
WHO confirms there’s ’emerging evidence’ of airborne transmission of coronavirus
The World Health Organization confirmed there is “emerging evidence” of airborne transmission of the coronavirus following the…
Continue ReadingThe World Health Organization confirmed there is “emerging evidence” of airborne transmission of the coronavirus following the…
Continue ReadingEL PASO, Texas– El Paso Community College trustee Bonnie Soria Najera, who lost both her parents to Covid-19, was released from the hospital Tuesday…
Continue ReadingThere were two notable announcements in the fight against HIV this week at AIDS 2020, the 23rd International AIDS Conference — a possible case…
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…
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