UK regulator approves Oxford/AstraZeneca virus vaccine
LONDON, England — UK regulators have approved the use of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, which is cheaper and easier to…
Continue ReadingLONDON, England — UK regulators have approved the use of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, which is cheaper and easier to…
Continue ReadingThe US set two more devastating Covid-19 records as it counted down the hours to the end of what has been a calamitous year for the nation. On…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso health officials announced 26 new coronavirus-related deaths Wednesday morning, along with 267 new cases. The…
Continue ReadingMany of the ideas and metaphors in popular culture about how the human brain works don’t stand up to scrutiny. That’s a prevailing theme…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued new coronavirus vaccine guidance for those with certain…
Continue ReadingYes, 2020 was largely a dumpster fire. No one blames you for wanting to ring in the new year. But celebrating the wrong way could lead to months of…
Continue ReadingA Colorado man has the variant of the coronavirus from the United Kingdom that health officials say is more transmissable than other strains of the…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — An El Paso school teacher who made a viral video two years ago of her first-graders greeting one another has died of Covid-19. Word…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — Texas hit a new record of Covid-19 hospitalizations on Tuesday, with more people now hospitalized for the virus than at any other…
Continue ReadingWASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Treasury Secretery Steven Mnuchin said direct payments to Americans may begin to be deposited as early as Tuesday night. These…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials on Tuesday reported an additional 1,221 confirmed infections, bringing the statewide total to…
Continue ReadingThe United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services issued new dietary guidelines, which include…
Continue ReadingELBERT COUNTY, Colorado — According to ABC News, a Colorado man is believed to be the first known case of the highly infectious Covid-19 variant in…
Continue ReadingThe number of patients hospitalized across the US with Covid-19 is the highest it’s ever been — and at this rate health experts warn some…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The El Paso Health Department reported one new coronavirus-related death Tuesday morning. Health officials said the victim…
Continue ReadingIf you’re feeling weary as 2020 comes to an end, you may be in need of some relaxation. Let’s face it: This year has been a challenge for…
Continue ReadingDespite warnings from public health officials, millions of Americans traveled over the Christmas holiday. The US Transportation Security…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — El Paso County data from late November shows traffic at gyms increased as coronavirus cases dropped. Between November 16 and…
Continue ReadingAt one Los Angeles hospital there are five tents outside, one serving as a waiting room. So many patients are coming into Martin Luther King Jr.…
Continue ReadingNovavax on Monday announced the start of the Phase 3 trial of its Covid-19 vaccine in the United States and Mexico. It is the fifth company to launch…
Continue ReadingWe teach kids not to do it. It’s unsanitary. It’s just plain gross to see. Let’s be real, though. Most of us pick our noses —…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — One of the Borderland’s most prominent experts on infectious diseases has contracted Covid-19. Dr. Ogechika Alozie, the co-chair of…
Continue ReadingIn an instant, nursing director Chelsey Earnest can recall the worst day at work she has ever had. Sometimes it comes back without her trying to…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — It was last Wednesday when the city of El Paso received their Covid-19 vaccine for the at-risk populations. The next day, the…
Continue ReadingWhen China first reported cases of coronavirus to the World Health Organization on December 31, 2019, it was described as a mysterious new strain of…
Continue ReadingUPDATE: WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S. House has voted to increase Covid-19 relief checks to $2,000, meeting President Donald Trump’s demand for…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico is seeing its daily Covid-19 case totals decline, but health officials have been worried about whether the…
Continue ReadingWhile the coronavirus pandemic continued to surge throughout the summer and fall, federal government officials repeatedly offered a ray of hope:…
Continue ReadingMore people traveled through US airports on Sunday than any other day this pandemic, setting the stage for waves of new infections across the…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — Incoming El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser has now lost a second family member to Covid-19. Word of his older brother’s death comes just…
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