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PCCI: High Thanksgiving Mobility Adds To COVID-19 Threat
As local officials begin to see the impact of the Thanksgiving holiday on COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations and a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory committee is set to discuss emergency use authorization of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate, here’s what you need to know today.
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Hockamasks Help Refugees
A couple of Hockaday School students responded to the pandemic by creating a nonprofit and giving it a four-word name that tells perhaps half its story.
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Food Banks May Face Shortages In New Year
Food banks across Texas are projecting food shortages in coming months due to the end of three key federal and state programs that have helped them respond to high demand during the coronavirus pandemic and its accompanying recession.
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County Reports 1,663 COVID-19 Cases, Three More Deaths
As local officials monitor the impact of the recent Thanksgiving holiday and the rollback on business openings and capacity on COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations and look toward upcoming holidays, here’s what you need to know today:
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County Reports 4,176 New Confirmed COVID Cases Over Weekend
A total of 4,176 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus were reported by Dallas County health officials between Friday and Sunday, and an additional 586 probable cases were reported, along with 13 deaths.
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HP Lights Landmark Tree
Like many holiday routines, the lighting of Highland Park’s Landmark Pecan Tree looked different this year, but the new tradition continued.
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Dallas County Reports 2,122 New Positive COVID Cases
As COVID-19 persists and cases continually rise, the Postal Service adopts new strategies to help with the great volume of holiday mail and DART's "Stuff a Bus" event returns to Mockingbird Station in today's bullet points.
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Not All Superheroes Wear Capes
Dr. Amy Ho isn’t a mother herself yet, but she’s a big fan of moms.
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Sustained COVID Hospitalization Increases Trigger Mandatory Rollback
Local and state officials had warned it could happen, but Thursday's COVID-19 hospitalizations officially created the scenario that would trigger a state-mandated rollback for businesses like bars, gyms, and retail stores.
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Dallas Education Foundation Wraps Up Wild Year, Kicks Off Annual Campaign
It’s been a wild year for the reborn Dallas Education Foundation. When it re-launched after dormancy in 2019, nobody could imagine that just a few weeks later, a tornado would immediately spur the organization into action quickly to help the Dallas ISD schools impacted by it.
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Dallas County Reports 1,640 COVID-19 Cases, Three More Deaths
As calls continue from public health officials and local officials to avoid travel and wear masks to control a surge of new cases and hospitalizations, here’s what you need to know today:
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COVID-19 Sends HP Boys to the Bench
Highland Park’s boys basketball team will be sidelined for two weeks due to precautions stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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County Commissioners Warned of Uptick in Asymptomatic Positives
As the state and county are looking at what many experts are calling an uncontrolled surge of COVID-19, the familiar refrain to stay home whenever possible and wear a mask when around people you don’t live with continues unabated. Here are today’s bullet points.
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‘How Am I Going to Feed People?’
When restaurants and shops across North Texas closed last spring when the pandemic hit, Preston Hollow’s Anurag Jain had one prevailing thought.
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Momentous Work Continues Without One Particular Golf Tournament
Canceling a nationally-known, signature fundraiser doesn’t set the preferred tone for celebrating a century of service.
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Dallas County Reports 702 COVID-19 Cases, Five More Deaths
Dallas County Health and Human Services Monday reported 702 new COVID-19 cases--684 confirmed and 18 probable - and five more deaths.
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A Deeper Dive Into COVID Learning Loss
Learning during a pandemic - with mass shutdowns of schools and inequities to access to everything from instructional supports to broadband internet - is uncharted territory.
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Dallas County Reports More Than 4,000 New COVID-19 Cases Over Weekend
A total of 3,822 new confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus were reported by Dallas County health officials Saturday and Sunday, and an additional 463 probable cases were reported, along with 10 deaths.
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Learning Gains Looking Distant As Pandemic Hits Dallas ISD Hard
What happens when a global pandemic hits your city, and students leave for spring break and just never come back?
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Virtual Christmas Cheer
The holidays will look different this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that doesn’t have to mean skipping Christmas cheer for those willing to embrace the virtual.