El Paso County commissioners on Monday approved contributing $275,000 to a partnership that will provide emergency financial assistance to El Pasoans, with a focus on helping people excluded from earlier pandemic stimulus funds. The Woody ...
The good news is that El Paso’s COVID-19 crisis appears to have plateaued. The bad news is it appears the plateau is at pretty high elevation. El Paso reported 1,439 new COVID-19 cases in the ...
Mass testing at El Paso County jails has revealed 174 COVID-19 cases among inmates, Sheriff Richard Wiles said Monday. The sheriff said 155 inmates at the Downtown jail have tested positive, along with 19 at ...
El Paso County reached new highs for weekly COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations last week, creating a deepening public health crisis. Here’s our weekly look at El Paso’s data. Young adults People in their 20s and ...
The El Paso County Elections office has undertaken significant steps to promote safety during upcoming local elections, including added precautions for COVID-19 prevention. Competing statewide rulings regarding voting by mail and conflict over mail-in ballot ...
El Paso is seeing some positive indicators with COVID-19 as hospitalization numbers have shown a slow but consistent decline over the past two weeks. The number of new reported deaths was a five week low. ...
This story has been updated with numbers as of Wednesday, May 20. At least 139 of El Paso County’s COVID-19 infections come from an outbreak at the Rogelio Sanchez State Jail in Far East El ...
We’ve been tracking El Paso County COVID-19 infection rates by ZIP code for several weeks. We’re adding Doña Ana County ZIP codes for a better regional picture. El Paso and New Mexico governments have released ...
El Paso County reported 74 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, the highest daily count yet and a possible ominous sign that many El Pasoans relaxed compliance with social distancing orders over Easter. The county ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Note: This has been updated with Monday’s numbers from the El Paso Department of Public Health. COVID-19 infections are three times higher in the hardest hit areas of El Paso compared to those with relatively ...
Movement around El Paso County has declined sharply in recent weeks as local government implemented emergency orders aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, according to mobility data released by Google. The tech giant published ...
Even people who knew little to nothing about statistical analysis a few weeks ago have come to understand the importance of “flattening the curve” of COVID-19 cases. Basically, it means slowing the growth rate of ...