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  Kanye's Anti-Blackness Doesn't Negate His Mental Health Issues

  July 22 at 4:28 p.m.

  Let's get this out of the way: I am bipolar. I am on medication. I see a psychiatrist regularly. My psychiatrist is Black, and that matters. The first psychologist I regularly saw was white; she saved my life and that matters too. I called both of them Dr. A, and...

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  Mask Mandates Are Working to Curb COVID, New Report Shows

  July 20 at 4 a.m.

  Mask mandates are slowing the spread of the coronavirus in North Texas, a new report shows. Dr. Rajesh Nandy, a biostatistics and epidemiology professor at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, will release the report by Monday. He said his findings indicate that mask mandates are working to...

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  New COVID Cases Soar While Deaths Slow, but Don't Celebrate Just Yet

  July 10 at 4 a.m.

  Coronavirus cases in North Texas continue to soar, setting new record highs nearly every day. Yet some health experts have noticed a surprising trend: a divergence in the rate of additional cases and COVID-related deaths. That shouldn’t be cause for celebration, though, said Dr. Erin Carlson, an associate clinical professor...

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  Jenkins Urges Statewide Safety Requirements in a Letter to Abbott

  June 30 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas County’s new coronavirus cases continues to rapidly climb. June 1, the county counted 220 new cases. Sunday, the number jumped to 570. The disturbing trend prompted Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins to write a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott on Sunday. In it, he urges Abbott to impose statewide...

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  UTSW Researchers Predict 20% COVID-19 Hospitalization Spike Over Next Two Weeks

  June 23 at 4 a.m.

  On Monday, Dallas County's COVID-19 picture got a little darker again. For the first time, the county's Health and Human Services unit announced more than 450 new infections, a more than 10% increase from Dallas County's previous record high. On Friday, Dallas County began requiring businesses to demand that their customers...

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  Music Scene Power Trio Pick Each Other's Brains With a Mental Health Podcast

  June 23 at 4 a.m.

  Looking at Christy Ray, Taylor Nicks and Ryan Nicolaidis, one wouldn’t ascribe them a care in the world. Ray is a successful DJ. Nicks is the lead singer of Atlantis Aquarius, and Nicolaidis is a medical aesthetician. They’re all popular characters in the music scene and could’ve easily started a band...