Governor Greg Abbott announced today the Texas Division of Emergency Management and City of Amarillo will launch a new COVID-19 therapeutic infusion center in Amarillo.
Texas Tech Physicians OB/GYN says they still have a lot of patients coming in saying they do not want to get the vaccine because they believe it causes infertility.
The Texas Tech University Health Science Center Office of Global Health will virtually host, “Vaccine hesitancy and science denialism in social media, marital arts and fitness subcultures,"
As COVID cases continue to rise in our area, Northwest Surgical Hospital is using new technology in an effort to keep patients out of main hospitals to protect them from the virus.
Two primary anchors of the government’s COVID protection package are ending or have recently ended. Starting Monday, an estimated 8.9 million people will lose all unemployment benefits. A federal eviction moratorium already has expired.
Starting today, the Amarillo VA Health Care System has changed their visitation policy and are asking patients to refrain from bringing visitors into its clinics
Pandemic trauma haunts health care workers, with the delta surge some local hospitals are seeing health professionals show symptoms of post-traumatic stress.
Beginning Monday, Aug. 30, the Amarillo VA Health Care System is asking patients to refrain from bringing visitors to the clinics, except for a caregiver. These clinic locations include Amarillo, Childress, Clovis, Dalhart and Lubbock.
Governor Abbott has issued an Executive Order maintaining the current policy that prohibits the mandating of any COVID-19 vaccinations by any government entity in the state of Texas.
The Food and Drug Administration says it has received multiple reports of patients hospitalized after taking ivermectin, an anti-parasite drug commonly used in horses, to treat or prevent COVID-19.
The Mississippi Poison Control Center sent out a health alert Friday warning health leaders of potential toxicity related to a drug used to deworm livestock that some are using to treat and prevent COVID-19.
Area doctors urge the public to help ease a medical system at critical capacity as over a dozen people have died from COVID-19 in Amarillo hospitals since mid-August.
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the state of New Mexico will temporarily re-implement a statewide requirement that face masks be worn in all public spaces regardless of vaccination status.
The Amarillo Public Health Department said they will be begin offering third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, and only those with certain health conditions are eligible.
Warning of tough days ahead with surging COVID-19 infections, the director of the National Institutes of Health said Sunday the U.S. could decide in the next couple of weeks whether to offer coronavirus booster shots to more Americans this fall.
The U.S. is now averaging about 650 deaths a day, increasing more than 80 percent from two weeks ago and going past the 600 mark on Saturday for the first time in three months.
Job postings that list COVID-19 vaccination as a requirement shot up 34% in the first week of August compared to the month before according to jobs site Indeed.com.
The Hereford Regional Medical Center is experiencing limited abilities to transfer severely ill and injured patients to larger hospitals in other part of the state due to the surge of COVID-19 cases and hospitalization.
In an effort to reach communities they believe have been overlooked, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) started reaching out to local places of worship to provide vaccines to interested members.
