El Paso health official urges public to disinfect high-touch surfaces, phones
EL PASO, Texas — While washing hands is important to stopping the spread of germs, it can be just as important to clean and disinfect the surfaces…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — While washing hands is important to stopping the spread of germs, it can be just as important to clean and disinfect the surfaces…
Continue ReadingThe number of coronavirus cases in the United States keeps jumping each day by the hundreds, pushing health care officials and political leaders to…
Continue ReadingAs the coronavirus death toll rises and quarantine forces Americans into lockdowns, details on patients killed by the virus are slowly trickling in.…
Continue ReadingARLINGTON, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott said he would make an announcement Thursday about the potential statewide closure of gyms, bars and…
Continue ReadingSANTA Fe, New Mexico — New Mexico confirmed a coronavirus infection that has no apparent link to travel as the governor took new steps Wednesday to…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — ABC-7 has been taking calls and emails from both Sun Metro riders, as well as drivers, saying more needs to be done to…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — Restaurants that remain open across the city of El Paso are bracing for the worst, but trying to keep a positive outlook. Right…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — University of Texas at El Paso students living on campus are being asked to find another place to live due to coronavirus concerns.…
Continue ReadingThe novel coronavirus seems to hit health care workers harder than others who contract the disease, but it’s unclear why, according to disease…
Continue ReadingThe coronavirus driving the current pandemic can live on plastic and stainless steel surfaces for up to three days, researchers say in a study…
Continue ReadingA lawyer who’s been tied to a cluster of coronavirus cases in hard-hit New Rochelle, New York, appears to be recovering from the illness, his…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — The City of El Paso announced that it is closing animal services, recreation center, libraries, museums and the El Paso Zoo to…
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump said during Wednesday’s White House press briefing that he will be invoking the Defense Production Act to help make up…
Continue ReadingFrance’s health ministry has suggested that popular anti-inflammatory painkillers such as ibuprofen could worsen the effects of the…
Continue ReadingYou probably already play card and board games with the children in your care, to some degree. It’s a fun, shared activity to break up a day…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a House-passed coronavirus relief package that includes provisions for free…
Continue ReadingTwice as much food as previously estimated — or a third of all food available for human consumption — is wasted, with people in wealthier…
Continue ReadingA retirement community in Louisiana has 12 residents who have tested positive for coronavirus, and several others are awaiting their test results in…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — Managing dual health and economic crises, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will invoke a federal provision that…
Continue ReadingAustralian Prime Minister has warned people to “stop hoarding,” as shoppers across the country empty supermarket shelves amid rising…
Continue ReadingDozens of people from their 50s to their 90s have died in the United States after contracting the novel coronavirus and the death toll continues…
Continue ReadingThe Justice Department announced overnight that it’s closing an additional 10 immigration courts, spread out across the country, through April…
Continue ReadingAs the United States struggled to launch testing for the novel coronavirus using kits developed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,…
Continue ReadingNeal Browning and Jennifer Haller are stepping up in a big way to help researchers find a vaccine to combat the coronavirus pandemic. The two are in…
Continue ReadingAs the nation shuts down and loved ones huddle to weather what may well be weeks of coronavirus-induced isolation, family tensions are rising. Like a…
Continue ReadingThe coronavirus pandemic has opened the door for Medicare patients to have access to telehealth, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)…
Continue ReadingJenny, a 29-year-old woman in Seattle, nursed a latte on her date with a man she’d met on the dating app Bumble. With coronavirus cases…
Continue ReadingWest Virginia became the 50th state to report a case of the deadly novel coronavirus when Gov. Jim Justice announced the first positive test result…
Continue ReadingEl PASO, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott spent over an hour Tuesday speaking with top hospital administrators and CEO’s from El Paso and beyond on…
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