COVID-19 – Southwest Journalist

Jack Campise talks with his mother, Beverly Kearns, through her apartment window at the Kimberly Hall North nursing home, May 14, in Windsor, Connecticut. The coronavirus has had no regard for health care quality or ratings as it has swept through nursing homes around the world, killing efficiently even in highly rated care centers. Preliminary research indicates the numbers of nursing home residents testing positive for the coronavirus and dying from COVID-19 are linked to location and population density — not care quality ratings.

Nearly 26,000 nursing home COVID-19 deaths reported (Gallery)

June 1, 2020

A dining room sits empty, wwooden chairs stacked upside down on top of the tables.

Texas sales tax revenue declines

June 1, 2020

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Congo faces 2nd Ebola outbreak in northern province (VIDEO)

June 1, 2020

Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves to supporters

Mexico president begins ‘new normal’ amid pandemic

June 1, 2020

Texas A&M

Texas A&M System to offer some on-campus classes in fall

May 31, 2020

A Saudi worshipper wears a white face mask and gloves as he prays dawn prayers at al-Mirabi Mosque in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia on May 31.

Holy sites, places of worship reopen in Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem (Gallery)

May 31, 2020

A sign for a church in Clay County's Henrietta, Texas proclaims no service on May 8. Clay County Judge Mike Campbell accepted a mobile testing site for COVID-19 when it was offered. Like many of North Texas’ rural counties, social distancing comes naturally to Clay County, where about 11,000 people are spread out across roughly 1,100 square miles.

Rural Texas counties may have fewer cases, less tests (Gallery)

May 31, 2020

Hwang Seungwon

In virus-hit South Korea, AI monitors older adults

May 31, 2020

A line of people in a school hallway at a evacuation center

States to update hurricane plans for the coronavirus

May 31, 2020

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy announces regulations for travelers amid pandemic.

Alaska requires testing for travelers, extends quarantine

May 30, 2020

A worker stands ready to clean at the city-owned waterpark in Grand Prairie, Texas on Friday, May 29, 2020. Water parks in Texas were allowed to reopen Friday at 25% occupancy, though some are choosing to remain closed.

Despite eased Abbott restrictions, some Texas waterparks remain closed

May 30, 2020

Two teachers in a school library

Schools nationwide brace for budget cuts from new financial crisis

May 30, 2020

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