May 14, 2020 Dallas County could see 800 new COVID-19 infections each day by early July if people continue interacting as much or more than they are now, according to new forecasts from disease experts at UT Southwestern Medical Center. The projections come as some businesses have begun operating at limited capacity and gyms and […]
May 14, 2020 American Airlines relaunched its DFW International Airport to Madrid flight last week, but with an ulterior motive. Besides getting passengers to continental Europe, it needed to use the belly of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to deliver cargo. So the Fort Worth-based carrier relaunched the flight, knowing it wouldn’t be full of passengers, […]
May 14, 2020 The retail chain Buff City Soap is moving its headquarters from Memphis to the Dallas area to take advantage of the city’s centralized location in the U.S. as it aspires to grow into a billion-dollar business. The company has not publicly specified where it’ll locate its headquarters in North Texas or the […]
May 14, 2020 A state appeals court upheld an order by a lower court that allows election officials to temporarily expand mail voting to people whose only qualification is their fear of contracting the coronavirus. On Thursday, the Texas Fourteenth Court of Appeals in Houston ruled 2-1 to keep intact Travis County Judge Tim Sulak’s […]
May 14, 2020 Researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas have designed a 3D-printed ventilator valve that helps patients breathe. The ventilator valves are called positive end-expiratory pressure, also known as PEEP. The disposable parts are used with ventilators to ensure patients’ lungs retain some air and do not collapse when exhaling. A new […]
Nearly 3 million laid-off workers applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week as the viral outbreak led more companies to slash jobs even though most states have begun to let some businesses reopen under certain restrictions. Roughly 36 million people have now filed for jobless aid in the two months since the coronavirus first forced […]
May 14, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic slammed the brakes on the Dallas area economy, halting a decade of robust employment growth, according to a new report by the Dallas Regional Chamber. New unemployment claims originating in the Dallas region totaled 371,000 through April 25, a 1,225 percent increase over the same period a year ago, […]
Dallas will begin offering coronavirus tests Friday to residents who lack transportation and live in five ZIP codes – in southeast and southern Dallas – that have been hot spots for COVID-19. The City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved mobile testing using $660,000 in coronavirus relief funds the city received from the Treasury Department. The […]
To help guide Dallas County residents on how — and when — they can safely return to normal life, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins has turned to a color-coded chart. Created by public health, epidemiology and infectious disease experts, the chart has four risk zones: red, orange, yellow and green. The red zone, which the […]
When big businesses like Shake Shack and the Los Angeles Lakers basketball franchise took millions of dollars’ worth of emergency loans intended for small businesses, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called such borrowing “outrageous,” narrowed eligibility and threatened to hold companies criminally liable if they did not give the money back. But in the last month, […]