Cover illustration by Ana Gaby Becerra UPDATE: Some of this information has been updated with data through Monday, May 4. Friday marks seven weeks since El Paso’s first reported COVID-19 case. It’s also the day ...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 in Central El Paso’s 79903 ZIP code doubled in the past week, giving the area the second highest infection rate in the county, an El Paso Matters analysis shows. The ...
Six women will be freed from an El Paso immigration detention facility on Wednesday, five days after they alleged that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was putting them in danger to COVID-19 The six detainees filed ...
UPDATE: Sammy Carrejo, the organizer of the “Open Texas” rally, posted video on Facebook on Monday of police officers coming to his house to issue him a citation for not having a required permit and ...
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 ...
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has temporarily closed a second El Paso call center because a worker tested positive for COVID-19, El Paso Matters has learned. Wayne Salter, HHSC’s deputy executive commissioner for ...
UPDATE: As of Monday, April 27, ICE has reported that seven detainees at the El Paso Processing Center have tested positive for COVID-19. Six asylum seekers detained in El Paso are suing Immigration and Customs ...
A leading international science and technology company will assist the El Paso region in efforts to slow COVID-19 infections and improve preparations for impacts of the disease, officials announced on Thursday. Battelle, a nonprofit company ...
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’s Tigua Indians have suffered another major defeat in their decades-long efforts to conduct gambling at their Speaking Rock Entertainment Center. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled April ...
Four detainees at an El Paso immigrant detention center have tested positive for COVID-19, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement reported Monday afternoon. The El Paso cases were among 220 reported nationwide among ICE detainees. That includes ...
A woman detained at the El Paso Service Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility on Montana Avenue, has tested positive for COVID-19, multiple immigration attorneys told El Paso Matters. It is the ...
Note: This has been updated with data as of Tuesday, April 21. The highest COVID-19 infection rates in El Paso County are increasingly concentrated in ZIP codes in the eastern part of the city and ...
As the number of COVID-19 cases approaches 400, evidence is emerging that compliance with strict government mandates and safety suggestions is slowing the spread of the disease in El Paso County. The number of new ...
A Texas Health and Human Services Commission call center in El Paso’s Lower Valley has been closed temporarily after an employee tested positive for COVID-19, an agency employee in El Paso said. HHSC spokeswoman Christine ...
El Paso infection rates by ZIP code El Paso public health officials have been providing a daily map of positive test results by ZIP code. But that map doesn’t take into account the widely different population ...
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 ...
A man in his 80s with underlying health conditions died of COVID-19 in an El Paso hospital on Thursday, the county’s first death in the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Dee Margo said. “We feel very sad ...
One detainee and one employee at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in southern New Mexico have tested positive for COVID-19, Sen. Tom Udall’s office said Thursday. The positive test for a detainee at ...
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 ...
National Guard soldiers have been assigned to help El Paso’s food bank in the face of overwhelming demand caused by job losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. “We have been awarded 109 Guardsmen assigned to us ...
El Paso’s Catholic bishop and immigrant advocates are calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release nonviolent detainees during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Faith and reason tell us that the right thing to do right now ...
More than 19,000 people in the El Paso area have filed new claims for unemployment compensation in the three weeks since government began strict limits on movement to slow the spread of COVID-19. Workforce Solutions ...
Four U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees in the El Paso area have tested positive for COVID-19, the agency says in data recently made public. CBP had said previously it would not make public the ...
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 ...
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in El Paso is growing at a rate that doubles almost every three days. I shared some mathematical models recently that showed the alarming numbers we could face if ...
UPDATE: El Paso reported 96 COVID-19 cases on Friday, nearly doubling the 50 reported on Tuesday. That continues the rapid doubling rate El Paso has experienced since the first case was reported March 13. I’m ...
El Paso parks will close at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday as city and county leaders take more stringent steps to control the spread of COVID-19. The new order was announced as the number of positive tests ...
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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 ...