID-19. We’re commiserating about it with our friends, ...
A leading international science and technology company will assist the El Paso region in efforts to slow COVID-19 infections and improve preparations for impacts of the disease, officials announced on Thursday. Battelle, a nonprofit company ...
This story has been updated with a statement released on Thursday, April 23, by Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare. El Paso hospitals are making preparations to offer some elective procedures for patients after Gov. Greg ...
UPDATE: El Paso health officials said on Wednesday, April 15, that the number of people infected at an El Paso health-care facility had grown to 32 from the 11 originally reported. The officials again wouldn’t ...
Movement around El Paso County has declined sharply in recent weeks as local government implemented emergency orders aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, according to mobility data released by Google. The tech giant published ...
With federal officials now recommending facemasks as a means of slowing the spread of COVID-19, El Paso designers and seamstresses have begun producing masks for friends and family, or to donate to the medical community. ...
El Paso parks will close at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday as city and county leaders take more stringent steps to control the spread of COVID-19. The new order was announced as the number of positive tests ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – Pharmacies in Juárez are facing a run by El Pasoans and other U.S. residents looking to buy hydroxychloroquine, one of the drugs the president has touted as a possible treatment for COVID-19. ...
El Paso health officials and their North Texas colleagues have shared information about possible coronavirus exposure during the Conference USA basketball tournaments in Frisco earlier this month. The men’s and women’s basketball teams played in ...
If you have a cough, fever, or shortness of breath, how can you tell if you’ve got COVID-19, a common cold, the ordinary flu, or a bad case of worry? Should you get tested? When ...
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Several weeks ago, when the COVID-19 crisis seemed so far away from home, I walked into Walgreen’s and came to a customer by a shopping cart full of toilet paper. She took me aside and ...