El Paso shifted in recent days to something unthinkable just weeks earlier: wait lists are no more and people can visit a walk-up COVID-19 vaccination site. There are more shots than people wanting to get ...
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 ...
Despite the windy Saturday morning, farmworkers waited outside the El Paso County Courthouse entrance to receive their first shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. El Paso-area farmworkers have not been prioritized to receive immunizations by ...
More than half of eligible El Pasoans have now received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, and a third are fully vaccinated. Still, the number of new infections has been stuck at a high ...
Tuesday’s recommendation to suspend the use of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines will have a slight impact on El Paso’s vaccination efforts, potentially making it more difficult to protect hard-to-reach populations. The state ...
This past week proved that El Paso has not escaped the COVID-19 crisis. The number of new COVID-19 cases and deaths increased over the past week, even as more El Pasoans were vaccinated against the ...
After months of waiting for an appointment and a 45 minute bus ride, Verenice De La Mora received the Johnson & Johnson single-shot vaccine at the Border Agricultural Workers Center on March 12. “I was ...
El Paso will receive its largest shipment ever of first dose COVID-19 vaccines this week. The increase in vaccine availability comes as new infections continue to be near the lowest levels in months, though still ...
University Medical Center will take registrations for 4,000 first-dose COVID-19 vaccinations starting at 6 p.m. this evening. Registrations for seniors and educators will be available Thursday. Registrations today can be made at UMC’s website starting at ...
The demand for the COVID-19 vaccine is high, but the limited supply is leading many El Pasoans to drive hundreds of miles for a shot. More than 640,000 El Pasoans are above the age of ...
University Medical Center will take registrations for 5,000 first-dose COVID-19 vaccinations starting at 6 p.m. this evening. Registrations can be made at UMC’s website until all the vaccines are spoken for, which will take only ...
El Paso hit a series of COVID-19 milestones — both encouraging and tragic — in the week that Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he was ending most COVID-19 restrictions in the state. The number of ...
El Paso’s COVID-19 vaccination effort is marked by glaring inequality, with about one in five first vaccines going to people in wealthier West El Paso ZIP codes, according to an El Paso Matters analysis of ...
University Medical Center is opening registration at 6 p.m. Tuesday for 4,000 first doses of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19. People qualified for current vaccination under Texas Department of State Health Services vaccination groups 1A ...
El Paso leads Texas urban counties in getting people vaccinated against COVID-19, but it is lagging some of those counties when it comes to vaccinating one of the groups most vulnerable to complications and death ...
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, ...
The number of new weekly COVID-19 infections in El Paso County reached the lowest levels since the early days of fall, a hopeful indication that we may finally be emerging from one of the country’s ...
By JJ Martinez I wish that it were possible to write a proper rebuttal to Ryan James Solis’ essay “The ethics of prisoner vaccination.” As El Paso continues to struggle with COVID-19 and the disparities ...
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 ...
If we could imagine a line of all the Americans who desire the coronavirus vaccine, where in line are those who are imprisoned? Are they to make up the rear? After healthy and young Americans? ...
The state’s distribution system will slow El Paso’s COVID-19 vaccination progress this week. The slowdown comes as El Paso continues to lead the state’s urban counties in immunizing its population. As the vaccines roll out, ...
I feel fortunate to be among the El Pasoans who have received both the COVID-19 vaccines. But the process being used by the city at its vaccination hub near the airport is deeply flawed and ...
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 ...
South El Paso residents may get a knock on the door from Beto O’Rourke Saturday. The former El Paso congressman is one of dozens of volunteers who will canvas the city’s 79901 ZIP code to ...
COVID-19 continues to spread through El Paso County — which has the second-highest infection rate and 10th-highest death rate among U.S. urban centers — at a dangerously high level. We have had more than 3,300 ...
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 ...
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Almost 60% of eligible El Pasoans have now received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. But getting shots into the arms of people not yet vaccinated will grow increasingly difficult. Even as vaccines ...