March 31, 2021 Pfizer announced Wednesday that its COVID-19 vaccine is safe and strongly protective in kids as young as 12, a step toward possibly beginning shots in this age group before they head back to school in the fall. Most COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out worldwide are for adults, who are at higher risk […]
March 30, 2021 Dallas County reported 12 more COVID-19 deaths and 281 new coronavirus cases Tuesday. The latest victims were all in their 50s or older. Six were men and six were women, and all but one had underlying high-risk health conditions. Four of the victims were Dallas residents, three lived in Irving, two were […]
March 30, 2021 Made possible by a three-year, $750,000 grant from the PepsiCo Foundation, the Women’s Workplace Readiness Initiative is the latest project of Southern Dallas Thrives, a program launched by a partnership between United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, The PepsiCo Foundation, and Frito-Lay North America. Southern Dallas Thrives was created to better the region’s […]
March 30, 2021 American Airlines is restarting $205 million in mothballed projects at DFW International Airport that it delayed during the company’s financial crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic. Fort Worth-based American put more than $1 billion in projects on hold for 2020 and 2021 as the pandemic sapped the airline’s financial flexibility last spring. […]
March 29, 2021 Medical experts, the Center for Disease Control and the state of Texas say that all adults, regardless of citizenship status, can get the COVID-19 vaccine. The sooner people who want the vaccine are immunized, the sooner there will be a sense of normalcy. Immigrants, both documented and undocumented, are part of that […]
March 30, 2021 Once you get your first dose of the vaccine, you’ll be issued a vaccine card. You’ll want to keep it in a safe place because it could be the key to getting into the places you need to go in the future. The vaccine card you’re issued when you get a vaccine […]
March 29, 2021 This month marks the one-year anniversary of COVID flipping restaurants inside out. Dining rooms and bars closed. When Texas felt like reopening businesses again, food sector employees strapped themselves into a rollercoaster of protocols that seemed to rotate like daily menu specials. Last spring we checked with workers on Dallas’ food front […]
March 29, 2021 The state launched a new website Monday that will help people search for a shot across different COVID-19 vaccine providers, but only a few places in North Texas are participating. The announcement comes as Texas expands vaccine eligibility to anyone 16 and older. Through the newly created Texas Public Health Vaccine Scheduler, […]
March 30, 2021 A new coalition backed by PepsiCo and Frito-Lay hopes to reverse the pandemic’s unequal impact on working moms and put hundreds back into the workforce over the next three years. PepsiCo and its Plano-based subsidiary Frito-Lay are partnering with nonprofits United Way of Metropolitan Dallas and CitySquare and Dallas College to train […]
March 29, 2021 American Airlines expects to “reactivate most of its aircraft in the second quarter” after seeing a major increase in bookings that has brought business back to near pre-pandemic levels. Fort Worth-based American, which lost more than $8.9 billion last year as the air travel industry reeled from the COVID-19 pandemic, gave a […]