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Glenn Beck Has COVID Again Along with a Nasty Case of Athlete's Tonsils

Glenn Beck Has COVID Again Along with a Nasty Case of Athlete's Tonsils

COVID-19 Surge Slams Dallas Employees Leaving Hundreds in Quarantine

COVID-19 Surge Slams Dallas Employees Leaving Hundreds in Quarantine

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Dallas ISD Reports Low Teacher Turnover Rate, But Future Uncertain Amid Rise in COVID Cases

By Simone Carter
Jan 6, 2022

Amid the latest surge in COVID-19, Dallas ISD has reported the lowest teacher turnover rate in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Restaurants Continue to Close Due to Sick Staff; More Financial Relief May Be on the Way

By Lauren Drewes Daniels
Jan 6, 2022

As cases of omicron continue to climb, more restaurants are temporarily shuttering. We first reported restaurant closures in New York City, Houston and Philadelphia on Dec. 22 ...
With Omicron Driving COVID Surge, New Testing Sites Opening Up Around Dallas

By Patrick Strickland
Jan 5, 2022

Nearly two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of positive cases in Texas is hitting historic highs thanks to the highly contagious omicron variant. Although some medical experts say the variant could be less lethal than others before it, hospitalizations in Texas this week doubled amid a shortage of...
COVID Patients Are Blaming Candles, and Not Their Noses, For Underwhelming Scents

By Desiree Gutierrez
Jan 4, 2022

As the COVID-19 pandemic enters its third year, it continues to show no mercy on businesses, whether local or corporations.
The Kids Are Getting COVID

By Jacob Vaughn
Jan 3, 2022

Pediatric COVID-19 cases and and subsequent hospitalizations are surging across the country.
As Dallas County's COVID Cases Soar, CDC Launches Relaxed COVID Guidelines

By Michael Murney
Dec 30, 2021

As the omicron variant sweeps across Texas, Dallas County has been hammered with new cases. In just the past 14 days, the rate of positive cases has gone up over 350%. The county averaged more than 1,000 new positive cases per day over the past seven days alone. Dallas’ case...
‘Very Concerned’: Dallas County Raises COVID-19 Risk Level to Red

By Jacob Vaughn
Dec 30, 2021

As COVID-19 cases surge across the country, Dallas County is urging residents to do what they can to slow the spread of the virus.
Texas Runs Low on the Monoclonal Antibody Effective Against Omicron

By Simone Carter
Dec 29, 2021

As COVID-19 cases skyrocket after the Christmas holiday, some infusion centers have run out of monoclonal antibody treatment.
'This is an Absolute Kick in the Grapes': Dallas Restaurants Close Due to Sick Staff

By Lauren Drewes Daniels
Dec 29, 2021

A soft opening is a common term in the restaurant industry; a short period of time when new restaurants essentially beg for forgiveness during the first few ...
No, You Won't Get 'Vaccine AIDS' If You Have Sex With the Vaccinated

By Jacob Vaughn
Dec 29, 2021

People are claiming the COVID-19 vaccines are causing a syndrome similar to AIDS. This isn't true.
As COVID Cases Surge Statewide, Testing Remains Sparse In Dallas County Jail

By Michael Murney
Dec 29, 2021

When Timothy Gutierrez felt a runny nose and sinus congestion coming on about a week ago, he was sure it was COVID-19. Gutierrez, who has been held in Dallas County Jail since mid-November on an alleged probation violation stemming from a previous drug-related charge, noticed many of the inmates coughing and...
'A Blank Canvas That Cannot be Painted': When COVID Presses the Mute Button on Your Tongue

By Danny Gallagher
Dec 27, 2021

The news was quite a shock. When my doctor walked into the room in a full face shield and plastic smock that he wasn't wearing when he left,
UT Southwestern Medical Center Warns COVID-19 Hospitalizations Are Spiking Again in DFW

By Patrick Strickland
Dec 23, 2021

With more than 5,700 coronavirus-related deaths in Dallas County to date, we’re just a couple months shy of the two-year anniversary of COVID-19 in Texas, and earlier this month, the state reported its first case of the new omicron variant. This week, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center warned...
North Texas Experts Fear a 'Perfect Storm' Will Drive Post-Holiday COVID-19 Surge

By Michael Murney
Dec 22, 2021

Dr. Erin Carlson was "horrified" to learn that unvaccinated people had regularly been visiting her 84-year-old father, who suffers from kidney failure and other underlying conditions, without masks. When Carlson, a professor of public health at the University of Texas at Arlington, asked her elderly mother why they'd been allowing...
Voluntary Closures at Restaurants Spread In Major Cities Because of COVID Cases Among Staff

By Lauren Drewes Daniels
Dec 22, 2021

The last two weeks of the year are usually a boon for restaurants and bars. After a year of staffing shortages and many other challenges across the industry ...
Where Have All the Busboys Gone?

By Kristina Rowe
Dec 22, 2021

For former sous chef David Gibson, last Christmas was a good one, considering what he’d endured in the months leading up to it. After 15 years of work in the service industry ...
Keep Them On: Airline CEOs Question Mask Use on Planes, but Experts Disagree

By Simone Carter
Dec 17, 2021

Airline CEOs are questioning masks on planes, but experts worry it could give passengers the green light to ramp up bad behavior.
The Trouble with Take-Out: Orphaned To-Go Orders

By Lauren Drewes Daniels
Dec 14, 2021

On a busy Saturday night at a small Thai restaurant in Austin, the phone was squawking non-stop. A server sat walk-ins, wiped down tables and quelled the ringing while ...
Clay Jenkins Has Been Dallas County Judge Since 2010. Edwin Flores Wants to End That.

By Michael Murney
Dec 10, 2021

Around Texas and beyond, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins has built a public profile for his fight against Gov. Greg Abbott’s approach to combating the coronavirus. Jenkins has called for better protections against the virus, has criticized the state's Republican officials for lax measurements and even evicted J.J. Koch from a Commissioners...
Keep It On: Dallas ISD's Mask Mandate to Stay Until MLK Day

By Simone Carter
Dec 7, 2021

Dallas ISD has announced its mask mandate will remain in place until Martin Luther King Day.

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