'They've Missed So Much Already': North Texas Parents Plan Homecoming Dance After School District Cancels Due To COVID-19
Tickets for the parent-planned dance for students at Northwest High School will go on sale through an app next week.
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Tickets for the parent-planned dance for students at Northwest High School will go on sale through an app next week.
"We're taking this extraordinary step to utilize Cook Children's perioperative RNs in other areas of the hospital, including ICUs," the hospital said in a news release.
Already pushed to the breaking point battling the latest COVID-19 surge, doctors are also busy fighting bad information about the vaccines, especially as it relates to impact on fertility.
After posting on social media that he had contracted COVID-19 and was in ICU asking for prayers, former Dallas Maverick Cedric Ceballos now has good news to report.
Dr. Surendra Barshikar oversees Parkland Hospital's COVID-19 Recovery Clinic where 50 patients are currently being treated on an outpatient basis.
The reason doctors say COVID-19 cases may be peaking is the combination of more people getting vaccinated as well as more people developing antibodies from contracting the virus.
"It's a descriptive term for an individual to generate very high amounts of neutralizing antibodies," Dr. Mohanakrishnan Sathyamoorthy, Chair of Internal Medicine, TCU and UNTHSC.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed nine more lawsuits against the following ISDs for defying Exec. Order 38: La Vega, McGregor, Midway, Waco, Diboll, Lufkin, Longview, Paris and Honey Grove.
Dozens of parents addressed the Lewisville ISD school board Monday night about an issue that wasn't even on the agenda.
The popularity of monoclonal antibody infusions as therapy for mild COVID-19 symptoms is increasing in Fort Worth.
Individuals with earnest religious beliefs or disabilities that interfere with COVID-19 inoculation may be exempt from getting jabbed.
Starting tomorrow, Fort Worth ISD will require all employees, students, parents and visitors to wear a face mask while inside any district building.
"I see it as a pro and con," student Bryanna Marie Garcia said.
President Joe Biden has rolled out a sweeping new plan in the fight against COVID-19. The plan has some of the most wide-reaching rules to date.
The directive requires all staff, parents, students, and visitors to wear protective face masks at all Fort Worth ISD indoor facilities, absent a medical exemption.
With in-person school and athletic events starting back up, these distributions will now be on Wednesday nights at Herman Clark Stadium instead of Friday mornings so more families have access.
The school district is following Gov. Greg Abbott's executive order, leaving mask-wearing at school as an option, not a requirement.
As many school districts around North Texas break records for COVID-19 case count numbers, so do the numbers of parents looking for alternative school options.
MedStar initially set up the infusion clinic for first responders, but began treating people in the community who have a referral from the hospital or from their doctor once they saw the need.
UT Southwestern believes it's likely the impact of in-person schooling, and that the increased hospitalizations reflect the large numbers of individuals who are not yet, or cannot yet be vaccinated.
"On my 10th day in ICU, COVID-19 is officially kicking my but(t), I am asking ALL family, friends, prayer warriors healers for your prayers and well wish for my recovery," Ceballos said on social media.
The Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs says it has distributed more than $750 million in rental and utility assistance to more than 124,000 Texas households impacted by COVID.
Some students will be returning to school from Labor Day weekend to classrooms with new mask mandates in place.
Labor Day Weekend activities are in full swing right now, even with the COVID-19 delta variant continuing to loom large over North Texas and the rest of the country.
COVID-19 cases are surging in schools across North Texas, forcing some districts to return their campuses to online learning.
