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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The race and ethnicity of 90.6% of the people inoculated in El Paso County is unknown to the Texas Department of State Health Services, the state agency tasked with distributing the COVID-19 vaccine. The lack ...
By the time Penny Andersen pulled up the University Medical Center of El Paso’s website on her smartphone Saturday, online registration for the COVID-19 vaccine had closed. It was 12:44 p.m., just 14 minutes after ...
The more contagious variant of COVID-19 will likely reach El Paso — which could send the city toward another deadly surge in cases and hospitalizations, medical experts say. More contagious COVID-19 variants, while not proven ...
Updated 5:10 p.m. Feb 26.: Revised with additional information. Texas became the first state Jan. 14 to administer more than 1 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine, one month after it received its first vaccine shipment. ...
With the onset of winter and cooler weather driving many El Pasoans indoors amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an infectious disease expert answers key Q:s about what people should keep in mind to protect themselves from ...
Miguel Reveles, a 26-year-old critical care nurse at University Medical Center’s intensive care unit, looks forward to working on the holidays. He worked on Thanksgiving this year, and is scheduled to work on Christmas too. ...
Three El Paso nonprofit organizations are receiving $34 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, part of $4.2 billion she is giving to 384 groups nationally. El Pasoans Fighting Hunger, the United Way of El Paso County ...
Lorena Montoya, like thousands of El Pasoans facing financial hardships during the COVID-19 pandemic, has been relying on the El Pasoans Fighting Hunger Food Bank to help feed her family. Montoya, who cleans houses for ...
El Paso Matters is one of 64 local news organizations nationwide selected to host a Report for America corps member for the next two years. The journalist hired for the position will report on issues ...
By Mark Lusk The pandemic that is raging through the United States is killing nearly one American a minute. With no unified or coherent public health response at the national level, we can expect that ...
As El Paso’s COVID-19 crisis continues, an emergency medicine expert warns hospitals may run out of space to treat those affected by the pandemic. State and federal agencies have sent a wave of medical personnel ...
By Tom Laign It’s my pleasure to serve as president for The Arc of El Paso, where the recent surge in COVID-19 cases has given us reason to pause our activities as we re-evaluate the ...
An ICU nurse left a grueling shift treating COVID-19 patients and was dismayed at what she saw as she drove through El Paso — full parking lots at shopping centers. “Does everyone need to see ...
By Dr. Juan Escobar As a practicing cardiologist in El Paso, I frequently encounter patients who confide in me that they are unable to afford the medications that I or other treating physicians prescribe for ...
As El Paso is facing the worst COVID-19 outbreak among major U.S. cities and with the flu season looming, a local infectious disease expert is urging the community to get the flu vaccine by this ...
Valentine’s Day has been forever changed for El Pasoan Norma Lowry, who was diagnosed with breast cancer on that date this year. The 36-year-old Army veteran and mother of two did not have a history ...
Public health officials said El Paso recorded its 500th death due to COVID-19 on Wednesday. That would make the novel coronavirus the second or third leading cause of death for El Pasoans, based on prior ...
Deaths by suicide among adults have declined during the COVID-19 pandemic in El Paso, but mental health experts are concerned at a rise in suicide attempts. Not only have attempts at suicide for adults increased ...
Although COVID-19 is the concern for many parents as children prepare to return to classrooms in the coming weeks, the threat of influenza also looms, an El Paso pediatrician says. Unlike the novel coronavirus, a ...
Hospice care agencies have had to adjust their employees’ and volunteers’ work schedules and services with the COVID-19 pandemic hitting the border region. People in the latter days of their lives receive care, compassion, and ...
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