By James Revels Lost revenues by small businesses and others can be replaced by grants or loans, but human lives lost cannot. So, the rush to reopen the economy during this continuing pandemic is driven ...
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 ...
El Paso restaurant owners are taking different approaches to opening their doors on Friday after Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to reopen a select number of Texas businesses even as local COVID-19 case numbers keep rising. ...
By Xavier Miranda The pandemic has revealed how corporate influence on our education system has sorely failed our students. Rather than relying on the expertise of educators, who best know the individual needs of our ...
As Texas begins to open up a select number of businesses, spiritual communities across El Paso are still taking precautions around COVID-19 seriously and caring for their members while giving them support and guidance. Parishes ...
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 ...
As El Paso continues to deal with the coronavirus outbreak, area groups and organizations are working together to make sure the homeless population receives proper care and support. The Opportunity Center for the Homeless, located ...
Women held by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in El Paso are expressing growing concern after several detainees tested positive for COVID-19. ICE has confirmed five positive cases but the number of people exposed to the virus ...
Raul Rosales, a supervisor at a Lear Corporation maquiladora in Ciudad Juárez, died in an El Paso hospital of COVID-19 early Tuesday. “My father became an angel this morning,” Monica Rosales said in announcing his ...
El Paso’s iconic independent publishing company Cinco Puntos Press has taken a significant financial hit amid the economic shutdown caused by the spread of the novel coronavirus — and they are asking the community for ...
By Dr. Luis Fraga, Dr. Mark Lusk, Dr. Nicholas Natividad and Dylan Corbett The novel coronavirus pandemic is teaching us that who gets sick and who recovers often depends on vulnerability. We often think of ...
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 ...
El Paso restaurant owners have had to take a hard look at how they are responding to decreased sales and changes in food delivery operations in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. It’s also affecting ...
By Kathy Staudt El Pasoans have tried to communicate with city officials through emails, but their voices are invisible to the broader public. Alas, the mayor and council representatives rarely answer emails. Civic engagement is ...
A 70-year-old man was released this week from Del Sol Medical Center after four days of treatment for COVID-19. He received antibiotics, supplemental oxygen and was connected to a cardiac monitor, officials at the East ...
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 ...
The parent companies of El Paso’s private hospitals, faced with increasing financial concerns due to the COVID-19 outbreak, have started furloughing employees and cutting back hours and pay. The Hospitals of Providence, El Paso’s largest ...
Border manufacturers are teaming up in an unusual race to provide life-saving medical supplies and devices during the COVID-19 crisis. The timing couldn’t be more critical. “Our message is simple,” said Cecilia Levine, founder of ...
By Joshua Marin/Special to El Paso Matters Most of us are finding out what people born before 1941 already knew — living through a major, global, historical event is a lot more difficult than it ...
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 ...
Grupo de Investigación Política y Ciencias de la Salud de El Paso Paseños: estamos en una crisis y necesitamos su ayuda. En las siguientes semanas, es muy posible que ocurra una escasez extrema de recursos ...
By El Paso Health Sciences and Policy Research Group El Pasoans: we are in a crisis and we need your help. In the upcoming weeks, there likely will be an extreme shortage of health-care resources ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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By Jim Ward My name is Jim Ward. I own a restaurant and I am angry. We know this virus is incredibly contagious and that limiting exposure is the best chance we have to keep ...