During 2020 when COVID-19 hit, many businesses were affected, forcing them to shut down, and push events back, including weddings, causing a massive backlog still today.
COVID-19 cases are rising in Amarillo. The Director of the Public Health Department expects this to continue through the coming months, and she encourages vaccination.
The advisers to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention unanimously decided that coronavirus vaccines should be opened to children as young as 6 months.
Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum and TEXAS Outdoor Musical said the show was initially scheduled for June 2 but cast and crew in the show tested positive for Coronavirus.
An Amarillo VA news release said the three health protection levels are low, medium and high, which are based on new COVID-19 cases and percentage of positive tests.
Many workers were laid off or forced to work remotely throughout the pandemic. With business offices now open, people have made career changes and job seekers are wanting better work and pay.
The Food and Drug Administration said it cleared the Eli Lilly drug for adults and adolescent patients with mild-to-moderate cases of COVID-19. Lilly announced work on the treatment late last year after testing revealed that its previous antibody therapy was ineffective against the dominant omicron variant.
Clovis Municipal Schools will not be doing in-person instruction on Wednesday due to “staffing challenges coupled with forecasts of pending inclement weather.”
At the start of COVID-19 in 2020, Amarillo College went to a full tech supported format teaching classes. Now some students don't want to go back to in person classes.
Sterman Young and his wife Virgie have been married for more than 80 years. The couple from Post, Texas both were diagnosed with COVID-19 and have been separated since. After many days apart, they were reunited thanks to the team at Covenant Health.
Nursing homes were the lethal epicenter of the pandemic early on, before the vaccine allowed many of them to reopen to visitors last year. But the wildly contagious variant has dealt them a setback.
COVID-19 Omicron variant is causing some schools in the Panhandle to close its doors. Staffing shortages is one factor out of many for some small schools to keep operating.