Health

Although Texas is one of four states requiring schools to remain open, teachers and other school staff have not been prioritized in the state’s vaccine rollout.

Many undocumented immigrants living in North Texas don’t realize they are eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

This weekend the city of Dallas unveiled its attempt at implementing a mass vaccination and officials subsequently issued apologies for the mess that ensued. Tuesday when the Dallas County Commissioners Court convened for their biweekly meeting, more details were offered on what went wrong, including an explanation for the hour-long…

With new highly infectious COVID-19 variants appearing, public health experts recommend wearing two masks.

Each location of a chain pharmacy, like Walgreens, has to apply to be a vaccine provider. This is to make sure they can handle the storage and administration of the vaccine. Texas Department of State Health Services began its enrollment process for these providers in October. However, Lara M. Anton, a press officer with DSHS, said that many of them didn’t start the enrollment process until the last month.

Tired of the drama and breakdowns in communication, three City Council members schedule a special-called meeting. They say they want the city manager, who everyone reports to and has control over the $2 billion in the general fund, to take over the role of emergency management coordinator.

There’s a slow trickle of vaccines that Dallas County’s commissioners are, in part, responsible for administering to a county of over 2.6 million people. Last week the county took the lead in opening a mega vaccine center at Fair Park, getting it up and running in a mere four days…

City Council members even identified potential locations for the hubs. But the mayor wasn’t having it because they asked the wrong person.

Different variants, besides SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7, have been reported in other parts of the world, but not yet in the U.S.

Multiple registration sites, mixed messages, broken promises and lack of outreach have created frustration with the COVID-19 vaccine rollout. One significant contributor to the confusion came two weeks ago when Texas Gov. Greg Abbott opened the floodgates to Phase 1B, catching county health departments off guard. Abbott read a report…

Saturday marked an all-time high for new cases of COVID-19 in Dallas County. For the first time, positive cases breached 3,000, raising the new daily average to 2,104. About 23% of all emergency room visits are COVID-19 related. UTSouthwestern’s COVID tracking model released on Jan. 7 accurately projected this spike, and…

Dallas County hospitals are filling with COVID-19 patients, causing public health experts to fear medical staff shortages and rationing of care.

One of the top things contributing to mental health concerns was loneliness or isolation, according to a survey conducted by Mental Health America.

Confused by the vaccine rollout? Good, then you’re right on track. On Tuesday morning the Dallas County Commissioners Court convened for their first meeting of the year and discussed vaccinations, where we are now, how we got here and the path forward. As usual for the past nine months, the…

Dallas County residents in Phase 1A and 1B of the state’s distribution plan can now register online for a COVID-19 vaccine.

On the 10th day, the women took off their clothes. It was both an act of protest and a sign of disgust, a rebuke of the north tower guards and staff they believed had been denying them basic care amid a pandemic. “We had to sit there in our sweat…

North Texans in Phase 1B of the state health department’s distribution plan can get vaccinated — if they can find a dose.

The Dallas Police Department has seen a spike in identity theft, but there are plenty of other ways Dallasites are getting conned, swindled and defrauded.

During a Zoom press conference with reporters on Oct. 27, Dallas Cowboys’ defensive coordinator Mike Nolan attempted to explain the inexplicable. Instead, he confirmed 2020. His team of tacklers, rich with high draft picks and big contracts, had two days earlier been repeatedly burned in a 22-point loss to the…

As the region’s COVID-19 rates continue to climb, local leadership is urging people to keep from gathering on New Year’s Eve.

Last week, just as some of North Texas’ front-line healthcare workers got their first dose of relief via Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, their jobs got increasingly taxing. The number of hospital beds they’re tending are either filled to capacity or precariously close to it. A New York Times tracking tool shows that…

Dallas County leadership is working to bolster the public’s trust in getting a coronavirus vaccine.