EL PASO, Texas — With 13 newly confirmed coronavirus deaths added to the official death toll on Sunday morning, El Paso County has now reached 1,200 fatalities to date during the pandemic. The latest victims ranged in aged from their 40s to 90s and included: 1 woman in her 40s4 men in their 50s1 man
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PORTAGE, Michigan — Freight trucks carrying about 184,275 vials of coronavirus vaccine departed a Pfizer plant in Michigan on Sunday, a landmark moment in the fight against the deadly virus. The combined 189 boxes of vaccine vials are expected to arrive in all 50 states on Monday, and another 3,900 vials are expected to ship
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Saturday reported over 1,800 additional known Covid-19 cases on Saturday as the coronavirus virus showed signs of slowing over the past two weeks. The state reported 1,803 additional known cases and 24 additional deaths, increasing the state’s totals to 118,358 cases and 1,913 deaths, according to the state’s coronavirus
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The nation’s first Covid-19 vaccine will begin arriving in states Monday morning, U.S. officials said Saturday, after the government gave the final go-ahead to the shots needed to end an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. Trucks will roll out Sunday morning as shipping companies UPS and FedEx begin delivering Pfizer’s
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Department of Public Health reported another significant climb in the death toll due to Covid-19, announcing 28 more deaths on Saturday morning. The latest victims included: 2 men in their 50s2 women in their 50s4 men in their 60s8 men in their 70s2 women in their 70s7 men
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WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday night issued an emergency use authorization for Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine, calling it safe and strongly protective. The EUA allows shipping to begin, but shots still can’t be administered until the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meets and recommends the vaccine. Dr. Amanda
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials said Friday that another 43 people in the state had died due to Covid-19 complications, marking the second highest daily death toll since the pandemic began. Nearly two-thirds of the latest fatalities involved people in the 70s or older, while one of the deaths was a McKinley County
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico on Friday evening approved emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTec coronavirus vaccine, becoming the fourth country to do so. Mexico’s medical safety commission approved its’ use, which had already been cleared in Britain, Canada and Bahrain. Assistant Health Secretary Hugo López-Gatell said Mexico is set to receive 250,000 doses of the
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EL PASO, Texas – A teenager who spent more than a month in intensive care at an El Paso hospital while battling Covid-19 was released Friday to cheers from her health-care team. Jennifer Morales spent 39 days in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Providence Children’s Hospital. Jennifer was wheeled out past a team
Continue Reading WASHINGTON, DC — The White House on Friday told the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration to submit his resignation if the agency does not grant emergency use authorization of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine by day’s end. That’s according to a report by the Washington Post, which quotes sources as saying the FDA has
Continue Reading The FDA has informed Pfizer it intends “to proceed towards an authorization” of the manufacturer’s Covid-19 vaccine, the US Health and Human Services Secretary told ABC on Friday, as the country is deep into a worsening health crisis. The statement also comes a day after an FDA panel recommended the agency grant an emergency use
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced 38 new coronavirus-related deaths Friday. The health department said the deaths did not occur on the same day, rather they happened over the past four months and the cause of death due to Covid-19 was just confirmed. It brings the death toll
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso Medical Research Institute is looking to sign up volunteers for a new Covid-19 antibody treatment that could provide protection from the virus for several months. The research clinic will begin signing up volunteers next week. “[The treatment] consists of two, long-acting antibodies that can last and give immunity
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UPDATE: A U.S. government advisory panel on Thursday decided to endorse large-scale use of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine to help conquer the outbreak that has killed close to 300,000 Americans. The advisory group, in 17-4 vote with one abstention, concluded that the shot appears safe and effective against the coronavirus in people 16 and older. The
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EL PASO, Texas — During a briefing Thursday on El Paso’s Covid-19 situation, County Judge Ricardo Samaniego said he was “assessing the possibility of a partial curfew” for the Christmas and New Year’s holiday period aimed at once again targeting social gatherings. His remarks came on what was the deadliest day of the pandemic for
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Thursday called New Mexico’s Covid-19 hospitalization numbers “very frightening” as she and other state officials issued a new public health order limiting non-essential surgeries. At an afternoon briefing, the governor also indicated that the first doses of virus vaccine from drug maker Pfizer are expected
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced 44 new coronavirus-related deaths Thursday morning, a single-day record for the county. The death toll now stands at 1,121 in El Paso, but there are over 600 deaths currently under investigation – so that fatality count is expected to rise in the
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EL PASO, Texas — The freezers are in place to hold Covid-19 vaccines at University Medical Center. Now, they just need their share of the vaccine, which is scheduled to arrive by Dec. 16. Our ABC-7 cameras were permitted to get a close up look at one of the freezers. (Take a look in the video
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego has endorsed the purchase of a $150,000 germ killing robot as a means to help keep government facilities safe and get employees back to work. The county may soon be acquiring an important new tool in the ongoing fight against the coronavirus. “I think we could
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AUSTIN, Texas — For a second day this week, hospitalizations of people with the coronavirus in Texas topped 9,000, state health officials said Wednesday. The Texas Department of State Health Services said 9,053 were hospitalized Wednesday. The state reported 9,028 hospitalizations the day before. Last week marked the first time Texas surpassed a daily count of 9,000 hospitalizations
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico on Wednesday reported an additional 1,759 Covid-19 cases, bringing the statewide total to nearly 113,000 since the pandemic began. Of Wednesday’s new cases, 119 of those were in Doña Ana County for a pandemic total just two shy of 15,000. That means Doña Ana County has seen 13%
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WASHINGTON, DC — Still spinning their wheels on Covid-19 relief, lawmakers grabbed a one-week government funding extension on Wednesday that buys time for more talks — though there is considerable disagreement over who is supposed to be taking the lead from there. Amid the uncertainty, the U.S. House easily passed a one-week government-wide funding bill
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico – The New Mexico Department of Health has announced 33 additional Covid-19-related deaths in Tuesday’s delayed report on virus case data that was triggered by a computer glitch. Seven of those deaths occurred in southern New Mexico’s Doña Ana and Luna counties and included: 3 women in their 60s from Doña Ana County, all
Continue Reading TORONTO, Canada — Canada’s health regulator has approved Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine. Health Canada posted on it is website Wednesday that the vaccine made by U.S. drug-maker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech is authorized. Canada is set to receive up to 249,000 doses this month and 4 million doses of the vaccine by March. The Canadian government
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Department of Public Health announced 20 new coronavirus-related deaths on Wednesday morning, with the victims ranging in age from their 40s to over 100. The death toll now stands at 1,077 in El Paso County. In addition to the confirmed deaths, there are 621 other deaths that
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — The coronavirus vaccine is making its way to El Paso. Once the shots get here, they need to be stored in in a very cold environment that cannot be achieved through a normal freezer. Vaccines can be stored in specialized freezer or through using dry ice. Ivan Vicencio, sales director at
Continue Reading SANTA FE, New Mexico — Top health officials say New Mexico has a solid plan in place to stretch hospital and health care resources as far as possible before having to ration care, but they also warned Tuesday that the state could face that prospect if the coronavirus pandemic worsens. Confirmed infections in New Mexico are close
Continue Reading CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico plans to being vaccinating its people against Covid-19 at the end of the third week of December, starting with health workers, the government announced Tuesday. The word came as Mexico has reported 1.18 million confirmed infections and at least 110,074 virus deaths, though both are acknowledged to be under-counts. The total number
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso County is following in the footsteps of the Ruidoso Municipal School District in taking a different approach to fighting the Covid-19 pandemic. On Wednesday, the county will begin deploying several Xenex germ-zapping robots to disinfect facilities including the El Paso County Courthouse, Juvenile Probation Department, Ascarate Park, County Attorney
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WILMINGTON, Delaware — President-elect Joe Biden is promising to distribute a coronavirus vaccine to 100 million people during the first three months of his incoming administration, pledging “100 million shots in the first 100 days.” At an event from Delaware to introduce his pandemic response team on Tuesday, Biden laid out his top three priorities
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