Coronavirus positivity rate: What the term means
From social distancing and self-quarantine to a new take on sheltering in place, our coronavirus vocabulary expands almost daily. Lately, a lot of…
Continue ReadingFrom social distancing and self-quarantine to a new take on sheltering in place, our coronavirus vocabulary expands almost daily. Lately, a lot of…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — Masks for students and teachers will be mandatory in counties with more than 20 reported Covid-19 cases when public schools resume…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — An order being prepared by El Paso City-County Health Authority Dr. Hector Ocaranza would prohibit any in-person classes by local…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — The New Mexico State Tourism Department has published notices informing residents of neighboring states that visitors…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — Texas surpassed 10,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day for the first time, crossing a sobering milestone rarely seen since the…
Continue ReadingSANTA FE, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials reported an additional 221 Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, bringing the statewide total of…
Continue ReadingPrescriptions for the anti-malarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine skyrocketed in the US from February to March, a time when the drugs,…
Continue ReadingRemember “Typhoid Mary” Mallon? She was an Irish immigrant who worked as a cook for New York families and contaminated at least 122…
Continue Reading“Operation Warp Speed,” the federal government’s Covid-19 vaccine program, on Tuesday announced the largest government Covid-19…
Continue ReadingThe US Environmental Protection Agency has approved two Lysol products as effective against the novel coronavirus when used on hard, non-porous…
Continue ReadingWACO, Texas — Despite hopes for relief this summer, the US still is battling the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, so much so that across…
Continue ReadingThe cough has come back, without warning and seemingly for no reason; so has the fatigue. True, neither are as debilitating as when I had the actual…
Continue ReadingLAS CRUCES, New Mexico — More student-athletes at New Mexico State University have tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said Tuesday. Over…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — For the first time since Friday, the El Paso Department of Public Health reported new coronavirus deaths. Four Covid-19…
Continue ReadingRefusing to wear a face mask during the Covid-19 pandemic should be as socially unacceptable as drunk-driving, or driving without using a seat belt,…
Continue ReadingIn the span of a week and a half, the number of coronavirus cases in the United States has doubled, yet officials are saying this is still the first…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Wearing a mask in hot summer months can be uncomfortable, but according to a local healthcare leader, it’s an action…
Continue ReadingAn antibody cocktail is now beginning late-stage clinical trials to evaluate the drug’s ability to prevent and treat coronavirus infection. The…
Continue ReadingSo, about masks — they do next to nothing if you don’t wear them properly. Yep, even the cloth coverings touted as the best thing since…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — Officials at the University Medical Center of El Paso told ABC-7 they are witnessing a surge of serious illness after confirming…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — Former El Paso congressman and prominent Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke called on Republican Gov. Greg Abbott to resign, saying his…
Continue ReadingAUSTIN, Texas — Hospitalizations across Texas have more than doubled in the last two weeks, rising to 8,698 people in hospitals on Monday. Texas…
Continue ReadingLAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Las Cruces City Council on Monday evening voted 7-0 to keep in effect Mayor Ken Miyagashima’s emergency proclamation on…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — It’s a diagnosis no one wants to get, but that 7,400 El Pasoans have already received in the form of a positive test for the…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — Citing a “steep rise” in Covid-19 cases in the El Paso community, Bishop Mark Seitz is rolling back some of the provisions in Phase…
Continue ReadingLAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New Mexico health officials reported an additional 253 coronavirus cases on Monday, with a third of those new infections…
Continue ReadingA gut-wrenching experience. Butterflies in your stomach. Many of us instinctively feel the connection between our gut and our brain. That connection…
Continue ReadingMatthew McConaughey got straight to the point in a new video posted on social media over the weekend. (Scroll down to end of article to see the…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — Mass testing at El Paso County jails has revealed 174 Covid-19 cases among inmates, Sheriff Richard Wiles said Monday. The sheriff…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas — El Paso City Council by unanimous vote on Monday extended the city’s emergency coronavirus declaration for another month. The virus…
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