Nichole Kruk entered her second trimester of pregnancy just as the pandemic spread across the globe in 2020. Unable to stay home, she worked a customer-facing job where for a while, the only personal protective ...
The omicron variant’s arrival in El Paso has brought the all-too-familiar questions of how to balance risk and quality of life in uncertain times. While there are still unanswered questions about this new COVID-19 variant, ...
12:45 p.m., Jan. 7: This story has been updated to include comment from the Texas Faculty Association. In less than two weeks, El Paso college and university students will be returning to in-person classes despite ...
Rising community spread of COVID-19 has begun to result in staffing shortages in El Paso testing facilities and other government functions. At the city’s COVID-19 testing megasites, 20% of staff are currently out sick with ...
El Paso County saw a fall surge of COVID-19 infections as the delta variant swept through the country. That surge produced our highest number of COVID-19 infections of 2021 — although the situation was not ...
The highly transmissible COVID-19 omicron variant — while not yet confirmed in El Paso — may already be in the area, local infectious disease experts said. Between updates to quarantine guidelines and rising questions about ...
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