June 20, 2020 For the fourth time in five days, Texas reported a record number of new coronavirus cases Saturday as the virus continues to surge in one of the first states that allowed businesses to reopen after a weeks-long shutdown meant to slow the pandemic. State health officials credit some of the 4,430 new […]
June 19, 2020 The Dallas Regional Chamber is postponing its annual 2021 meeting indefinitely, citing “ongoing COVID-19 challenges,” the organization said Friday. The event, which draws 1,500 attendees, was planned for Jan. 15 but faces too many uncertainties regarding public health and economic conditions, the DRC said. “We decided that the best course of action […]
June 21, 2020 Dallas County health officials reported 408 new coronavirus cases Sunday and the death of a Dallas woman in her 60s who had been critically ill in a hospital and had underlying health conditions. The new numbers bring the county’s total to 16,845 cases and 314 deaths. Officials also said that of all […]
June 21, 2020 The Trump Administration is planning to severely limit approvals of new H-1B visas. Companies use that type of visa to bring in temporary guest workers to fill specialized roles, and Texas could be the state most affected by the changes. More H-1B visas were issued in Dallas-Fort Worth than anywhere outside of […]
June 20, 2020 A Dallas coalition of community activists and faith leaders is demanding that city and county officials use their “moral imagination” to immediately adopt policies that reverse generations of injustice. The list of 10 demands comes amid weeks of protests sparked by the May 25 death of George Floyd, a black Minneapolis man […]
June 19, 2020 Texas’ unemployment rate fell for the first time since pandemic lockdown measures were implemented in March, according to a Friday release from the Texas Workforce Commission. Unemployment fell from 13.5% in April to 13% in May, providing a glimpse at the effects of Texas’ economic reopening which began May 1. The state […]
June 10, 2020 Drs. Iqra Zakaria, Jonathan Brewer, Danielle Rucker, and Deven Bhatia were more than halfway through their first year of residency at UT Southwestern when the COVID-19 pandemic added a heightened sense of urgency to their on-the-job training. Like other health care workers, the emergency medicine doctors would quickly adjust to a new […]
June 19, 2020 Now surging in Texas, COVID-19 is interrupting our plans again, prompting many businesses to slow their return to a new normal. A month after Texas announced Phase 2 of reopening the economy and a few weeks after starting Phase 3, the state’s number of COVID-19 cases has climbed steadily to over 100,000. […]
June 19, 2020 Dallas County commissioners voted Friday to mandate that businesses in the county must require customers and everyone on premises to wear a mask to contain the spread of COVID-19. Commissioners passed the order — which goes into effect at 11:59 p.m. tonight — 3-2 after a fiery debate. Commissioners Elba Garcia and […]
June 18, 2020 Large music concerts and bars top a widely circulated chart of risky places for novel coronavirus infection. For the Dallas Symphony Orchestra – and other performing arts organizations that depend on filling theaters and concerts halls – a highly contagious, wildly unpredictable and sometimes fatal disease is a major problem. But the […]