It goes without saying that a global pandemic is anxiety-inducing. Around the world, people are trying to understand the changing realities of life under the veil of COVID-19. We’re commiserating about it with our friends, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
With federal officials now recommending facemasks as a means of slowing the spread of COVID-19, El Paso designers and seamstresses have begun producing masks for friends and family, or to donate to the medical community. ...
Volunteers and donations are desperately needed by many El Paso organizations in response to COVID-19. With so many El Pasoans homebound for the foreseeable future, there has never been a better time to consider how ...
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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 ...