As El Paso continues to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, area groups and organizations are working together to make sure the homeless population receives proper care and support. The Opportunity Center for the Homeless, located ...
You’ve likely heard the term on the news as public health workers discuss COVID-19: contact tracing. Often discussed alongside testing, isolation, and quarantine, contact tracing is a common practice for people working in infectious disease ...
By Gabriela Minjáres and Itzel Ramírez/La Verdad This article was produced by La Verdad, an independent news organization in Ciudad Juarez that is collaborating with El Paso Matters on regional coverage. Rigoberto Tafoya Maqueda, a ...
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 ...
UPDATE: Four new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Tornillo’s 79853 ZIP code since this story was published, bringing the total as of Sunday to 12. That’s an infection rate of 26.9 per 10,000 people, almost ...
Women held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso are expressing growing concern after several detainees tested positive for COVID-19. ICE has confirmed five positive cases but the number of people exposed to the virus ...
Raul Rosales, a supervisor at a Lear Corporation maquiladora in Ciudad Juárez, died in an El Paso hospital of COVID-19 early Tuesday. “My father became an angel this morning,” Monica Rosales said in announcing his ...
Four detainees at an El Paso immigrant detention center have tested positive for COVID-19, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement reported Monday afternoon. The El Paso cases were among 220 reported nationwide among ICE detainees. That includes ...
El Paso protesters are transforming their public action toolkit in response to COVID-19, finding socially distanced ways to express solidarity and pressure for change. A cacophony of car honks filled the air around the Immigration ...
As he struggled to breathe in a Ciudad Juárez hospital, Raul Rosales and his wife Claudia exchanged messages saying good-bye. Their daughter Monica texted heart emojis and photos of his grandson Matias. “My baby is ...
El Paso restaurant owners have had to take a hard look at how they are responding to decreased sales and changes in food delivery operations in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. It’s also affecting ...
A 70-year-old man was released this week from Del Sol Medical Center after four days of treatment for COVID-19. He received antibiotics, supplemental oxygen and was connected to a cardiac monitor, officials at the East ...
A woman detained at the El Paso Service Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on Montana Avenue, has tested positive for COVID-19, multiple immigration attorneys told El Paso Matters. It is the ...
Note: This has been updated with data as of Tuesday, April 21. The highest COVID-19 infection rates in El Paso County are increasingly concentrated in ZIP codes in the eastern part of the city and ...
Increased mental health stressors and ongoing “stay home” orders during the COVID-19 pandemic are increasing the risk of family violence, experts say. “We tend to think that (home is) the safest place for people to ...
El Paso area farmworkers are transported to worksites in conditions that may make them susceptible to the spread of coronavirus. Farmworkers generally are picked up at a Downtown center and put in vans and trucks ...
As the number of COVID-19 cases approaches 400, evidence is emerging that compliance with strict government mandates and safety suggestions is slowing the spread of the disease in El Paso County. The number of new ...
Chihuahua State health authorities confirmed 11 of the 16 confirmed COVID-19 deaths in Ciudad Juárez are maquiladora factory workers. “We are in constant communication with the maquiladora industry,” said said Dr. Arturo Valenzuela, Chihuahua state ...
The parent companies of El Paso’s private hospitals, faced with increasing financial concerns due to the COVID-19 outbreak, have started furloughing employees and cutting back hours and pay. The Hospitals of Providence, El Paso’s largest ...
Border manufacturers are teaming up in an unusual race to provide life-saving medical supplies and devices during the COVID-19 crisis. The timing couldn’t be more critical. “Our message is simple,” said Cecilia Levine, founder of ...
By Joshua Marin/Special to El Paso Matters Most of us are finding out what people born before 1941 already knew — living through a major, global, historical event is a lot more difficult than it ...
A Texas Health and Human Services Commission call center in El Paso’s Lower Valley has been closed temporarily after an employee tested positive for COVID-19, an agency employee in El Paso said. HHSC spokeswoman Christine ...
El Paso infection rates by ZIP code El Paso public health officials have been providing a daily map of positive test results by ZIP code. But that map doesn’t take into account the widely different population ...
Grupo de Investigación Política y Ciencias de la Salud de El Paso Paseños: estamos en una crisis y necesitamos su ayuda. En las siguientes semanas, es muy posible que ocurra una escasez extrema de recursos ...
By El Paso Health Sciences and Policy Research Group El Pasoans: we are in a crisis and we need your help. In the upcoming weeks, there likely will be an extreme shortage of health-care resources ...
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 ...
In the winter of 1917, fear of a typhus outbreak prompted a quarantine policy along the United States-Mexico border. For over 40 years, this United States border quarantine mandated the forcible bathing of Mexican border-crossers ...
A man in his 80s with underlying health conditions died of COVID-19 in an El Paso hospital on Thursday, the county’s first death in the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Dee Margo said. “We feel very sad ...
One detainee and one employee at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in southern New Mexico have tested positive for COVID-19, Sen. Tom Udall’s office said Thursday. The positive test for a detainee at ...
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By Dr. Luis Fraga, Dr. Mark Lusk, Dr. Nicholas Natividad and Dylan Corbett The novel coronavirus pandemic is teaching us that who gets sick and who recovers often depends on vulnerability. We often think of ...