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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ – Pharmacies in Juárez are facing a run by El Pasoans and other U.S. residents looking to buy hydroxychloroquine, one of the drugs the president has touted as a possible treatment for COVID-19. ...
Workforce Solutions Borderplex has created a stunning series of charts documenting the sudden rise in unemployment in El Paso and Far West Texas as the coronavirus pandemic spreads. The charts break down first-time unemployment claims. ...
El Paso County’s population grew by just over 2,400 people between July 2018 and July 2019, a growth rate of 0.3 percent that continued a seven-year trend of little to no gain, according to new ...
A doctor who practices at West El Paso’s Las Palmas Medical Center has tested positive for COVID-19, hospital officials said Monday. The physician is believed to be the first El Paso health-care provider to test ...
By René Kladzyk/Special to El Paso Matters The effects of COVID-19 related restrictions have been acutely felt by members of El Paso’s music community. With music venue closures and tours and concerts canceled, local musicians ...
The number of positive COVID-19 tests is growing rapidly in El Paso as more people are being tested. These numbers almost certainly understate the actual spread of COVID-19 in El Paso because testing has been ...
In releasing new data showing 40 positive COVID-19 tests on Sunday, the city also provided its first map of where people who have tested positive live. This is more detail than many communities have provided. ...
El Paso Mayor Dee Margo pledged unspecified additional steps Sunday night as public health officials confirmed community spread of COVID-19. “Now that community spread is confirmed, I strongly urge everyone to adhere to the Stay ...
El Paso area rideshare drivers say they have minimal guidance when it comes to protecting themselves against the spread of the novel coronavirus. Many have developed their own systems for trying to keep their vehicles ...
El Paso health officials and their North Texas colleagues have shared information about possible coronavirus exposure during the Conference USA basketball tournaments in Frisco earlier this month. The men’s and women’s basketball teams played in ...
By Stacy Fernández/Texas Tribune El Paso gun stores re-opened Friday within hours of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s nonbinding opinion that cities and counties couldn’t order them closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Several ...
If you have a cough, fever, or shortness of breath, how can you tell if you’ve got COVID-19, a common cold, the ordinary flu, or a bad case of worry? Should you get tested? When ...
El Paso Matters is among the first 50 news organizations in the U.S. and Canada to receive an emergency grant to help with local reporting on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The $5,000 grant ...
CIUDAD JUAREZ — Health authorities in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez pride themselves on working together as a region on a range of public health issues that span the border. But the response to the ...
Government watchdogs failed to conduct thorough investigations into the deaths of two migrant children in the El Paso area in 2018 and gave a false cause of death in its public report on one of ...
UPDATE: An additional 6,116 new unemployment claims were filed the week ending March 27, bringing the two-week total to almost 10,000. In the two weeks prior, just over 600 initial unemployment claims were filed. The ...
By Alain Stephens/The Trace You did it. You just joined the ranks of the millions of Americans who own a gun. I’ve had years of experience handling firearms — as part of my work in the ...
Beginning Wednesday, El Pasoans will be under orders to stay home and nonessential businesses must close their doors, the latest and most extreme measure yet taken to slow the spread of coronavirus. The new order ...
Medical professionals and first responders are relying on the YWCA of El Paso for child-care services while they respond to the coronavirus pandemic. But the agency’s CEO worries how long that can continue as the ...
El Paso’s major hospitals are prohibiting visitors effective Monday as part of the growing effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The county’s three major systems — The Hospitals of Providence, Las Palmas Del Sol ...
By Samantha Vanderslott, University of Oxford The proliferation of fake news about the COVID-19 pandemic has been labelled a dangerous “infodemic”. Fake news spreads faster and more easily today through the internet, social media and ...
El Paso’s Department of Public Health has implemented new restrictions effective Saturday in line with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s executive order earlier in the week. The United States and Mexico limited who will be allowed ...
By Mitchell Ferman and Ross Ramsey/Texas Tribune HOUSTON — Up against a Friday deadline, the broad base of workers in the Texas restaurant industry have asked Gov. Greg Abbott and other officials to waive monthly sales taxes ...
By Margaret Brown Vega and Nathan Craig The COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis. This week communities across the United States, to better ensure public health, continued to pressure local, state, and federal officials ...