By Karen Cano/La Verdad This story was originally published in Spanish by La Verdad. Due to her age and the initial letter of her last name, Sonia Campos was assigned the morning schedule to receive ...
As more El Pasoans receive their COVID-19 vaccines, questions remain about what activities are safe to participate in following the two-week waiting period after the second doses. El Paso Matters asked local infectious disease experts ...
For the first time in her life, Giselle Paredes needs help feeding her family. “Many times I don’t have something to cook so I’m like, ‘what am I going to do?’” Paredes said. “They’re hungry ...
The El Paso County Sheriff’s Department has established three crisis intervention teams to help keep El Pasoans dealing with mental health emergencies away from jail. Crisis intervention teams are designed to improve law enforcement officers’ ...
Legislation that would categorize gender-affirming care for trans children as “child abuse” was discussed in a Texas Senate committee hearing Monday, drawing a sharp rebuke from an El Pasoan parent. “I’m not an abuser, I’m ...
On a clear Sunday morning, sisters Josey and Christina “Teeny” Pickett met up at UTEP’s Centennial Plaza to embark on a strenuous masked run. Although the sisters live on opposite sides of El Paso, training ...
In the past year, telehealth has become the new norm for wide-ranging medical practices. Telehealth was around long before the COVID-19 pandemic, but when the first El Paso COVID-19 case was confirmed on March 13, ...
When Mexico’s president traveled to the White House last summer, U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar urged President Donald Trump to put discussion of a binational coronavirus response plan at the top of the agenda. But that ...
Before COVID-19 reached the Borderland and El Pasoans’ lives were turned upside down, mental health providers began anticipating what the pandemic’s impacts for the community could be. El Paso mental health experts braced for how ...
With two full years in operation, the El Paso Police Department’s Crisis Intervention Team has helped divert hundreds of El Pasoans dealing with a mental health crisis away from jail, but officials say gaps in ...
Christian Castro had a simple goal for his life: to “make people feel better.” Originally, he thought that goal could be achieved through comedy by making people laugh. “Laughter can make people forget their pain ...
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 12:45 p.m. May 4: Revised with additional information. Since Texas expanded vaccine eligibility in late March to anyone age 16 and older, demand for the vaccine has slowed. Many cities, including El Paso, are abandoning ...
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 ...
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By Sandra Nevárez García One in three! This is the number of youth, throughout the United States, who experience physical, sexual, and emotional abuse while in a dating relationship. These abusive relationships often are unseen ...