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 ...
Updated 7:12 p.m. May 17: Revised with additional information. Close to 50% of Texans age 12 and older had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as of May 17, according to the state’s ...
As El Paso is facing the worst COVID-19 outbreak among major U.S. cities and with the flu season looming, a local infectious disease expert is urging the community to get the flu vaccine by this ...
Although COVID-19 is the concern for many parents as children prepare to return to classrooms in the coming weeks, the threat of influenza also looms, an El Paso pediatrician says. Unlike the novel coronavirus, a ...
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