El Pasoans seeking a COVID-19 test can now access free rapid tests through the United States Postal Service’s website. Every residential address is eligible to receive four individual antigen tests as part of President Joe ...
Nichole Kruk entered her second trimester of pregnancy just as the pandemic spread across the globe in 2020. Unable to stay home, she worked a customer-facing job where for a while, the only personal protective ...
As COVID-19 surges in El Paso — with a record high 2,294 new cases reported by the city on Friday — the impact on hospital staffing levels is unclear. Providing few details about the number ...
6:05 p.m. Jan. 11: This story has been updated with information on current staffing levels and demand at El Paso’s COVID-19 testing sites. The parking lot is empty and lights are off at Savage Goods, ...
The omicron variant’s arrival in El Paso has brought the all-too-familiar questions of how to balance risk and quality of life in uncertain times. While there are still unanswered questions about this new COVID-19 variant, ...
Rising community spread of COVID-19 has begun to result in staffing shortages in El Paso testing facilities and other government functions. At the city’s COVID-19 testing megasites, 20% of staff are currently out sick with ...
El Paso County saw a fall surge of COVID-19 infections as the delta variant swept through the country. That surge produced our highest number of COVID-19 infections of 2021 — although the situation was not ...
The highly transmissible COVID-19 omicron variant — while not yet confirmed in El Paso — may already be in the area, local infectious disease experts said. Between updates to quarantine guidelines and rising questions about ...
In mid-December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration permanently lifted its requirement that patients take abortion-inducing drugs in the presence of a health care professional, clearing the way for patients to receive the medications by ...
El Paso is no longer one of the largest cities in the country without an abortion clinic. The city’s Planned Parenthood, which had stopped performing abortions at the start of the pandemic in 2020, again ...
Seizures of fentanyl by the Drug Enforcement Administration within the city of El Paso rose 456% between the fiscal years 2020 and 2021 — from 32 kilograms to 178 kilograms — and El Paso DEA ...
The Supreme Court on Friday ruled that abortion providers can continue to challenge Texas’ six-week abortion ban in lower courts but did not issue a temporary pause on Senate Bill 8. In an 8-1 decision, ...
One day after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that could put an end to Roe v. Wade, and three months after Texas’ six-week abortion ban became law, another anti-abortion measure ...
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, ...
At 34, Robin Krasne’s aunt died of breast cancer. Her father and grandfather died of brain cancer. For her uncle, it was pancreatic cancer. For her cousin, ovarian cancer. “I have way too much cancer in ...
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. ...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard two challenges on Monday to the Texas law that bans most abortions past six weeks and enlists private individuals as its enforcers. Two Trump-appointed justices who had initially allowed the ...
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 ...
For Selene Jiménez, the year-and-a-half since she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy has been the best part of her life. In March 2020, Jiménez, then 36, had already seen her gynecologist ...
Update 12:20 p.m., Oct. 26: This story has been updated with further comment from El Paso Independent School District. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott quietly signed legislation on Monday that bans transgender children from participating in ...
On most days, Michael Buchanan can be found hanging out on the sidewalk next door to Punto de Partida, the opioid crisis center on Yandell Street east of Downtown El Paso. The 65-year-old is in ...
Though Texas’ six-week abortion ban has triggered alarm and distress for abortion patients and providers throughout the state, in some ways, not much has changed for El Paso. Since Sept. 1, Senate Bill 8 has ...
Seizures of fentanyl and overdose deaths caused by the potent narcotic have skyrocketed in El Paso, as in much of the nation. But along with the rise in a very real public health crisis has ...
By Reese Oxner/The Texas Tribune The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday temporarily allowed Texas’ near-total abortion ban — the strictest in the nation — to again be enforced after freezing a federal judge’s temporary block of the ...
By Reese Oxner/Texas Tribune A federal judge temporarily blocked Texas’ near-total abortion ban Wednesday as part of a lawsuit the Biden administration launched against the state over its new law that bars abortions as early ...
When the nation’s most restrictive abortion ban took effect in Texas on Sept. 1, Perla Galindo was 1,700 miles from El Paso. In Seattle, the left-leaning city where she now lives, Galindo says many feel ...
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 ...
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 ...
By Verónica Martínez / La Verdad A decision by Mexico’s National Supreme Court of Justice that declares the criminalization of abortion in Mexico unconstitutional opens a new window for Borderland women, who for decades have ...
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