Pandemic

Lubbock received nearly 5,000 doses of the first emergency-authorized Pfizer coronavirus vaccine this week. Pulmonologist Dr. Brian Williams was one of…

A nurse at Covenant Medical Center was the first person in Lubbock to receive the emergency-authorized coronavirus vaccine Tuesday.Noe Melendez works in…

On a late November afternoon, masked mourners fill Second Baptist Church in Levelland.“Let’s be honest, none of us want to be here right now. We can think…

From The Texas Tribune: When Amy Jones burst through the doors of the intensive care unit, she found a line of health care workers in the hallway, she…

From Marfa Public Radio:The first wave of coronavirus vaccines will be distributed to hospitals across Texas beginning next week, but Odessa facilities…

From Texas Public Radio: The Food and Drug Administration is meeting publicly today to talk about the first of two COVID vaccines that might get approval…

The data may look better this week, but at Tuesday’s weekly COVID-19 news conference, Lubbock officials said they’re looking at it with “cautious…

During the latest COVID-19 surge in Texas, Lubbock’s region was one of the first to reach a high hospitalization rate set by the state. Forty-five days…

In his first news conference about the pandemic in two months, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott focused on efforts to treat the novel coronavirus and said little…

The first thing Nurse Lona Ashley said she does every shift is check charts to see who she is caring for that day. She pulls medications, puts on her…